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Chair's Communications
Minutes:
38.1 The Chair gave the following communication:
Welcome to the meeting
It is a busy agenda and the Chair’s communications will be noted in full in the minutes.
Changes in the seating arrangements
There are a number of members of the public here, which is good to
see. Clearly there are issues on today’s agenda which people feel
passionate about. Please do note that you are here as observers, not as
participants in the meeting. The council has a number of ways for people
to ask questions or present petitions to committee meetings – and we
have members of the public here today with a deputation as well as with several public questions. However, we cannot have the meeting disrupted by people shouting out from the public gallery, and I’m sure everyone here today will respect this.
Changes of personnel within health and social care
I would like to welcome the Interim Director of Adult Social Care, David Sargeant, to the Board. David will attend until Rob Persey joins us in the New Year.
As many of you are aware Brian Doughty was acting up but has been taken ill. I am sure all the Board wish him a speedy recovery.
Rob will be formally joining us in January. As Rob is not a formal member of the Board until then he is observing the meeting.
It is also time to welcome new CCG colleagues. We welcome Adam Doyle, as the new Chief Accountable Officer, and also Dr David Supple, who is the new Chair of the CCG. He works within the Preston Park practice. David is not able to be with us today but we look forward to seeing him at a later meeting.
Special Measures
In recent months both the South East Coast Ambulance Trust and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust have gone into special measures. They both have NHS Improvement working with them and have a series of action plans in place.
Our Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee with their counterparts throughout the region will be working on monitoring their progress.
It is clear that over the next few months there will be change and demands in the health and social care system which we are heavily involved in.
Patient Transport
As everyone is aware the Patient Transport service provided by Coperforma has been subject to a lot of media attention. People may be aware that there is a phased transfer of the contract to South Central Ambulance Service. The managed transfer will continue until April 2017 when all services will be then with South Central.
CCG Patient and Public Participation Strategy
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This Annual Report summarises Patient and Public Participation work in Brighton & Hove CCG from August 2015- July 2016, with reference to the CCG’s Patient and Public Participation Strategy. The report highlights engagement with patients, carers and the public over the past year, and next steps to further develop ways we hear from those who use our services, and their carers, ensuring that the CCG’s commitment to putting patients at the heart of everything we do is fulfilled.
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It will be placed here on the CCG website:
http://www.brightonandhoveccg.nhs.uk/get-involved-local-nhs
HOSC
There is a meeting in public of the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee on the 7th December 2016. The first part of the meeting will be focused on the STP. An agenda will be available nearer the time.
STP engagement
While we are all too aware of the current lack of STP engagement at a wider regional level, I am very pleased to be able to feedback on the Brighton & Hove Caring Together (Brighton Rock) engagement sessions which we are part way though. Later on today John will be sharing some of the slides from the events for those who have been unable to attend.
We have also had the publication of our area place based plan – although the STP submission itself is still not with us. The Board is frustrated by this lack of transparency – which we know some residents share.
Brighton & Hove City Wide Connect meeting
The meeting of Brighton & Hove Connected was very helpful. While we are aware of the planned infrastructure developments in the city the meeting focused on what would be the impact of these plans on public health, primary and acute care as well as adult and children’s services.
The presentation can be found on the website. The link will be in the minutes.
http://www.bhconnected.org.uk/sites/bhconnected/files/BHC%20October%202016%20FINAL.pdf
NATIONAL CHILDREN AND ADULT SERVICES CONFERENCE 2016
Organised by the Association of Directors of Social Services (ADASS), the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), the National Children and Adult Services Conference is regularly attended by more than 1,000 delegates.
The event is regularly used as a platform for policy announcements and offers the opportunity for discussions with Ministerial and shadow teams.
38.2 Adam Doyle introduced himself to the Board, saying that he was happy to be working in the city and stressing his commitment to working to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.
38.3 The Chair also informed members that the Central Sussex & East Surrey Alliance (CSESA) Place-Based Plan had recently been published on the CCG website: http://www.brightonandhoveccg.nhs.uk/your-services/sustainability-and-transformation-plan
38.4 The Chair also noted that it had recently been announced that the homeless GP service, previously provided at Morley Street by The Practice PLC, was to be re-let to Arch Health, a local community Interest Company. Arch Health is headed by Dr Tim Worsley who previously ran the Morley Street practice. This is excellent news for the city.