Issue - meetings

25.1     The Board considered a report providing an update on progress with our integration programme and related areas of system collaboration.

25.2     The Board asked what quantifiable outcomes there are to measure success of the East Sussex Health and Social Care Programme (ESHSCP).

25.3     Vicky Smith, Programme Director - East Sussex Health and Social Care Transformation, said in March 2020 the East Sussex Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) agreed a draft shared outcomes framework with four domains of: population health and wellbeing, quality care and support, experience of local people, and transforming services for sustainability. The work to develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and measures had then been paused due to the focus on the COVID-19 emergency response The Board had also previously been receiving quarterly updates on the progress of the ESHSCP integration programme against a suite of shared KPIs. The intention now is to provide the proposed KPIs and measures for the outcomes framework for 2022/23 at the 1st March 2022 HWB meeting, which will include reinstating the ESHSCP programme and monitoring KPIs.

25.4     The Board asked whether Omicron variant of COVID-19 likely to delay the resumption of the integration programme disrupted by the initial outbreak.

25.5     Vicky Smith said new outbreaks have the potential to disrupt momentum of the integration programme, as the health and social care system will need to ensure a critical focus on operational management and delivery priorities through the winter period. The intention is to continue work in the background on our medium-term shared objectives for integration. Jessica Britton, Executive Managing Director of the East Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), added that everything the health and care system does is focussed on supporting the population’s health and wellbeing and that health and care integration forms part of our ongoing development.

25.6     The Board RESOLVED to:

1) Note our system collaboration and actions required by the current increased needs for services; and

2) Note the continued progress on our shared medium term priority objectives aimed at improving population health, reducing health inequalities and delivering more integrated care