Issue - meetings

Background:

This report presented Medway’s draft Better Care Fund (BCF) plan for 2023-25. New policy and planning guidance had been released in March, which required a two year plan to be developed by local areas and submitted for national approval by 28 June 2023. The Plan had been drafted with consideration of strategic priorities for NHS Kent and Medway ICB, Medway and Swale Health and Care Partnership, Medway Council and Medway Foundation Trust and captured activity both funded by the BCF and those services funded more widely, where they contributed to the BCF Metrics.

On 9 March 2023, the Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered the current BCF Plan (2022/23), which enabled Members to review the potential content of the draft 2023 – 2025 BCF Plan and the context, helping to inform the development of this Plan. The Committee’s comments were set out in Section 4 of the report.

The Health and Wellbeing Board also considered the report at its meeting on 7 July 2023, and its comments were set out in an addendum report.

Reasons:

Approval of the Better Care Fund Plan 2023 – 2025 will formalise the submission made to NHS England, which had to take place as a provisional submission by 28 June 2023.