Decision Maker: Corporate Director of Health and Adult Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To consider and agree the extension of the
existing Section 75 County Council/NHS commissioner and provider
agreements for the integrated community health and social care
services in the Harrogate district. Give consideration to any
consultation requirements.
Approval has been given for a 12 month
extension to the Commissioner and Provider S75 Agreements for the
Harrogate and Rural Alliance .
It has also been agreed that further proposals for future
development of the service and any revisions to the Section 75
Agreements are brought back for consideration within the extension
period, to enable any decisions and public consultation to take
place with respect to longer-term arrangements being agreed beyond
2022/23
Harrogate and Rural Alliance (HARA) is a
partnership involving the NHS (North Yorkshire Clinical
Commissioning Group, HDFT, Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation
Trust and Yorkshire Health Network GP Federation and the 4 Primary
Care Networks in the Harrogate district) and the County
Council.
In Autumn 2019, the Executive approved the two Section 75s covering
North Yorkshire County Council’s involvement in the HARA. The
purpose of the S75 agreements was to put in place the agreements to
govern and manage shared planning and commissioning and delivery of
integrated services, supported by an indicative set of core and
aligned budgets in the geography of Harrogate and Rural District. A
formal consultation was undertaken as part of the process for the
approval of the Section 75s in 2019, which included the options to
extend with the Section 75s.
The purpose of the extension is to allow HARA to continue to
operate for a further year whilst work is completed on the future
scope of HARA, taking into account changes in Local Government,
Social Care and the NHS.
Further work to be undertaken during 2022/23
to consider longer term arrangements and to take account of the
national Integration White Paper
Publication date: 14/03/2022
Date of decision: 11/03/2022
Effective from: 22/03/2022