This meeting of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Partnership is scheduled to include a number of presentations on a range of different projects and initiatives that are being delivered by the partnership. In particular the meeting will focus on the Integrated Care Partnership's Transforming Community Care programme, the Integrated Care Strategy, public engagement activities and the Integrated Care Board’s Digital and Data Strategy.

Transforming Community Care

The meeting is scheduled to include a presentation summarising discussions from a workshop that was held to discuss the Integrated Care Partnership's Transforming Community Care programme. The workshop attendees were asked to consider what a successful outcome for the programme looks like, and the Integrated Care Partnership's role in achieving that success.

The presentation is expected to highlight that the workshop considered a wide range of elements of the programme, from care coordination to technological innovation, end-of-life care, and addressing social and economic inequalities.

The workshop suggested that success would look like a future in which:

Linking health and social care with employment opportunities and utilising non-traditional care settings are seen as essential components.

The presentation is also expected to summarise discussions around the role of the Integrated Care Partnership in the programme, which centred on the idea that:

the ICP does not have any decision-making authority over spend and budgets.

It suggests that the Integrated Care Partnership could act as an advocate for the programme, and encourage partners to unblock barriers to its successful implementation.

Integrated Care Strategy: Dying Well

Sue McGraw, as the Domain Sponsor for the Dying Well aspect of the Integrated Care Strategy, is scheduled to give a presentation on the strategy's delivery. The presentation will reportedly focus on work being undertaken outside of the NHS by Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations to compliment nationally mandated programmes, like Getting to Outstanding.

The presentation is expected to reiterate the vision for Dying Well, which is to:

get the people of Lancashire & South Cumbria comfortable with talking about and planning for dying and then well supported in bereavement.

It describes the key measure for success as an:

Increase in people who have an end of life conversation by the time they have died [...] which includes planning for advance care/end of life, choosing their care arrangements including preferred place of care and place of death.

Integrated Care Board Digital and Data Strategy

The meeting will reportedly include a presentation on the refresh of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (LSC ICB) Digital and Data Strategy. The presentation is expected to state that the strategy was endorsed by the Integrated Care Board in May 2024, and describe how the formation of OneLSC on 1st November 2024 will be a critical factor in the development of a Target Operating Model for digital, data and technology. The presentation is also expected to say that work will begin before the end of the financial year to develop a five-year roadmap and 12-month implementation plan for the strategy.

Public Engagement and Involvement

A presentation on the topic of public engagement is expected to focus on the Change NHS campaign that was launched by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England in November 2024. It is expected to say that the Integrated Care Board submitted an organisational response to the Change NHS campaign, having first sought the input of a range of partner organisations.

The presentation is also expected to describe the findings of a programme of public engagement activities that were undertaken by the Integrated Care Board between September and December 2024. Those activities reportedly included a number of public meetings in locations like Barrow-in-Furness and Burnley, outreach to groups including the Kirkby Lonsdale Wellbeing group and the Pendle Health Awareness event, and a series of surveys of the 1,500 strong Integrated Care Board’s Citizens' Panel. It will reportedly share the key themes from that engagement, which include:

A desire for moving services into the community - a multidisciplinary ‘one-stop shop’ was suggested at all events.

The presentation will also reportedly highlight the public's frustration with long waiting lists and the poor quality of care they have received, and their desire for better communication from the Integrated Care Board. It will reportedly describe the planned public engagement activities relating to the pre-consultation engagement phase of the New Hospitals Programme.

It is expected to conclude with a discussion of how to improve partnership working on engagement, seeking to answer the question:

What are the priorities for shared conversations with the public and how do we manage, coordinate and capture engagement activities across multiple places, organisations and partnerships?