Issue - meetings
Health and Wellbeing Traded Service
Meeting: 17/01/2017 - Cabinet (Item 9)
9 Health and Wellbeing Traded Services 
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Minutes:
Background:
This report provided details of proposals to create a traded service for the delivery of health and wellbeing services. The report gave details of six potential models and recommended the establishment of a Local Authority Trading Company, specifically as a subsidiary of Medway Commercial Group (MCG), enabling the combined team to bid for upcoming health and wellbeing commissioning opportunities in Thurrock, Kent and East Sussex.
The report stated that this company would be a subsidiary of MCG and would be 100% owned by Medway Council, which provided a number of safeguards and mitigated key risks.
The report stated that given the service delivery model for Medway residents was not changing, it was not considered necessary to undertake a Diversity Impact Assessment on the proposals.
An exempt appendix set out the outline business case, options appraisal and detailed business case.
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Decision number: |
Decision: |
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174/2017 |
The Cabinet approved the establishment of a subsidiary of Medway Commercial Group to be called MCG Health and Wellbeing, or a suitable alternative, to commission and deliver public health services as set out in this report, from 1 April 2017. |
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175/2017 |
The Cabinet agreed to delegate authority to the Chief Legal Officer, in consultation with the Leader, the relevant Portfolio Holder(s) and Chair of the MCG Ltd Board to finalise the governance arrangements for the new company and complete any necessary legal requirements and any other arrangements as necessary. |
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The Cabinet noted that the Chief Executive will make the necessary appointments to the new subsidiary board for Health and Wellbeing Services and any other MCG Subsidiary Boards subsequently established under his delegation from Full Council in consultation with Group Whips and having taken into account the views of the Leader and the Chair of MCG Ltd Board. |
Reasons:
With local government funding restrictions continuing to reduce overall budgets and the ring fence coming off the Public Health Grant in 2020, trading services provides an opportunity to generate income and deliver more efficient services in Medway.
Medway Commercial Group is an established Medway Council owned trading company that will provide the most efficient way of delivering traded public health services.