The Chief Executive Office of Wirral University Teaching Hospital introduced this report which detailed the review and refreshing of the unscheduled care improvement programme after Wirral was identified as an outlier in national statistics. The programme had been organised into five supporting projects, each with senior responsible owners. The overall objective of the programme was to reduce the number of hospital inpatients with no criteria to reside (NCTR). The NCTR number did show an improvement from April to May but had deteriorated since. The five supporting projects were established and had agreed supporting metrics, which measured their contribution to the reduction in the overall NCTR numbers. The Care Market Sufficiency and Home First projects were on track against their first month target. The target for increasing throughput in virtual wards was not on track against the first month target.

Resolved – That:

(1)  the update be noted

(2)  the programme approach be endorsed.