Agenda and draft minutes

Venue: Town Hall, Moorgate Street, Rotherham S60 2TH

Contact: Dawn Mitchell  Email: dawn.mitchell@rotherham.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

67.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest made at this meeting.

68.

Questions from members of the public and the press

Minutes:

There were no members of the public and press present at the meeting.

69.

Communications

Minutes:

There was nothing to report.

70.

Response to Access to GPs Scrutiny Review pdf icon PDF 2 MB

To be presented by:-

 

Carys Murray Cook, Inspector, South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, Care Quality Commission

Richard Armstrong, NHS England

Chris Edwards, Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group,

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Chairman introduced the Cabinet’s response to the Access to GPs Scrutiny Review and representatives present who would respond to issues raised by Select Commission members.  The representatives included:-

 

Richard Armstrong              NHS England

Carys Murray Cook              South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, Care Quality

Commission

Chris Edwards                      Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group

Dawn Anderson                   Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group

Jacqui Tuffnell                     Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group

 

Recommendation 1.  Patients’ experiences of accessing GPs vary from practice to practice therefore NHS England needs to ensure that patients' views on access are reflected in the forthcoming Personal Medical Services contract re-negotiations and five year commissioning plan

Chairman  1 of my concerns is the national GP survey.  Whilst it gives the big picture I am concerned that in some of our practices we do not have that many responses.  In some of the practices there are 30 responses which only have to have 1 or 2 patients who think differently on a certain day and it can switch a percentage.  What are we doing to make sure we get big numbers in each practice?

 

Richard Armstrong – It is very complicated.  The survey is run twice a year and Ipsos Mori, the company who conduct the survey do a detailed analysis of what has happened in the past.  The survey has been taking place 6-7 years and they target those populations and practices to try and get a statistical and valid response i.e. where there were lower response rates they will survey more patients in that practice and will target in terms of trying to get a range of ages and sexes etc. They boost the survey every time for every practice to try and get that statistical validity.  It was still dependent upon patients returning the surveys but there had been a fairly consistent response rate over the years fluctuating between 43-46%.  It tended to be young minority ethnic communities for the lower response rate so there would be a big boost to try and improve that rate. 

 

Councillor Sansome – Will the report come back here so we can see where the problems lay or where the best practice was that needed to be shared across other practices?

 

Carys Murray Cook – We are planning the Care Quality Commission inspection for Rotherham at the moment.  There were 36 GP practices in the Rotherham area and we plan to inspect 18 of them in the first quarter of 2015/16.  The inspections would be carried out from April onwards and we will be liaising with the Clinical Commissioning Group 2 weeks prior to the inspection starting regarding the practices we will be inspecting and notifying them.  Following an inspection, a very detailed report was written which goes through our quality process and then made available to the public so will be available on our website.

 

Councillor Sansome – I think what is very key to this review, and the reason why it has been referred back, is that the people of the Borough need to see some  ...  view the full minutes text for item 70.

71.

Date and Time of Next Meeting

-       Thursday, 22nd January, 2015 at 9.30 a.m.

Minutes:

Resolved:- That the next meeting of the Health Select Commission be held on Thursday, 22nd January, 2015, commencing at 9.30 a.m.