ANNEX 2

Performance Concerns	Action	Key Person(s)	
•	Educational achievements of children in public care
	Known area of weakness.  PSA target.  Review of action in light of continued weak performance.
	Phil Hodgson
Gillian Tee
	
•	Eligibility criteria and thresh-holds
	Quarterly reports on staff vacancies benchmark performance with national picture (Nov. 03)
	Vicky Field
Phil Hodgson
	
•	Completion of core assessments	Extra resources put in from April 2003.  A continued area of concern.  A budget priority for 04/05.
	Phil Hodgson	
•	Development of targets for improving CAHMS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service)
	Children’s Partnership Board will do this	Phil Hodgson	
•	Review of children in public care
	Monitored monthly and kept under close review
	Phil Hodgson	
•	Recording ethnicity of users	Emphasis on importance of this by managers	Phil Hodgson

•	Ensuring availability of interpreting services	
Done	
Phil Hodgson	
•	Develop and implement Access to Care teams
	Completed November 2003	Lorna Brown	
•	Integration of intermediate care teams	Will be completed by April 2004	Lorna Brown
	
•	Delayed discharges	20% reduction in delays in Community hospitals since April 2003.  No patients currently subject to reimbursement.  Work in hand on other issues
	Lorna Brown/Nick Welch	
•	Reduce ‘red lights’ in mental health	Integration of Mental Health Services with NHS Trust achieved 4th November.  Pooled budget April 2004	Nick Welch/Lorna Brown	
•	Increase number of clients receiving intensive home care
	Numbers have increased by more than four-fold	Lorna Brown	
•	Reduction in numbers of learning disabled people and people with physical disability supported in the community
	Comment based on inaccurate figures.  Revised figures show no fall and point accepted by SSI	Lorna Brown	
•	High level of shared rooms in residential care
	Acknowledged.  Improvements will be achieved through work of the Oxfordshire Care Partnership	Nick Welch	
•	High waiting time for Occupational Therapy	Acknowledged.  Extra resources put into service in 03/04	Lorna Brown