Agenda item

Resolved:-  That the minutes of the meeting held on 8^th July, 2015, be approved as a correct record.

The Chairman drew attention to the following matters :-

(a)  Street Play – Board Members had been invited to a Health and Wellbeing Seminar to be held in Leeds on 21^st September, 2015 by Play England.

The objective of the seminar was to support Health and Wellbeing and Transport stakeholders from across the North to understand how Street Play was helping to achieve Public Health outcomes in the community.  The project was growing with residents in 35 local authority areas now being supported to activate Street Play in their community and more than 300 streets closed by residents for street play sessions every week in England.

(b)  CaMHS were currently implementing its Transformation Plan and would need to be signed off by the Board and the CCG.  The Board would hopefully do this at its 30^th September meeting

(c)  The British Medical Association had issued a press release on 10^th August regarding GP numbers and recruitment in the context of introducing 7 day working. 

The Health Select Commission had carried out a Scrutiny Review on Access to GPs (Minute No. 10 of 8^th July refers).  Councillor Sansome, Chair of the Select Commission, offered to circulate a copy of the Commission’s final report to Board members.

Julie Kitlowski reported that Jacqui Tuffnell, Primary Care Co-Commissioning Team, was to attend a future Board meeting and present the CCG Strategy on how to attempt to manage this serious problem both nationally and locally.  The Strategy would talk about how other professionals could/should be used to step into the workforce until the appropriate number of GPs were trained/recruited.  Rotherham in theory, in terms of numbers, was not under number.

A wider issue the Board ought to consider was how to make Rotherham a more attractive place to live and work not just for GPs but Public Health professionals, teachers, social workers etc.

(d)  A letter had been drafted to the Local Government Association in relation to their offer for support on health and social care (Minute No. 11 of 8^th July refers).  The Chair and Vice was to meet with the Systems Specialist Group in September.

(e)  It was noted that the Adult Social Services Working Party had arranged a series of visits including North-East Lincs and Barnsley to see good practice.  An invitation to join the visits had been extended to the Health Select Commission and to Board members.

(f)  It was noted that consultation on Drugs and Alcohol Public Expenditure had commenced with details on the website.  Terri Roche would ascertain if partners had been notified of the revised timetable.

(Following the meeting it was established that consultation would be commencing with key stakeholders on 7^th September which would include Board members, the Safer Rotherham Partnership, providers of Drugs and Alcohol Services in Rotherham, GPs, Pharmacists, LMC and LPC members, Service User Forum, Commissioning Group members and members of the Recovery Hub Management Group.

The consultation would focus upon the proposal to commission a Recovery Service that combined the current Service with the Peer Mentor Service, making efficiencies with that integration and the proposal to reduce shared care provision in Primary Care for drug users by the amalgamation of up to 11 practices (48 patients) into the remaining 17 practice clinics.

Stakeholders would receive an e-mail with a link to further information and an online survey to complete.  The consultation was for 12 weeks (up to the end of November).  As the on-line element was being managed by the Website Team, reminders would be issued to those who had not accessed the initial e-mail periodically.)

(g)  Gordon Laidlaw would ascertain that details of the Choose Well campaign had been provided to the South Yorkshire Police emergency response telephone operators.