Agenda item - Chair's Communications

The Chair of the Board will start the meeting with a short update on recent developments on health and wellbeing.

16.1    Welcome to the meeting. It is a busy agenda and the chairs communications will be noted in full in the minutes.

I would like to welcome David Liley, the new Chief Officer of Healthwatch. I would also like to thank Fran McCabe, the Chair of Healthwatch for her contribution to the Board. Fran, who has attended these meetings up to now but is going to be a co-opted member of our Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

In addition I would like to welcome Wang Jing and Liang Chen who are in the audience today. Wang and Liang are researchers at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy Research Centre of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a major Chinese government research institute with a mandate to provide support to policy formulation.

Finally I would like to say good bye to Denise D’Souza, the Executive Director of Adult Services. Denise is retiring at the end of August and this means it is her last Board meeting. Denise has been part of the city services for many years, working in several roles before becoming Executive Director. We wish her a very happy retirement.

Residential Rehabilitation Services Contract for Substance Misuse

In October 2015 the Health and Wellbeing Board agreed that commissioners could seek to negotiate new four year residential rehabilitation contracts with current providers, with the option of moving to a competitive process if negotiations failed.

Commissioners were successful in negotiating contracts with the existing providers, and signed contracts are now in place for the next four years. Residential rehabilitation services will continue to be provided by Brighton Housing Trust, and Change, Grow, Live (known as Crime Reduction Initiatives at the time of writing the October 2015 report).

TakePart

TAKEPART is an award winning festival, celebrating sport, dance and active lifestyles in Brighton & Hove. The two week celebration has involved over 100 organisations engaging families, children and adults of all ages, many offering free taster sessions throughout the city. The aim is to support people to engage in healthy activity.

Hove Medical Centre

As you may have seen in the local press, CQC has recently inspected the Hove Medical Centre and rated it as inadequate.  This does not mean the surgery will be closing down. The surgery has to prepare a robust action plan and demonstrate improvement.  The matter is already being dealt with by HOSC.

City Plan consultation

Leaflets will be on the Board table and also on public seating. A copy will be attached to the minutes

The council has started work on the City Plan Part Two (CPP2) and is consulting on a Scoping Paper - consultation runs 30 June to 22 September 2016. The quick guide provides a summary of all the topics and policy issues covered in the full Scoping Document. Responses to this consultation will help shape the content of the plan.

To find out more about the issues and view City Plan Part Two Scoping consultation documents please visit www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/cityplan-part2

Action on Elder Abuse

As you may already be aware, Action on Elder Abuse has launched a new national campaign, calling for an aggravated offence of elder abuse.

Information will be added to the minutes about the campaign and how to get involved.

BSUHT

As you may be aware the hospital has also had a CQC inspection.  Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been issued with a Warning Notice by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) under Section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act. The Notice requires the Trust to make significant improvements to the quality and safety of care and privacy and dignity of both inpatient and outpatients in a number of key areas. It also highlights a failure to provide treatment and care that is in line with national timescales and standards. The Trust is required to make the necessary improvements by 30 August 2016.

The Notice comes following the CQC’s full inspection of the Trust in April and the report from this will be published later in the summer.

The Trust is already working hard on delivering an improvement plan designed to address the issues raised by the CQC and has taken action on the most immediate concerns since their April visit.

HOSC will be leading on this work.

A report will come to the September Health and Wellbeing Board.

16.2    A number of Board members joined with the Chair in praising Denise D’Souza’s contributions to the city and wishing her a happy retirement.