Little Hulton & Walkden Neighbourhood Partnership Board – 13th January 2011

LITTLE HULTON AND WALKDEN NEIGHBOURHOOD PARTNERSHIP BOARD

ACTION SHEET ARISING FROM THE MEETING HELD ON24TH FEBRUARY 2011

PRESENT:Councillor Smyth – in the Chair

Councillors L & N Turner, P Ryan, E Burgoyne, I Lindley,

Sergeant Jason Wilkinson, Aled Owen,Mrs V Burgoyne,Karen Proctor (Assistant Director of Commissioning, NHS Salford), S Phillips.

Danny Mulvihill (Integrated Youth Support Services Manager),Julie Blagden(Strategic Neighbourhood Manager)Claire Fewings,(Assistant Neighbourhood Manager), Nicky Winkley (Salford Community Leisure) Helen Oldland (Democratic Services)

Item / Decision / Action to be taken by
1. Apologies for absence / Councillor Smyth welcomed all those in attendance and introductions were made.
Apologies were noted from V Nash, G Lightford, Dr Umeadi, S Canning.
2. Action Sheet and matters arising from the meeting of the Little Hulton and Walkden Neighbourhood Partnership Board held on 13th January 2011. / Apologies from S Phillips for this meeting were noted.
Matters Arising
WalkdenTown Centre Improvements
With regard to the entrance scheme for BlackleachCountryPark it was noted that initial sketches had been bought to Community Committee on the 31st January. A proposal was put forward to invite the officers involved to attend at the April meeting of the Board in order to provide an update to members with regard to this scheme.
Claire Fewings noted the concerns expressed with regard to disabled access to the park and indicated that she would feed these back to the relevant officers.
Item no 4
Claire Fewings stated that dialogue was ongoing in respect of collaborative working with the NHS and members would be given an update at the next meeting.
It was noted that minutes from the Walkden Town Centre Summit meetings had not been submitted to the Board for some time and a request was made for the last set of minutes to be distributed to members. / Peter O’Hare/Paul Gill/Helen Oldland
Claire Fewings
Claire Fewings/Vincent Nash
Claire Fewings/Helen Oldland
3. Community Safety Update / Sergeant J Wilkinson updated members with regard to the latest police operations in the area stating that a significant number of arrests had taken place with varying amounts of drugs and cash seized.
January Figs 2011 / January Figs 2010
Burglaries / 16 / 21
Robberies / 6 / 1
Motor Vehicles / 4 / 7
Theft / 16 / 24
Antisocial Behaviour / 152 / 194
Thanks were expressed to Sergeant Wilkinson and the police for keeping the members well informed with regard to incidents occurring in the area.
4. Further development of collaborative working with the NHS / Karen Proctor raised the issue of the many forthcoming changes currently taking place within the NHS and enquired of the members of the board how they would like to be kept informed and updated of these.
The 3 main areas were;-
  • Changes in the NHS and their implications/impact
  • Future of local Health Services
  • Commissioning role of GP’s
The wealth of information included in the Neighbourhood Health Profiles was discussed and in order to make this information available to all members it was decided that the web link to these and other useful documents would be emailed out to members via the clerk.
Discussions ensued in respect of the future of the Walk In Centres, the changes currently taking place within Urgent Care settings, better use of resources, GP appointment systems (availability of) and accessibility issues (transport and opening times).
Karen Proctor answered many questions that were raised by the members and it was decided that, an extra ordinary meeting of the board would meet to consider the main issues that had been highlighted during discussion of this topic.
These included the following;-
  • GP’s accessibility including out of hours
  • The consultation processes undertaken
  • Decision making processes and timescales
  • Factors influencing the standardisation of GP appointment systems
  • Neighbourhood Health Profiles
Karen Proctor would liaise with the clerk to arrange a suitable date and time for a meeting in March which would then be communicated out to members. / Karen Proctor/Helen Oldland
Karen Proctor/Helen Oldland
5Any Other Business / The issue of pedestrian accessibility to Tesco from the existing bus routes was highlighted and Claire Fewings indicated that she would follow this up.
Julie Blagden advised that she was aware that a number of concerns had been expressed relating to buildings and services in the Little Hulton area. It was agreed that the Neighbourhood Management Team would lead on ascertaining accurate information.
Julie is hopeful to provide a clearer update at the next meeting. / Claire Fewings
6. Date of next meeting / An extra meeting, to take place in March and to focus on NHS issues was to be arranged and communicated out to members.
The date of the next scheduled meeting was confirmed as ;-
Thursday 28th April 2011 at 12pm in Community Room 2 at Walkden Gateway.

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