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No disclosures of interest were received.
No declarations were made.
Panel agreed the Minutes of the meeting on 11 December 2024 as an accurate record of the meeting.
Letter to Cabinet Member following the meeting on 11 December 2024 was noted.
Questions received from one member of the public. Chair stated the question relates largely to a specific complaint and the Panel does not look at individual complaint cases. However, it does raise some important issues and concerns. Cabinet Member agreed to look into the concerns, provide a response to the member of the public and copy in the Panel. Actions: Cabinet Member to provide written response to member of the public.
Louise Gibbard, Cabinet Member for Care Services and relevant officers attended to update the Panel on the Performance Monitoring Report for November 2024. Discussion Points: · Panel informed of some changes being made to the format of future reports. · Performance indicators appear to show implementation of the assessment and care management structure at the end of last year has made a positive impact on the common access point. · Number of reviews completed has remained pretty static. Department hoped it would have improved with implementation of new structure so doing piece of work to try and understand why. · Department is adopting a new approach with regard to DoLS, and this will be rolled out over the next month. They expect to see a reduction over time. · Panel asked questions about performance on reviews, impact on clients of overdue reviews, Common Access Point workload, discharge from hospital figures, two queries from SIRF Panel. Actions: · Overall level of hospital discharges to be included in future Performance Monitoring Reports. · Cabinet Member to provide written response to queries from SIRF Panel.
Louise Gibbard, Cabinet Member for Care Services and Lucy Friday, Interim Head of Adult Services and Tackling Poverty attended to update the Panel which included an overview of the Programme, the priorities and progress to date. Discussion Points: · Transformation Programme focuses on improving care services, ensuring people can live well and independently in the community for longer. There are three priorities - Prevention, Promoting Independence and Prioritising Resources. · Huge progress is being made against the challenging backdrop of huge financial constraints and increasing demand for services. · A key part of the early help and prevention model is to have more emphasis on building up people’s resistance in terms of their community connections to make sure they have got the support around them to help them before getting to the stage of going into hospital, coming out of hospital and needing care. · Panel asked about impact of growth in dementia, discharges from hospital and ‘bed blocking’ and pooled budgets.
Panel considered the work plan and agreed a future item to look in more depth at discharges from hospital and the step-down process and how Health and Social Care work collaboratively on this issue. Panel discussed and agreed a suggestion from the Chair of undertaking informal visits to some establishments to see what is happening on the ground. Chair will circulate a proposal / timetable. Actions: · Add item on ‘Discharge from Hospital and Step-Down Process’ to work plan for 2025-26. · Proposed timetable of visits to be circulated to Panel Members.
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