CCG Minutes - NHS Cumbria

Interim CCG Executive21 June 2012This will help inform member practices and highlight issues / concerns thatcould impact the current position.Finance 12/13 current positionInitial information from acute providers indicates that month 1 activity is inline with agreed contracts. Elective activity is up but is offset by reducedlevels of emergency care activity. Week 10 data reflects this. It isanticipated that the closing position for Quarter 1 will be available at theJuly meeting. Data relating to prescribing spending will also be available atthe July meeting.The CCG Executive noted the report.ii)MEDIUM TERM FINANCIAL STARTEGYCharles Welbourn gave a brief overview of the report previously circulatedwhich outlined the CCG financial strategy for the next 3 years and hasbeen based on the ISOP plan for 2012 – 2015 including the CCG’scommissioning intentions and reflects budgets devolved to the CCGthrough the accountability agreement for 2012/13. The financialarchitecture at the current time remains considerably uncertain and theapproach has therefore incorporated a number of assumptions which willneed reviewing and formalising in due time. It is anticipated that a financialstocktake in August will allow further detail to be added. Further iterationsof the plan will be issued when available.The paper details:• Overall planning approach• Specific planning assumptions and approach to risk includingrecurring costs and non-recurring funding• Key resource changes, summary of the financial plan and 3 yearlocality analysisThe CCG executive approved the financial strategy as a working documentand acknowledged the assumptions which it is based upon.iii)CHARITABLE FUNDSCharles Welbourn summarised the paper previously distributed.The NHS Cumbria Charitable Fund is an independent charity (registeredwith the Charity Commission) and the Board of Cumbria Teaching PCTacts as the corporate trustee under statute.Given the planned demise of the PCT on 31 March 2013 then appropriatefuture trustee arrangements need to be established. The PCT’s CharitableFund Committee has identified that, following the proposed transfer ofassets, around 85% of the fund will relate to services provided by andoperated in premises owned by Cumbria Partnership FT (CPFT), and theremaining funds for services provided by CPFT. Therefore, the Committee- 7 -