Decision details

To note implications of the Department of Health NHS White Paper on Southwark Council and approve steps to implement changes

RESOLVED:

Decisions of the Cabinet

1.  That the changes being planned and taking place in the National Health Service (NHS) at national, regional and borough level and the continuing degree of uncertainty surrounding these developments be noted.

2.  That the implications for the council’s arrangements for partnership working with the health sector in Southwark in both the shorter term transition period prior to the abolition of Southwark Primary Care Trust (PCT) in April 2013 and in the longer term be noted.

3.  That the proposal from Southwark GPs to be considered as a GP consortium pathfinder be welcomed and Cabinet agrees to support them in this project.

4.  That the council undertake a due diligence exercise with the Primary Care Trust (PCT) to clarify all current joint and shared arrangements between the two organisations through which their accountabilities are currently delivered, in consideration of the changes that are taking place in the health system.

5.  That it be noted that a team in the council is leading work on considering all of the implications that are taking place in the health system.

Decisions of the Leader of the Council

6.  That that the cabinet member for health and adult social care oversee a programme of work to implement the legislation that will follow the NHS White Paper and respond to the future government publications anticipated on public health and adult social care.