Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Leader

Forward Plan Ref: 2011/204

Contact: Jonathan McWilliam, Director of Public Health Tel: (01865) 336708

 

Report by Director of Public Health (CA8).

 

Cabinet requested to recommend the Council to receive the report and note its recommendations.

The Cabinet considered (CA8) the fifth annual report of the Director of Public Health for Oxfordshire.

 

Olive McIntosh Stedman addressed the Cabinet on behalf of the Oxfordshire Mental Health Crisis Bed Project regarding funding for a crisis house providing respite support for mental health users and carers in cases not considered serious enough for hospital.

 

Responding to Councillor Robertson she confirmed that there were about 10 cases each requiring care 3 times per annum at a total cost of £6,300.

 

Councillor Zoe Patrick referred to the key reference on referrals and the need to minimise time wasted referring people unnecessarily from one part of the system to another.  She welcomed the section on breaking the cycle of deprivation; the high priority to be given to addressing the high percentage of children living in poverty in many areas of Oxfordshire; the fall in the high rates of teenage pregnancy in the City although there were areas still with high rates; improvements in the mental health system particularly for carers and GP commissioning; Oxfordshire’s rating as the sportiest county in England; the encouraging results in the fight against killer disease and the HPV vaccination programme against cervical cancer and stressed the need to continue to concentrate efforts on reducing alcohol addiction.  She acknowledged the hard work in realising all these achievements but stressed the need for work to continue.

 

The Director of Public Health presented his report and the Cabinet Member for Adult Services commended it to the Cabinet.

 

RESOLVED: to RECOMMEND Council to receive the report and note its recommendations.