Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to the report presented by Dr. Ian Turner, GP Specialist in Unscheduled Care, and Ian Atkinson, Senior Commissioner, which outlined the scope of a review that had been planned into unscheduled (urgent) care provision in Rotherham. 

The review planned to look at issues of access, whether clear pathways existed for patients and service users, to remove duplication and waste, and ensure that the highly skilled unscheduled care workforce was deployed in the most effective setting.  The review aimed to ensure that sustainable and high quality access to unscheduled care was available to the people of Rotherham in the longer term.   

It was envisaged that a full public consultation would be entered into between December, 2012, and March, 2013. 

Consideration was given to the scope of the review and provided feedback on the content. 

• Streamlining options available to patients to avoid confusion;
• Travel considerations relating to location of unscheduled care provision(s);
• Cultural norms and whether members of the Black and Minority Ethnic communities used a particular method of unscheduled care.

Whilst Rotherham’s unscheduled care providers would form part of the review, other sources of unscheduled care and information would not be involved in the scope.  These included: -

• NHS Direct help-line and the 111 NHS Service;
• Visit local pharmacists;
• Call 999. 

Resolved: -  (1)  That the information shared be noted. 

(2)  That the Health Select Commission be informed of the scope of the review into Rotherham’s unscheduled care provision.