Issue - meetings

7.1       The Board considered a report the CCGs asking for support for the CCGs’ Quality Premium Local Measures 2015/16 which relate directly to the East Sussex Health and Wellbeing Strategy and CCG plans.

7.2       The CCGs clarified that although Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG included as a local measure “people who have had a stroke who are admitted to an acute stroke unit within four hours of arrival to hospital” and Hastings and Rother CCG did not, the target would still apply to the whole of the catchment area of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (ESHT) – including the Hastings and Rother area. This allowed Hastings and Rother CCG to set local measures to deal with issues that were particularly serious in its catchment area, such as maternal smoking. The admission time to a stroke unit of four hours was appropriate as it reflected the time it takes to test, diagnose and transfer patients; reflected national standards for stroke care; and was achievable within available resources.

7.3       RESOLVED: The East Sussex Health and Wellbeing Board agreed with and offered its support to the Quality Premium measures which Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG, Hastings and Rother CCG and High Weald Lewes Havens CCG had identified within their plans for 2015/16.