Agenda and draft minutes

The Chairman, Councillor Judith Heathcoat, welcomed everyone to the meeting.

Apologies for absence were received from Lorraine Foley – Director of Commissioning and Partnerships, OCCG and Fenella Trevillion - Assistant Director Older People, OCCG was a temporary appointment in her place.

There were no declarations of interest.

There were no petitions.

To approve the Note of Decisions of the meeting held on                 (AHSCB5) and to receive information arising from them.

The note of the last meeting was approved with the following amendment:

Page 4 - clarification on Item 20 Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy – the impact health inequalities across Oxfordshire will have on the indicators should be taken account of if possible. Targets should be adjusted where possible to take account of different levels of need, deprivation, etc in different geographical areas in the County.

Matters Arising

Page 2 - Item 5, page 4 – Developing Community Services to Support People to Live Independently at Home – these agreed actions are now part of the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group blueprint “Healthier at Home” and the draft action plan for the joint Oxfordshire Older People’s Commissioning Strategy.

It was AGREED this would be an item on future agendas.

John Jackson suggested that the above could be covered by the formal reports from the bi- monthly Older People’s Joint Management Group coming to the Adult Health and Social Care Partnership Boards as well. 

3:10

20 minutes

People responsible: Members of the Adult Health and Social Care Partnership Board

Report presented by: Sara Livadeas, Deputy Director, Oxfordshire County Council

Report attached at AHSCB6.

Action: To consider progress on improving and maintaining the Quality Assurance of Health and Social Care.

Sara Livadeas introduced the report on the Quality Assurance of Health and Social Care which was an update on progress following on from the original report to the Board in November 2012.

Anna Badcock asked how complaints about service providers were monitored. Sara said that this function had recently been moved from the Contract Management to the Complaints Team to ensure a more co-ordinated approach.

It was AGREED that Sara would check what the Complaints Team had done to publicise the change.

There was discussion on ensuring quality in care homes and agencies providing domiciliary care, particularly around how best to support smaller providers.

Fenella Trevillion said that with more contracts with service providers becoming part of the older people’s pooled budget arrangements it should be possible to get a better idea of the health and social care issues coming up as a result of more joint contract monitoring.

Joe McManners suggested that OCC and OCCG move towards shared monitoring procedures and processes for all contracts with service providers.

It was AGREED that the next update on progress to the Board should be a joint OCC and OCCG report.

3:30

20 minutes

People responsible: Members of the Adult Health and Social Care Partnership Board

Report presented by: Sara Livadeas, Deputy Director, Oxfordshire County Council

Report attached at AHSCB7.

Action: To discuss the opportunities available to join up  information and advice provision.

Sara Livadeas introduced the report saying that the provision of good quality information and advice was a key cross cutting theme in the Joint Older People’s Commissioning Strategy.

Board members stressed that information and advice should be provided simply and clearly in one place and should cover health, social care and the district councils.

Sara said that this co-ordinated approach could be taken forward through the steering group for the new Oxfordshire Community Network service which included District Councils, libraries, voluntary organisations, etc.

3:50

20 minutes

People responsible: Members of the respective Boards

Report presented by: Robyn Noonan, Strategy and Performance Service Manager, Oxfordshire County Council

Report attached at AHSCB8.

Action: To note the process for consultation on the proposed outcomes in the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy and consider if there are any further recommendations on outcomes and measures for 2013/14, further to the discussion at the last Board meeting.

Robyn Noonan reported on the consultation process for the proposed outcomes for the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy in 2013/14 and asked for further clarity on the proposed priorities for adults.

The Board AGREED the following:

Points agreed at the May Board meeting:

Priority 5 – tool to be developed for identifying highest risk patients – Fenella Trevillion suggested using the tool being developed by Community Teams.

Priority 6 – timely and responsive – agreed to develop this measure

Proposed priorities in the consultation:

6.6 and 6.7 – keep both indicators

6.10 – bring the date forward as the analysis is taking place now

7.9 and 7.10 – change the language to combine the two indicators

Priority 10 – targets could be increased in line with current  performance of district councils

4:10

10 minutes

People responsible: members of the Adult Health and Social Care Partnership Board

Report presented by: Trish Thomas, Commissioning Officer, Oxfordshire County Council

Report attached at AHSCB9.

Action: To note the report and recommendations from the workshop.

Sara Livadeas introduced the report on the Carers Strategy Implementation Plan Workshop which was well attended and lively.  In general there was broad support for the actions in the Implementation Plan.

Board members thanked everyone involved in the workshop and agreed the number of carers attending the event was very welcome.

4:20

10 minutes

People responsible: Members of the respective Boards

Oral report presented by Glenda Daniels, PIN Representative and Alison Partridge, Public Engagement Manager, Oxfordshire County Council

Glenda Daniels reported that the review of the first year of the PIN would be completed shortly.

The election of two new representatives for the Board would take place over the summer.

4:30

20 minutes

People responsible: members of the Adult Health and Social Care Partnership Board

Report presented by: Ian Bottomley, Assistant Director Adults, Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group

Report attached at AHSCB11.

Action: To note the report and highlight any areas for further consideration.

Fenella Trevillion and Ian Bottomley introduced the report which set out Oxfordshire’s mental health commissioning intentions for 2013-14 and the focus on outcomes based commissioning and the review of psychological therapies.

Judith Heathcoat asked that reports to the board either contained no acronyms or explained them in a glossary.

The Board AGREED that its next workshop on 19 September would focus on mental health and the outcomes from the workshop would feed into the discussion at the Mental Health Joint Management Group on 26 September.  

4:50

5 minutes

People responsible: members of the Adult Health and Social Care Partnership Board

Action: A proposed Forward Plan is attached for consideration.

The Forward Plan was AGREED.

John Jackson suggested a presentation on funding reform should be on the agenda of the next meeting. It was AGREED to begin the meeting at 2pm on 10 October with John delivering the presentation.

John AGREED to attend meeting of the 50 Plus Network and Age UK to talk about funding reform.