The Sustainability and Transformation website is years old. The Clinical Commissioning Group don’t say anything on their website. Where on earth can the STP Board be?
Hands Off Hinchingbrooke are perpexed at this mystery and are hoping to find the whereabouts of the Cambridgeshire & Pboro Sustainability & Transformation Board (STPB). Last seen at an online meeting in November and haven’t been seen since! January’s meeting was cancelled and if they have got together since they haven’t invited the public.
We thought we would try NHS England because, well, they know everything that goes on locally don’t they? They are the bosses after all. So helpfully they listed Roland Sinker as the STP Lead and Michael More as Independent Chair (https://www.england.nhs.uk/integratedcare/how-did-we-get-here/view-stps/cambridgeshire-and-peterborough/) so we thought we would try that.
That bounced as undeliverable or to be exact – “Quota exceeded (mailbox for user is full)”. There must be a lot of us trying to find the STPB. Why we wonder?
YOu may be asking who or WHAT is the STP? Good question. Well it is supposed to be a collaborative partnership of organisations across the county working together to improve the NHS in our local area. Oh and find “efficiency savings” CUTS everywhere.
When we find them we want to ask the Sustainability & Transformation Board about the move to becoming an Integrated Care System (another NHS England brainwave that is all about “joining up” healthcare and finding even more “efficiency savings”. We would like to know the following:
1. When will the STP Board announce they are becoming an ICS?
1a) Who will be the Independent Chair of the ICS?
1b) Which organisation will take the Lead Provider role and how has this LP been selected?
1c) Will this Lead Provider hold the main ICS budget?
1d) How much is that planned ‘capitated budget’ going to be and what is it to cover?
1e) Have STP/ICS Transition meetings taken place and were the public informed?
When a government White Paper – about Integrated Care Systems – is issued and the public aren’t really given the chance to find out what is going on it does make us worry. New legislation is about to lock in a system which will allow more private company involvement in the management of our NHS even though the NHS England Spin says it will keep them out.
There is a Clinical Commissioning Group meeting today online and some of us will try to attend. When we get some answers about the STP and the Integrated Care System we will ensure they are made public on our website.
If you are worried about the changes being made to our health system in Cambridgeshire get in touch. We would like to hear from you.
