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Item 12 - Strategic Commissioning Plan

North Lanarkshire Council · 22 June 2022
Back to Health and Social Care Integration Joint Board — 22 June 2022 and its agenda

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REPORT 
Item No: 12 
SUBJECT:  Strategic Commissioning Plan  2023-2026
TO:  North Integration Joint Board  
Lead
Officer for
Report: 
Ross McGuffie
Chief officer 
Author(s)
of Report 
Morag Dendy 
Head of Planning, Performance and Quality Assurance
DATE:  22nd  June 2022 
1. PURPOSE OF REPORT 
This paper is coming to the IJB 
For approval  For endorsement  To note 
2. ROUTE TO THE BOARD 
This paper has been: 
Prepared By:
Head of Planning,
Performance and
Quality Assurance 
Reviewed By:
Chief Officer 
Endorsed By:
Strategic Leadership Team 
3. RECOMMENDATIONS 
3.1 1. Seeking endorsement of our approach from IJB
2. Seeking promotion of the approach to encourage wide participation in
the development of the 2023 – 2026 Strategic Commissioning Plan 
4.  VARIATIONS TO DIRECTIONS? 
Yes  No  N/A

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5. BACKGROUND/SUMMARY OF KEY ISSUES 
5.1 Background 
5.2 Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire published its ten-year strategy
Safer, Healthier, Independent Lives, in 2016. Strategic Commissioning
Plans (SCP) which are a statutory requirement, have been produced to
outline the key intentions to be delivered, initially annually (2016-17,
2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20) then a three-year plan for 2020 – 23. The
2023 – 2026 SCP will be the final plan within the ten-year strategy. 
5.3 Along with Safer, Heathier, Independent Lives 2016 – 2026, The Plan for
North Lanarkshire and Achieving Excellence which is currently being
refreshed all shape the Strategic Commissioning Plans for North
Lanarkshire Health and Social Care. 
5.4 The SCP is further underpinned by key strategies and plans including
but not limited to:
a) Community Solutions Strategy and investment Plan
b) Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Lanarkshire
c) North Lanarkshire Children’s Services Plan
d) Alcohol and Drug Partnership Strategic Plan
e) Tackling Poverty Strategy
f) Engagement and Participation Strategy
g) Market Facilitation Plan
h) North Lanarkshire Strategy for Adult Carers and Young Carers
i) Lanarkshire Advocacy Plan
j) Lanarkshire Healthy Weight Strategy
k) Digital and IT Strategy 
5.5 The 9 Local Outcome Improvement Plans developed through each of the
Community Boards capture local priorities and actions (noted below)
which both inform and are informed by the work of the Health and Social
Care Partnership and shape the Strategic Planning process. 
 Mental Health and Wellbeing  Public and community
transport
 Tackling poverty and inequalities Community Safety
 Health inequalities   Greenspace maintenance and
environmental quality
 Food inequality    Digital Inclusion
 Covid 19 recovery   Youth engagement and
consultation
 Community Engagement  Social interaction and inclusion
 Town centre and hub development 
5.7 Summary of Key Issues 
The development of the Strategic Commissioning Plan 2023 – 26 is underway
with discussions across a range of important forum, including Strategic
Leadership Team, Strategic Planning Group, Chairs and Co-chairs of Locality
Planning Groups and Partnership Boards, as well as discussion with key
partner organisations and engagement forums. These discussions have helped
on shaping the next steps of engagement and participation in the Strategic

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Commissioning Planning process as well as draw a range of related activities
together to refresh how they are undertaken and aligned to use resources
smartly.   
5.8 Further embedding a Whole System Approach 
The Health and Social Care Partnership has long been committed to a whole
system approach, recognising the co-dependencies. Building performance
frameworks across the whole system will involve understanding activities
across: 
Communities
Proactive and preventative activity
First or initial responses
Change services such as rehabilitation, recovery, treatment and reablement
Ongoing interventions
Complex and statutory interventions
Acute or in-patient responses 
5.9 Strengthening engagement and participation 
5.10 The Engagement and Participation Strategy, Framework and Principles
2021-24 clearly outlines the importance of, and the approach to, ensuring
strong voices inform and shape the work undertaken through the Health and
Social Care Partnership. 
5.11 Whilst significant progress has been made in engagement and
participation, in aspiring a more co-productive approach, there is more to be
done. The voice of communities is embedded through Community Solutions
supporting local consortia who have a broad and wide reach. The voice of
carers is well represented through North Lanarkshire Carers Together. Good
progress has been made in representing the voice of people with lived
experience, discussions are being undertaken to invest in future approaches
which robustly enhance this to increase the focus on underrepresented groups.   
5.12 Frontline staff and wider stakeholders are also important in wider
engagement and participation. Quarterly staff roadshows augment local
arrangements and facilitate easier information sharing and participation.   
5.13 Delivering on major change as well as business as usual 
5.14 The 6 key ambitions of the SCP 2020-23 is achieved through 41
programmes of work, previously noted through IJB meetings relating to the
DELIVERY of services and supports, ENABLING, SUPPORTING and
GOVERNING factors. It is also worthy of note however that there are a number
of transformational change programmes being supported simultaneously, in
particular:
a) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service change
b) Community Nursing Review
c) Development of Mental Health in Primary Care Services
d) Development of Home First approach incorporating Home Assessment
Teams, Integrated Rehabilitation Teams and modernisation of Home
Support Services

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e) Development of Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health Services
The learning and development achieved through these programmes of change
need to feed into the SCP 2023-26. 
5.15 Active governance and refresh of performance 
5.16 Developing the Whole System Approach described at 5.8 above work is
underway to revise performance reviews to promote active governance.
Increasingly data will be used to assure, anticipate and prioritise, within the
Health and Social Care Partnership, with key partners and through the role
governance committees play in scrutinising data in detail. 
5.17 The construction of performance reviews will develop the revised
structures within the Health and Social Care Partnership, using the two Sector
and 3 main Area Wide constructs to promote integrated approaches, cross
cutting learning and shared ambition. The review groupings then become: North
West Sector (including Airdrie, Coatbridge and North Localities); North East
Sector (including Bellshill, Motherwell and Wishaw localities); Children’s health
services; Addiction, Learning Disability and Mental Health Services across
health and social care; and area wide health services along with area wide
social work services.   
5.18 Proposals to introduce a whole system performance review are being
developed to more actively include the voice of communities, the voice of
carers, the voice of people with lived experience, representation of the
independent sector, colleagues from acute services. Representing South
H&SCP hosted services and the North Core Team.   
5.19 Bringing the key considerations together, dates are being identified to
facilitate 5 key engagement sessions to analyse and discuss the Strategic
Needs Assessments and Local Outcome Improvement Plans for each locality
and area wide services. These sessions will be held in August and will inform
both the development of the SCP 2023-26 and establish the revised
performance review groups. Invitation will be made to IJB members to
participate in events. 
6. CONCLUSIONS 
6.1 The SCP is crucial to achieving the strategic ambitions for people in
North Lanarkshire. Wide engagement which brings together Strategic Needs
Assessments, Locality Outcome Improvement Plans, national and local
strategies and plans, as well as learning and lessons from the transformational
change agendas is being planned and developed for late August 2022. The
engagement sessions, and others to be agreed with stakeholders will be
designed to really share, listen and act in the complex whole system approach. 
A draft SCP will be brought to the IJB in late 2022. 
7. IMPLICATIONS 
7.1 NATIONAL OUTCOMES

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This paper covers all nine national health and wellbeing outcomes, but
particularly outcomes one and two. 
7.2.1 ASSOCIATED MEASURE(S)
The range of associated performance measures within both the
national outcome indicators and our own local performance framework
will be refreshed alongside the development of the SCP 2023-26 and
continued development of the Programme of Work. 
7.3 FINANCIAL 
Financial Planning will be an important element of the SCP 2023-26 
This paper has been reviewed by Finance: 
Yes   No  N/A 
7.4 RISK ASSESSMENT/RISK MANAGEMENT 
Consideration of risk is key to the overall plan and within each
Programme of Work. 
7.5  PEOPLE 
Residents across North Lanarkshire, third and independent providers
operating in North Lanarkshire and wider stakeholders with a link to
North Lanarkshire will be involved in the development of the SCP 2023-
26.  
7.6  STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (Detail below any stakeholder
engagement that has taken place). 
7.6.1 Discussion at the Strategic Planning Group and Strategic
Leadership Meeting has informed the paper. 
7.6.2 The need for and quality of stakeholder engagement is
recognised as the most significant key factor in developing a
meaningful SCP for North Lanarkshire 
7.7 INEQUALITIES & FAIRER SCOTLAND DUTY 
The approach outlined in the report will seek to address inequalities
and promote fair work practices by creating opportunities to engage
and participate in the development HSCNL key priorities and strategic
direction. 
EQIA Completed & Fairer Scotland Impact Assessment Form
Completed: 
Yes  No  N/A 
7.8  CARBON MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS 
N/A 
8. BACKGROUND PAPERS# 
8.1 This content in this paper links directly to the following:

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• Strategic Commissioning plan 20-2023
https://www.hscnorthlan.scot/wpcontent/uploads/2020/07/Strategic-
Comm-Plan-20-23-FINAL.pd 
9. APPENDICES 
None. 
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CHIEF ACCOUNTABLE OFFICER (or Depute)   
Members seeking further information about any aspect of this report, please contact
Morag Dendy on telephone number 01698 332000.