NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

HEALTH AND ADULT SERVICES EXECUTIVE

Meeting of the Health and Adult Services Executive

14 May 2021 at 13.30

Via MS Teams

DECISION RECORD & MEETING NOTES

Present:        Councillor Michael Harrison and Councillor Caroline Dickinson

Officers:        Richard Webb (RW)

In attendance: Janine Tranmer (JT) Angela Hall (AH) Natalie Smith (NS)

Minutes:        Dawn Day

NO.	ITEM	For Note/ Action
	Declaration of Interests County Councillor Michael Harrison declared an interest as a relative works in Health and Adult Services.
1	Extension to Community Equipment Contract
	The proposed recommendation to agree an extension to the Integrated Community Equipment Service by 2 years from 30 November 2021 was approved. The current service commenced on 1 December 2016 with an expiry date of 30 November 2021 and the potential to extend by 2 years. JT reported that the provider has continued to work throughout Covid and has carried increased stock due to the impact of Brexit and Covid.  This has inevitably incurred additional costs, which they are absorbing.  However, we are likely to see further increases this year. The provider has improved their systems to ensure delivery to NYCC expectations and have addressed issues raised with them.  We will now be looking at all activity and how we can improve the service to be more cohesive. There has been some good integrated working throughout Covid, which has been helpful in developing the service going forward.
2	Extension to the Public Health GP Provider List
	The proposed recommendation to extend the Approved Provider List (APL) for up to 3 years from 1 April 2022 until 31 March 2025 was approved. It was reported that primary care priorities for 2021/2022 are the delivery of the vaccination programme and support for the ongoing COVID response. As a result there is insufficient resource to carry out the required procurement process.  This has led to the recommendation to extend the APL. We will use this time to carry out transformation work as well as allow time for a full review of the contract and for a re-procurement to take place.
3	Extension to Pharmacy Provider List
	The recommendation to extend the Approved Provider List (APL) for up to 3 years from 1 April 2022 until 31 March 2025 was approved. It was reported that primary care priorities for 2021/2022 are the delivery of the vaccination programme and support for the ongoing COVID response. As a result there is insufficient resource to carry out the required procurement process.  This has led to the recommendation to extend the APL. The APL will continue to operate in the same way so there will be no alteration to the overall scope of the contracts. During the extension period, the council will continue to accept applications to the provider list.  This will ensure the APL does not prevent providers from applying to join the list.  AH reported that we have good relationships with partners through a number of forums and consideration will be given to existing services and transformation. Dale Owens will be working with Louise Wallace on the transformation programme.
4	Notes of previous meeting held on 9 April 2021
	Reviewed and agreed as an accurate record.