Agenda item

This is a standard item on the agenda which allows for Members to receive updates from all the organisations and sectors involved in the Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board.

Board Members received a number of verbal updates on organisations and sectors involved in the Shadow Health and Wellbeing Board.

Local Health Watch

It was confirmed that verbal confirmation from the Department of Health stated that the Health Watch did not have to be a standalone organisation.

Additionally, discussions had taken place over joint commissioning for the complaints advocacy part of Health Watch, but it had been decided that a standalone service would continue in York. It was noted that a Health Watch supplier event would take place at York Explore and that it was hoped that tender documentation for the  Local Health Watch and NHS Complaints Advocacy Service would be issued in September.

Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group Overview of Strategy

Board Members were informed about developments that had taken place in the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (VOYCC). It was reported that Community Medical Teams had been introduced which would bring together expertise from GPs surgeries such as Priory Medical Group and Haxby Medical Centre. The teams would focus on families and would include hospital staff. It was reported that this would allow for greater collaboration in order to identify what health concerns were particularly important to patients, and that this could inform more precise commissioning of services, in order to be more financially sustainable.

Board Members requested that feedback from patients’ perspectives should be brought to the Board, in order to gauge the progress of the Community Medical Teams.

In relation to Oliver House Care Home, it was reported that an Innovation Day would be held on 23 July 2012, which would seek to include stakeholders into examining how services could be offered in an alternative way.

Board Members were then informed about organisational developments that had taken place within the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. It was noted that;

·        The team of governors would now include a number of non-Executive Directors.

·        That a Finance Officer and new Medical Director had been appointed to the Executive Director group.

·        That there was an Associate Director for York.

·        That if beds were not available for certain services (such as for mothers and babies) in York, that a service in Leeds would be offered. This would be a bespoke and fully staffed service.

·        That the Partnership was in the process of recruiting a governor from Mental Health, but this was particularly different given the broad range and different experiences that the area brought.

Public Health

Board Members were informed about a consultation document that was currently in development with the Public Health teams in City of York Council (CYC) and North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) regarding the structure of Public Health following the transfer of responsibility for it to Local Authorities. It was also reported that further consultation work would take place around Public Health Finances, between procurement teams in CYC and NYCC.

Discussion took place in relation to CYC’s Fair Access to Care consultation. Some Board Members raised concerns that service users had expressed that they felt the length of consultation had been particularly short and that the definitions of different levels of care had not been hard to understand.

RESOLVED:       That the verbal updates be noted.

REASON:           In order to inform the Board of current developments in Health and Wellbeing.