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Minutes of four meetings, Harrogate Pavilions July 17th 2014

Committee members present

Liz Collling (LC) / Lorraine Gell (LG) / Derek Clarke (DC)
Ian Dean (ID) / Richard Harrison (RH) / Bhavin Morjaria(BM)
Gill Treharne (GT) / Annette Mauder (AM) / Elliot Goran (EG)
Samina Khan (SK) / Warren Cunningham (WC) / Tom Hajdas (TH)
Shaun Davies (SD)

Other attendees

Hazel Marsden (HM) / David Broome (DB) PSNC regional representative

Apologies

Tamzin Burn (TB) / Adnan Yousaf (AY) / Constance Pillar(CP)

Minutes of the LPC meeting open section

Item number / lead
8.0 / Business items
8.1 / EPS update
ID attended a project board meeting in early June, and it was agreed that the LPC should arrange a further EPS event for Scarborough. This was agreed to be on 15/9/14 (see 3.3)
Support – now agreed AT will fund support from CSU. This support will be a pharmacy visit to each local pharmacy 6-8 weeks prior to a surgery go-live and again on the go-live day to ensure they can receive and download prescriptions. There will also be an element of support after the go-live period.
ID has signed off on the proposed business case for this support as a project board member. / ID
9.0 / Commissioners items
9.1 / Area Team update
LC briefed the committee on the update we had been given on 23/6/14 by Geoff Day (see Ch.Officer report) / LC
9.2 / LPN
RH and DC attended the first LPN meeting. Membership still to be sorted once expressions of interest have been sent out. The meeting focused on the LPN vision; DC to circulate updated vision document once received. RH to attend the next meeting with DC if membership still not finalised.
Call to action, 700 responses received nationally by NHS England. Summary to be published shortly. / DC
9.3 / VoY CCG.
The opportunity for CCGs to explore possibilities and develop plans around co-commissioning of primary care services, in parallel with their local area team and wider stakeholders, was communicated in the press release of 1st May and letter of 9th May from NHS England. NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group have expressed an interest.
Meeting with Shaun O’Connell was cancelled and re-scheduled for July 23rd.EG and HM to attend. / EG/HM
9.4 / HR&W CCG
Meeting with Dr Charles Parker and Sam Hayward – see Ch.Officers report.
Follow up meeting to be arranged after the strategy has been published.
Drs Rogers & Horner contacted regarding the Challenge fund bid by a GP consortia to see how pharmacy can fit in, and what additional opening hours might be required to be commissioned. They have not finalised which surgeries are going to be open for what hours but will contact us as soon as they have. Meanwhile Sam Hayward from CCG has contacted HM to find mechanism of how they get extended pharmacy hours; put in contact with area team to discuss. Uncertainty as to who would fund the extra OOH enhanced service, presumably funding will be out of their bid funds. / HM
9.5 / Scarborough & Ryedale CCG
LC attended a follow up meeting to discuss proposals raised in initial meeting.
CCG to attend EPS event to introduce themselves
Enhanced service for OOH emergency supply of medicines at NHS expenses nearly agreed, just need to finalise some issues.
CCG to attend Jan LPC meeting to do a 90 mins working session on future working and a joint business plan.
It was agreed it would be good to have each CCG attend a separate LPC meeting for similar sessions. / LC
9.6 / Craven CCG – CPWY have finalised the minor ailment scheme “ Pharmacy first” which will cover the Airedale Craven CCG area and this has just been signed off. This is to extend the Bradford scheme to cover the Craven and Airedale area. / HM
9.7 / Harrogate CCG – Jane Baxter contacted again to set up a meeting to discuss strategy and pharmacy involvement. They have asked us to contact them again late July. / HM
9.8 / North Yorkshire CC
Meeting arranged with Director of PH on July 31st , at his request. To be at Boroughbridge pharmacy with GT and HM.
The alcohol strategy group have approved a pharmacy brief intervention scheme along the lines of the LPC proposal and will forward to the LPC for consideration. This is for the whole on NY, not just Scarborough as originally proposed, as the new Drug and alcohol service will improve access to alcohol dependency treatment services. Following the procurement process for a drug and alcohol service, North Yorkshire County Council will award the following contracts:
Lot 1 – Recovery & Mentoring Service will be awarded to Lifeline Project
Lifeline Project has forty year’s experience of managing drug and alcohol services with criminal justice expertise. Lifeline will be working with Changing Lives – again a highly specialist drug and alcohol provider - to deliver the Recovery and Mentoring aspect of the new service. This will involve things like peer mentor programmes and integration of activities within local communities, all of which are known to support recovery
Lot 2 – Treatment Service will be awarded to DISC.
DISC has been assisting people and their communities in the North to deal with unemployment, poverty, crime, addiction, homelessness and family breakdown for over 25 years. DISC will be working with the Cambridge Centre and Spectrum to deliver the drug and alcohol treatment aspect of the new service – both are also highly specialist drug and alcohol treatment service providers.
Together they bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the task of helping people successfully recover from substance misuse. There will be a single point of contact to the service and it will be localised.
Stop Smoking – the service is being reviewed and a meeting set up with Gill Treharne to discuss. Emma Davies has requested a slot in the September LPC meeting to give us the findings of the review and get our opinion on the proposed strategy.
EHC training – they have commissioned the CSU to undertake accreditation training and events have been set up for Harrogate and Scarborough this month. Details circulated via LPC by email. / HM
9.9 / City of York CC
Drug misuse – carrying on as normal, not up for tender.
Sexual Health – same as NY. The procurement process is still under way.
EHC training – they are proposing to use the declaration of competence route for accreditation. Discussed under 3.3
10.0 / Any other business
There was no other business

Minutes of the AGM open session

1.0 / Minutes of the last meeting:
These were accepted and formally adopted
2.0 / Matters Arising:
There were no matters arising
3.0 / Annual Report:
This had been posted on the website and the link circulated via email and in the Newsletter to contractors. Copies were also available at the event. No questions were raised. The annual report was therefore accepted.
4.0 / Annual Financial Report:
Copies of the finalised accounts were distributed to all present as well as posted on the website along with a postal voting form and the link circulated via email and in the Newsletter to contractors. There were no questions and no postal votes received. The accounts therefore were accepted.
5.0 / Any Other Business:
There was no further business

This was followed by a presentation by Inspector Helen Jackson on GPhC standards which was attended by approximately 75 pharmacists and technicians. (buffet sponsored by Ferring Pharmaceuticals)

Next Meetings , : Sep 18th , Nov 20th day time at the Crown Hotel Boroughbridge.

January 22nd 2015 in Scarborough, afternoon meeting with possible evening contractor event. Venue to be confirmed.

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