Issue - meetings

Cabinet received a report setting out a Supporting Patients Choices to Avoid Long Hospital Stays Policy, developed locally by NHS organisations and local authorities operating in the area of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, and based on a national framework issued by NHS England. It was reported that a funding framework had also been developed by NHS and Local Authority partners within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Partnership.

Resolved: That

  i.  the Supporting Patients Choice to Avoid Long Hospital Stays Policy for Lancashire and South Cumbria set out in the report be approved.

  ii.  the adoption of the Funding Framework set out in the report be approved;

  iii.  the Director of Adult Services, in conjunction with the Director of Financial Resources, be authorised to finalise the County Council's own implementation arrangements for the policy and funding framework as and when it has received approval by other NHS and local authority organisations.