Issue - meetings

The report provides an overview of the progress to date on the development of the West Yorkshire Joint Forward Plan.

Contact:  Rachel Millson, Senior Strategic Planning and Development Manager

Rachel Millson, provided an update on the West Yorkshire ICB Forward Plan. In summary, the Board was advised that the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, developed an integrated care strategy which was completed in January 2023.   It is a nationally mandated requirement for all Integrated Care Boards to develop a Joint Forward Plan by June 2023, that details how they will deliver upon that strategy.

The Health and Care Plan, supports delivery of the strategy alongside the Joint Forward Plan.  The timescale for the development of the Kirklees Health and Care Plan have been run alongside those for the Joint Forward Plan to ensure triangulation.

A Strategy Design Team was established at the start of last year,  and had representation from across all the five places within West Yorkshire, and also from all the programs of work that are led at West Yorkshire level.  There has been a public engagement and consultation process supported by Healthwatch, and that campaign was undertaken in early 2023, and that helped shape the narrative.  Kirklees has been an active member of those discussions, attending workshops and online events and contributing to the development of the narrative.

The Board was directed to the appended report which included the ICB covenant outlining the national requirements around the need to develop the plan, and what needs to be included in it, and also the process that they have undertaken.  There is also a draft of the plan included, correct as of May 2023.  For the West Yorkshire team, it is an ongoing refining process, and the aim is to sign off the final version of the plan on the 18^th May at their board, and then launch that alongside the Integrated Care Strategy on the 20th of July.

In terms of the ongoing process and keeping that document live, they are advocating that it will be alive document and will reflect changes as they happen.
There will be quarterly improvement events, from which anyone from place and programme can attend, with the first being in August 2023.

RESOLVED:

That Rachel Millson, be thanked for providing an update on the Joint Forward Plan.