Agenda item

This report presents the Board with the Annual Report of the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Partnership Board (MHLD PB).

The Board received the Annual Report 2015/16 of the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Partnership Board to the Health and Wellbeing Board. The Chair of the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Partnership Board (MHLDPB), Paul Howatson was in attendance to present the report.

Board Members were informed that membership wise the Board had welcomed a representative from York Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and City of York Council’s Assistant Director for Children and Families as a Board Members. The latter allowed for a link with the YorOK Board and children and young people’s emotional health and wellbeing. Membership was kept under review throughout the year.

In regards to work that had been carried out by the MHLDPB over the past year, they had established a Task and Finish group to look at housing for those with complex needs and this was due to report back in the summer. Other key focuses for the upcoming year would be work around various JSNA topics (students, learning disabilities and self harm); a Mental Health Strategy for York and input into the renewal of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy for York.

Board Members asked questions around the performance section of the report specifically;

·        Had the fall in the use of mental health care bed days experienced in the first quarter of 2015/16 brought York down to the national average?

·        Could further data be provided to Board Members on the spend per head on specialist mental health services and how much lower this was than the national average?

The Chair of MHLDPB agreed to take these questions away and report back to the Health and Wellbeing Board.

There were a number of comments around how performance was monitored by both the Health and Wellbeing Board and its sub structure and the Chair felt that this needed to be more robust. The Chairs of both HWBB and MHLDPB agreed to meet to discuss this further.

One Board Member asked why learning disabilities and mental health had been put together as they were distinct, and if there was service user involvement on the Board. Whilst service users themselves were not members of the Partnership Board they were represented through voluntary and community sector representatives who did sit on the Board. Additionally service users could attend any of the Partnership Board meetings to speak. The two learning disabilities focused meetings per annum were run as engagement sessions and well attended by service users.

It was reported that the sub boards that sit beneath the Health and Wellbeing Board would be reviewed as part of some forthcoming work with the Local Government Association (LGA).

Further questions from Board Members related to the support given to families who had to travel out of area to receive care, following the change in mental health provider.

It was reported that Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust did have a scheme for transport for admissions and they were planning on transport for discharges.

The Chair thanked Paul for his attendance.

Resolved:  That the report be noted.

Reason:     To keep HWBB appraised of the work of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Partnership Board.