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 the recurrent funding of a network of Community Diagnostic Centres across Salford provided by Salford Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance.

The reasons are:

The investment will support integrated working and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for the people of Salford. The wider system benefits include reduced pressure on general practice and fewer unnecessary visits to hospital. Aligned to new models of care delivery, the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) may support the delivery of elements of the NHS long term plan including an overall 30% reduction in the number of face-to-face outpatient appointments. The introduction of CDCs will also meet the recommendations of the Independent Review of Diagnostic Services Demand.

Options considered and rejected were:

The options to “Do Nothing” and to” Scale up the existing Primary Care Diagnostic Unit” were reviewed and rejected prior to the compilation of the business case.

Assessment of risk:

Medium – work needs to be ongoing to guarantee utilization at the Centres is increased to ensure value for money.

The source of funding is:

The Integrated Health and Care Fund (Pooled Budget)

Legal advice obtained:

Not applicable

Financial advice obtained:

Yes – Salford CCG and Salford Care Organisation

Procurement advice obtained:

Not applicable

HR advice obtained:

Not applicable

Climate change advice obtained:

Not applicable – though there should be a benefit to carbon footprint as patients will receiving care closer to home and therefore travel will be reduced

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

Community Diagnostic Centre Business Case and appended 6-month evaluation of the CDC pilot

Contact Officer:        Tori Quinn                             Email: tori.quinn@nhs.net                         

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

Signed:          Councillor John Merry                     Dated: 25 March 2022                                           

This decision was published on 25 March 2022                                    

Unless it is called-in in accordance with the decision making process rules, this decision will come into force at 4:00pm on       1 April 2022  

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 to sustain the CURE Tobacco Addiction programme for inpatients at Salford Care Organisation

The reasons are:

To offer a tobacco treatment plan to all inpatient smokers at Salford Care Organisation.

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) 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 March 2022 and embedded documents

Contact Officer:        Samantha Mansfield                      

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

Signed:          Councillor John Merry         Dated: 25 March 2022                   

Deputy City Mayor and Lead Member Adult Services Health and Wellbeing

This decision was published on 25 March 2022.                                               

Unless it is called-in in accordance with the decision-making process rules, this decision will come into force at 4:00pm on       1 April 2022. 

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