Managed Clinical Network for Eating Disorders
MINUTES of the MCN Steering Group held on Thursday 25th February 2016 in The Fulton Clinic Meeting Room, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen
Present: Linda Keenan, Neil Laurenson, Jane Morris, Sandra Phillip-Rafferty, Marie McKimmie, Sam Aitcheson, Pauline Milne, Lesley Pillans, Kandarp Joshi, Louise Johnston
Via VC Paula Collin, Lesley Dolan, Neil Fraser (NHS Tayside)
Laura Hulse (NHS Highland)
Minutes taken by: Alison Sherriffs
No / Item / Action1 / Apologies
Heather Cassie, Rachael Smith, Alastair McKinlay, Anne Fraser, Phil Crockett, Almarie Harmse
2 / Minutes of Previous Meeting
Accepted as accurate.
3 / Matters Arising
LK to follow up inviting Dr Joy Olver and Dr Nick Dunne to attend future MCN Meetings.
LK to email PCr re feedback from Significant Incident Analysis / LK
LK
4 / Updates
Training & Educational Meetings
· Grampian EDS are currently holding educational meetings in-house. If other departments wished to join they could. Topic suggestions are required. LP/SA to liaise regarding dates. Currently meetings take place on the third Thursday of each month and follows the weekly team meeting. Highland and Tayside currently have no budget for training, travel expenses, etc and this is not likely to change in the foreseeable future. There is no suggestion of any restrictions for Grampian in this area but there is tightening up of courses available. It was thought that the MCN could look at holding more training days.
· Upcoming educational meetings are:-
IPT Training – 18th April (5 day course)
Scottish Parliament Conference – 26th February
SEDIG Carer’s Conference – 27th February
CAMHS GP Conference – 14th March
CAMHS Conference – 18th May in Dundee
EEATS Supervisor’s Day – 30th September in Glasgow
EEATS Trainee’s Day – 2nd December / LP/SA
5 / Service Developments (by Region)
Highland
· Still no Consultant and post hasn’t been advertised
· Have a new Lower Psychiatry Trainee for a few months
· Gill Hasson is doing an extra day a week
· About to pilot POD system
· JM offered to have a discussion with Highland Management regarding the situation with the Consultant post
Grampian
· Neil Laurenson has returned to the service
· Physio post has been filled by Sandra Phillip-Rafferty
· Sally Hill has taken up the CBT Therapist post
· Louise Johnston will be returning in a few months
Tayside
· Appointed new Dietitian – Karen Farquhar.
· Full-time Band 6 Nurse Brian Grieve has retired.
· Nadine Bambury, Team Secretary is going on maternity leave in the Summer
· Currently generating a bit of a waiting list
· Confirmed that they are moving to 15 Dudhope Terrace around June or July
· PCollin has been doing some teaching work
· Dundee based NEEDS Group are going from strength to strength
· Currently have 3 patients in The Priory with one to the discharged next week
· PCollin to send some dates to LK to arrange an MCN visit
Patient and Carer – Report from NEEDS Group
· Continues to attract new group members, both in Dundee with the new group and in Aberdeen
· Getting increasing contacts by email and website continues to get a good number of hits per week
· Had generous donations from Asda, John Lewis and the Co-op and also a group of Ellon mum’s who heard about what we do. Also continue to be supported by Rosehill Branch of the TSB in a charity partnership which has been extended until May 2016. Not only have bank staff raised money for us but they have also participated in a couple of events we have held.
· Continue to explore the prospect of a monthly arts and crafts group and have found a possible location at Rosemount Community Centre.
· Held a Charity Partnership event on 13th February at Ceramika with our TSB Partners which was a great success.
· Unfortunately lost 2 volunteers, however recently been contacted by 2 more which is great.
· Group sessions more pro-active at the moment with a core of regular members keen to make a few changes.
· Busy with the Youth Philanthropy Initiative which continues to help raise awareness in schools.
· Bridging the Gap report well attended meetings but find it difficult to get volunteers available due to work and uni commitments.
· Hoped to hold a wellbeing day in May but can see this being postponed! Hoping to have a workshop from the charity BodyGossip and possibly presentations on Mindfulness and Yoga but contacting people is proving difficult
CAMHS
· The new National Steering Group continues to progress
· Have applied for funding to progress FBT
· Wood group have just donated some monies as well which will be added to the Caroline Robertson Memorial Fund
· In NHSG – the frontline patient treatment for ED would be FBT
· Wood Group have allocated money to CAMHS in a bid for Healthcare Support.
· Holding a GP Conference in March and a CAMHS Conference in May
· YPD in Dundee are currently down 1 Consultant
· Noticing better transitions with Grampian EDS
Eden Unit
· Currently have a good nursing compliment
· Band 7 OT is going on maternity leave
· Social Worker is currently on maternity leave
· Art Psychotherapist retires at the end of March
· Band 5 OT is leaving to go travelling
· Nurses are keen to do more training and are very enthusiastic
· Louise Johnston has returned to the team for 6 months
· Lesley Pillans has been busy with lots of medical students
· Lesley Pillans and Phil Crockett have been doing some Year 3 Teaching / JM
PCollin
6 / Audit & Quality Assurance
· Neil Fraser had requested a review of the MCN and a sub-group is being set up to take this forward
· Grampian team said that they would welcome an MCN visit
· Quality Assurance Minutes are to be put on the MCN Website
Current Audit Projects
· PSQ – Louise Johnston is to speak to PCrockett about where this goes next
· Outcome Measures – Med Student is going to analyze HADS etc. / LK
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LR
7 / M & M Reviews
There has been 1 M & M Review since the last MCN Meeting. Patient had to go to The Priory as there were no beds in Eden Unit. JM advised that any requests for these Reviews were to be sent to the MCN.
8 / AOCB
No Delays
Following the recent MCN Annual Clinical Event a discussion took place as to whether the MCN would be prepared to commit any budget to this project. It was agreed that we should look at all the audio visuals we currently have and go back to Jamie Hogg and ask for an idea of the costs involved.
VC Kit for TEDS
The group would welcome honouring the original agreement to provide a VC kit for Tayside and PCollin is to find out costs and send Invoice to the MCN.
Physical Monitoring in Primary Care
SA advised that some GP practices in Grampian were unwilling to undertake physical monitoring and the problems this is causing. Unfortunately we ran out of time to discuss this item but SA is to send an email to the group regarding this. / PCollin
SA
9 / Date and Time for next Meeting
The next meeting is to take place on Thursday 26th May 2016 from 12noon – 2pm in the Fulton Clinic Meeting Room.
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