Agenda item

3:50

10 minutes

Oral reports on activities since the last meeting in July will be presented by:

• The Vice - Chairman of the Children & Young People Partnership Board, Cllr Melinda Tilley (in Dr Keenan’s absence);
• the Chairman of the Adult Health & Social Care Partnership Board, Cllr Mrs Judith Heathcoat; and
• the Chairman of the Health Improvement Partnership Board, Cllr Mark Booty.

Action Required:     To receive updates from each Partnership Board.

Councillor Melinda Tilley, Councillor Judith Heathcoat and Dr Joe McManners each gave oral progress reports on recent activity of each of the three Partnership Boards.

Children & Young People’s Partnership Board

Councillor Tilley reported on a meeting to be held with members of the Partnership Board and the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children’s Board to clarify roles. Further work was also underway to ensure the functions previously held by the Children’s Trust were covered appropriately. Changes to the membership had also occurred to include new PIN  and Young Persons representatives and a representative from the voluntary sector.

The Board had considered the following:

• A paper on outcomes based commissioning for maternity services in Oxfordshire which was now being taken forward;
• The Children & Young People’s Plan for Oxfordshire 2013/14;
• The Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children’s Board Annual Report 2012/13
• Integrated Pathway and Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH).

It had been proposed to hold an extended meeting of the Partnership Board shortly to drive forward the development of the new Children & Young People’s Plan 2014-18. This would engage a wider range of partners.

Adult Health & Social Care Partnership Board

Councillor Mrs Heathcoat and Dr McManners reported on membership changes to include two new Public Involvement Network representatives.

The Partnership Board had considered the following:

• Work that Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council were doing on welfare reform. It had been agreed that the Partnership Board had agreed to monitor the impact of welfare reform for vulnerable groups and a report would be brought back to a future meeting;
• The Older people’s Housing Strategy – Needs Analysis, one of the indicators in the priorities for the Health & Wellbeing Board – the Partnership Board were keen to ensure that the work was being taken account of in other strategies, in particular the district council housing strategies and the work of the OCCG;
• The Joint Health & Wellbeing Strategy – Report on Performance Targets – highlighting the challenges raised by the increase in demand and the changes to services as a result. The Partnership Board had supported the multi-agency approaches and the work being carried out to address the indicators that were not meeting targets;
• The Oxfordshire Joint Older People’s Commissioning Strategy – Programme Board update.

A Mental Health workshop had been jointly organised in October by the Partnership Board and the Better Health in Oxfordshire Programme Board and had been attended by over 60 professionals, service users and carers. It had focused on the links between mental health and physical and other conditions. A number of key actions had emerged from the event. These were:

-           a need for better co-ordination of services, communication between professionals and integration of mental health and drug and alcohol services;

-           Improving of information and setting up information management systems;

-           Reviews about a person’s mental health to be informed by physical health;

-           A mental health lead to be in all GP practices;

-           Consider pooling budgets for mental health and drugs and alcohol; and

-           Closer working arrangements with organisations outside of health and social care, such as housing.

The workshop report would be taken to the OCCG GP Locality Groups and the Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT).

A joint workshop for members of the Partnership Board and the Learning Disability Partnership Board was planned in December to begin the process to update the Big Plan for People with Learning Disabilities. The aim would be to identify the services and processes that were working well and the areas for development. People with learning disabilities, carers, providers and commissioners were to be invited.

Health Improvement Partnership Board

Councillor Mark Booty reported on membership changes to include representation of all the district councils and two PIN representatives.

He reported that the Partnership Board was looking closely on all the outcomes in the performance framework and ensuring that further work is focused on those areas with poorer outcomes.

Work had developed since the last report to the Health & Wellbeing Board on:

• producing a Healthy Weight Strategy;
• a joint Public Health Strategy between the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and a draft strategy was expected in January 2014;
• sharing information on Health Improvement Campaigns – for example, working together on Flu Immunisation campaign and preparing messages on safe consumption of alcohol leading up to Christmas.

One of the Partnership Board’s Working Groups, the Public Health Protection Forum was to meet in December to ensure that immunisations, screening and health protection issues in the county were proceeding well. Also the prevention of early death and promotion of healthy lifestyles would be a topic for discussion at a meeting of the Partnership Board in the new year.

The Partnership Boards were thanked for their reports.