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Fiona Edwards, Frimley Integrated Care System (ICS) Leader to introduce herself to the Panel and provide a brief overview of the vision for the Frimley ICS and how it integrates with the NHS Long Term Plan.

Fiona Edwards, Leader: Frimley Integrated Care System (ICS) attended to introduce herself to the Panel and provide a brief overview of the vision for the Frimley ICS and how it integrated with the NHS Long Term Plan.

The Chairman welcomed Fiona Edwards, Leader: Frimley (ICS) to the meeting.

Fiona Edwards, Leader: Frimley ICS thanked the Panel for their invitation and confirmed that she had received a number of questions from Members of the Panel in advance of the meeting that she would seek to address.

Fiona Edwards, Leader: Frimley ICS introduced herself to the Panel and outlined how she:

·        Was the Chief Executive of the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and had responsibility for the provision of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental health, learning disabilities and drug and alcohol services in Surrey, North East Hampshire and Farnham.

·        Had been a member of the Frimley ICS since its inception

·        Was a resident within the Frimley ICS patch and had been for over 20 years

·        Had been a public servant and Chief Executive for over 20 years.

·        Had experienced the ICS first hand last year and attributed her recovery and rehabilitation to a working integrated health and social care model.

·        Felt her personal case was a good example of a well functioning emergency system.

·        Felt very proud of the successful integrated care system in practice that demonstrated her vision of the ICS, but also acknowledged that this was not everyone’s experience.

She outlined some further details about the Frimley ICS and explained that it:

·        Worked on behalf of residents serving about 800,000 people across East Berkshire, Surrey Heath Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and North East Hampshire and Farnham CCGs.

·        Was formed around the population and catchment area of Frimley hospitals as a health led establishment but had recently begun to shift to a place based approach.

·        The financial flow for the population of about 800,000 was £1.3 billion.

·        Local Government and the wider determinants of health were now being worked on and Councillor Dale Birch, Executive Member for Adult Service, Health and Housing was closely associated with this in his role as Chairman of the Health and Wellbeing Board.

·        Residents expected the integrated care system (ICS) to work in an integrated way.

·        Her vision for the Frimley ICS was to help the system work much better for residents when they needed help, supporting the wider determinants of health such as supporting healthy communities and the role the environment, housing and transport played.

·        The ICS was in the process of refreshing their strategy to support the NHS Long Term Plan which would take a population based approach looking at health data and residents’ health.

She explained that the issues and challenges of how best to work across the large footprint of the Frimley ICS to support close, joined up working were:

·        The definition of place was increasingly the local authority (LA) boundary.

·        Primary care networks were now becoming part of the system.  This  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8