Agenda and decisions

Salford City Council – Record of Decision

I, Councillor John Merry, Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member for Adult Services, Health & Wellbeing and co-chair of the Adults Commissioning Committee, in exercise of the powers contained within the City Council Constitution, do hereby approve funding for a period of six months for the continuation of the CURE programme at Salford Royal Foundation Trust, alongside the existing Hospital Stop Smoking Service.

The reasons are: To offer a tobacco treatment plan to all inpatient smokers at SRFT.

Salford has the highest smoking prevalence in Greater Manchester, with almost 1 in 5 people still smoking. Whilst rates nationally have dropped in recent years, Salford’s rate is not coming down at the required pace to meet the national Smoke Free ambitions of a smoke free generation (prevalence below 5%) by 2030.

The CURE programme identifies all active smokers on admission to secondary care and immediately offers pharmacotherapy, such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or Varenicline, as well as specialist behavioural support, for the duration of their admission and after discharge.

Options considered and rejected were:

Consider with the as is position, whereby some but not all patients are offered this service.

Assessment of risk:

Low – this is a decision to sustain a service in the hospital in line with financial plan

The source of funding is:

The Integrated Health and Care Fund (Pooled Budget)

Legal advice obtained:

Not applicable

Financial advice obtained:

Yes – Supported by Service and Finance Group

Procurement advice obtained:

Not applicable

HR advice obtained:

Not applicable

Climate change advice obtained:

Not applicable

The following documents have been used to assist the decision-making process:

Report – CURE September 2020 and embedded documents

Contact Officer:                

Samantha Mansfield                    Tel no: 07816 084328

The appropriate scrutiny committee to call-in the decision is the Health and Social Care Scrutiny Panel.

Signed:         Councillor John Merry CBE          Dated:16th September 2021                 

Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member Adult Services Health and Wellbeing

This decision was published on 16th September 2021.                                       

Unless it is called-in in accordance with the decision making process rules, this decision will come into force at 4:00pm on      23rd September 2021.      

Salford City Council – Record of Decision

I, Councillor John Merry, Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member for Adult Services, Health & Wellbeing and co-chair of the Adults Commissioning Committee, in exercise of the powers contained within the City Council Constitution, do hereby approve the novation of the contract held between Salford Royal Foundation Trust as the contracting organisation and Aspire (CIC) as the provider organisation, to Salford City Council as contracting organization

The reasons are:

To mitigate the VAT risk to SRFT in holding the contracting organisation role

Options considered and rejected were:

·       To retain the current arrangements.

·       For Salford City Council to contract with Salford Royal Foundation Trust and then sub-contract with Aspire CIC

Assessment of risk:

Medium – VAT pressure of £470k

The source of funding is:

The Integrated Health and Care Fund (Pooled Budget)

Legal advice obtained:

Yes – Shared Legal Services

Financial advice obtained:

Yes – Salford City Council Finance

Procurement advice obtained:

Yes – Salford City Council Procurement

HR advice obtained:

Not applicable

Climate change advice obtained:

Not applicable

The following documents have been used to assist the decision-making process:

Report – Aspire (CIC) Contract – VAT Impact and Options

Contact Officer: Paul Walsh                             Tel no: 0161 793 2202                          

The appropriate scrutiny committee to call-in the decision is the Health and Social Care Scrutiny Panel.

Signed:         Councillor John Merry CBE          Dated:16th September 2021                 

Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member Adult Services Health and Wellbeing

This decision was published on 16th September 2021.                                       

Unless it is called-in in accordance with the decision making process rules, this decision will come into force at 4:00pm on 23rd September 2021. 

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