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Integrated Contract Management and Procedures across NHS Wirral CCG and Wirral Counicl

Meeting: 12/11/2019 - Joint Strategic Commissioning Board (Item 38)

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Minutes:

The Assistant Director, Performance and Delivery, introduced the report which gave Wirral Health and Care Commissioning (WHCC) and its Joint Strategic Commissioning Board (JSCB) an update on integrated working which aimed to reduce duplication and costs across Commissioning, Contract Management and Procurement.

 

Details of each of the work streams was given, which were:

·  Integrated Contract Management Meetings

o  Wirral Council (WBC) and Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group (WCCG) had held joint Contract Performance Meetings with the following:

§  Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

§  Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

o  WHCC was in the early stages in agreeing a common approach to Contract Management across WBC and WCCG

·  Integrated approach to Procurement

o  WBC and WCCG were developing an ‘Integrated Commissioning and Procurement Protocol’

The work was underpinned with the development of a single, web based, platform for the whole Commissioning, Procurement and Contract Management process which was planned to be fully operational in quarter 4 2019/20.

 

It was noted that changes in local government and the NHS complicated planning, and joint commissioning needed to be clear which organisation’s guidelines were being worked to.

 

Members commented that joint working within particular teams had provided benefits and that both organisations would continue to remain separated with their own statutory responsibilities.

 

Resolved – That

(1)  the progress around integration of this work area to date be acknowledged.

(2)  it be recognised that at this stage full integration is not possible due to the differing legislative and governance arrangements between Local Government and the NHS.