ABERDEENCITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PARTNERSHIP

EXECUTIVE GROUP

Minute of Meeting

22 February 2013

MarischalCollege, Aberdeen

Present:Bill Howatson, Chairperson; andPaul Dixon (Finance Partner, Aberdeen City Council), Councillor Lesley Dunbar (Aberdeen City Council),Heather Kelman (Aberdeen CHP General Manager), Heather MacRae (Senior Service Manager, Aberdeen CHP), Fred McBride (Director, Social Care and Wellbeing, Aberdeen City Council), and Sandy Reid (Programme Manager).

Apologies:Gordon Edwards (Third Sector Representative), Liz Taylor (Head of Older People and Rehabilitation, Aberdeen City Council) and Neil Whyte (Finance Manager, NHS Grampian).

MINUTE OF PREVIOUS MEETING

1.The Executive Group had before it the minute of its previous meeting of 25 January 2013.

The Executive Group resolved:

to approve the minute as a correct record.

JOINT COMMISSIONING STRATEGY FOR OLDER PEOPLE 2013 – 23

2.The Executive Group had before it a report by Dorothy Askew (Planning and Development Manager (Joint Commissioning)) which presented the Joint Commissioning Strategy for Older People 2013 – 23 and the Joint Commissioning Plan template, both of which were appended to the report. Members intimated that they were content to sign off the template as part of the governance exercise, but that the Plan itself would require to be presented to the NHS Grampian Board (2 April), and the Social Care and Wellbeing Committee (14 March) at the Council. It was agreed that paragraph 1.4 required to be amended prior to submission to the NHS Grampian Board and the SCWB Committee.

The Executive Group resolved:

(i)to agree that the template be signed and submitted for the deadline of 28 February 2013; and

(ii)to note the arrangements of the Council and NHS Grampian in terms of getting the final joint Commissioning Strategy for Older People 2013 – 23 signed off.

ALCOHOL AND DRUGS PARTNERSHIP – QUARTERLY REPORTS

3. With reference to article 4 of the minute of its meeting of 25 July 2012, the Executive Group had before it period 3 reports for the Alcohol and Drugs Partnership.

The Executive Group resolved:

(i)to note the positive figures in the report, and progress being made; and

(ii)to request that Alexander Kelman attend meetings in future to present the reports.

LATEST CAMHS WAITING TIME HEAT TARGET QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT

4.With reference to article 4 of the minute of its meeting of 20 December 2012, the Executive Group had before it the latest quarterly update in respect of children and adolescent mental health services HEAT (Health Improvement, Efficiency, Access to Services and
Treatment) waiting time target.

A discussion took place regarding the information included in the report, and whether this was sufficient in terms of governance arrangements, and also whether the targets were ambitious enough.

The Executive Group resolved:

to request that this be raised with the internal Children’s Partnership, with a report being brought back to this Group in seven months.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INTEGRATION

5.With reference to article 5of the minute of its previous meeting of 25 January 2013, the Executive Grouphad circulated a paper by Heather Kelmanin relation to the future of the Integrated Strategic Management Team which brought members up to date on the re-establishment of this group.

A discussion took place around the Partnership’s relationship with Community Planning, and Fred and Heather undertook to report back to a future meeting on how the groups should work together.

The Executive Group resolved:

(i)to note the paper tabled by Heather on the ISMT; and

(ii)to note that Heather and Fred would report to a future meeting on the relationship between Community Planning and the Partnership.

AGENCY UPDATES

6.The Executive Group was provided with updates as follows –

Aberdeen City Council

Fred McBride brought members up to date with the establishment of the LATC at the Council and the retendering of Homecare contracts and the opportunities this provided the service with.

NHS Grampian

Heather Kelman updated members on the NHS Grampian budget process.

The Executive Group resolved:

to note the updates.

DELAYED DISCHARGES

7.The Executive Group discussed the situation in relation to delayed discharges, with Heather Kelman advising that the quarterly statistics would be available in the next week.

The Executive Group resolved:

to request that Heather collate the available figures in relation to delayed discharge and bring a report back to this Group in due course.

FUTURE WORKSHOPS

8.The Executive group had before it a list of proposed and previously agreed topics for future workshops.

The Executive Group resolved:

that the workshops would cover the following topics –

  • 5 April – Welfare Reform (Fred McBride to lead) and Change Fund (Sandy Reid to lead)
  • 21 June – LATC and cluster working (Fred McBride to lead)
  • 4 October – Health and Social Care Inequalities (Fred McBride and a colleague from Community Planning to lead) and Autism Strategy (Kevin Dawson and Tom Cowan to lead).

BUSINESS STATEMENT

9. The Executive Group had before it the business statement, which had been updated following the meeting of the Executive Group held on 25 January 2013.

The Executive Group resolved:

(i)to delete item 2 (Future Arrangements and Structure of Partnership)) from the business statement; and

(ii)to otherwise note the update as contained within the business statement.

- BILL HOWATSON, Chairperson.