Stockport Together Update

16th August 2016

Please see below an update of progress from Tim Ryley, programme director for Stockport Together, covering the three stages of the MCP development process:

• Commissioning – an event was held recently to go through the details of the new contract, following which the commissioning managers met to progress the work.

A meeting was held on Monday 8^th August between the Council and the CCG, which brought together the key parties to start talking about how the commissioning will be done. The meeting covered the statutory obligations that have to be met by both parties, and looked at which duties can be delegated to other parties and which can be passed to the MCP to be managed.

• Provider – the MCP has been put out to procurement, and the providers continue to develop a response so that we can establish a contract for the MCP. Work is underway with NHS England, which has issued guidance to aid the process.

• Service model – the business cases are still being developed in order to get ready to move into implementation phase.

There are certain items which need further consideration when it comes to the funding. For example, the development of the community electronic patient records (EPR) will be funded through the transformation fund, but this will not include all the costs of the mobile technology needed to make it most effective.

• In addition to these three areas, Tim also mentioned the launch of ‘Talking Together’, the Crowdsourcing software which is providing the Stockport Together team with a new and different way of engaging with frontline staff.

Phase one launched earlier this week with community staff, adult social care teams Practice staff, and some directorates from the CCG being invited to take part. Posters have been circulated around the partner organisations’ buildings, to explain a little more about what Talking Together is.

Teams are encouraged to sign up to the online platform once they receive their email invitation.

• Tim also provided a transformation and investment fund update – Stockport is still waiting for the final details to be signed. Once done, we will have a document which sets out the milestones for delivery, including the benefits trajectory, the rules/parameters for funding and the amounts we can expect to receive.

The Stockport Together team is looking at the process for how the money will be allocated. The principles are:

• The partnership sets the budgets
• The fund is to support transformation, not to prop up any areas within any of the partner organisations
• Not to be seen as separate from any other sources of financial support
• Operating under an open book principle, so any resource allocation will be audited
• Should devolve as much as possible as far down to the front line teams as possible
• Cannot be held up by bureaucracy

Stockport has been given £7m for this year. Indicative opening position is that:

• £2.8m will go into pump prime/double running/service improvements
• £1.6m enablers such as IM&T
• £300k Viaduct establishment
• £1.2m MCP development and implementation capacity
• £850k commissioning board for outcomes framework
• £670k programme office inc. consultation/evaluation

Each of these areas has an executive lead who has to create a business case or proposal outlining how this money will be allocated this year.

• The NHS England Rapid Testing programme has reached the mid-point, a review session took place on Friday 12^th.  An update will be circulated shortly.