Delivery Board Meeting

Part 1 Public

Monday23rd March2015 at 14.30 to 16.00

Savoy Court, North Harrow

Minutes of the meeting

Welcome, Introductions and Apologies

Part 1 Meeting in Public

/ Action
1.1 / The Chair, Arvind Sharma (AS) opened the meeting with a warm welcome to members of the public and DB members. AS also introduced Christopher Blake and outline the need for a Lead link with NWP & LNWH NHS at future meetings.
Antonetta Fernandes & Jenny Boxalltook notes.
Attendees: Delivery BoardArvind Sharma (AS); Deven Pillay (DP) Heinz Grunewald (HG); Julian Maw (JM) Mark Gillham (MG);Avani Modasia (AM);and Mike Coker (MC)Local authorityCommissioner: Mike Howes, Contractor HolderAsh Verma (HiB Chair)LNWH NHS Trust Representative Christopher Blake
Members of the public in attendance: Absar Ahmad, Hassan Ahmed,Jeffery Austin, Yuet Chan, Nannette Spain, Abu Saud and Jenny Stephany
Apologies: Marie-Claire Sekely (MCS); Lee Janaway(LJ); Tony O’Hara (TO), and Mo Girsch (MG)
2 / Approve minutes of meeting held on 8thDecember2014
2.1 / Minutes approved
3 / Matters Arising
  • Minutes of previous meeting were not on the website as discussed previously all minutes should be on HH website.
  • JSNA
  • Discussions took place on what progress has been made since the presentation at the last board meeting.
  • Actions
  • HH to write to the Senior Manager JSNA requesting an update on the priorities and also requesting attendance at future.
  • AM felt that the letter should also be displayed on the website.
Christopher Blake, Director of Commercial Development, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
  • AS introduced Christopher Blake (CB) as a visitor who will be working with us. HH will be working in partnership with the Trust; CB will attend all our board meetings in Public. He will be the link person.
  • CB gave a brief account of his role, challenges and issues, some of which are listed below:
  • Successfully led the integration of Ealing, Harrow and Brent Community Services into the day to day running of the organisation.
  • Managing the Emergency Care which is different at Northwick Park Hospital and Ealing Hospital. Task is to standardise pathways across the board.
  • Make a business case for more beds – current capacity 65.
  • Standardise the process for Integrated Clinical Department for the organisation
  • Improve patient care
  • Financial Challenges to make cost improvement for next year. Also put a lot of investment into the winter months.
  • Benchmark staff levels – recent staff survey shows 80% would recommend for members to be treated there. Good Morale and positive attitude.
  • All borough – Tender Agenda bidding for services – District Nurses
  • Questions were raised on the following
  • Parking facilities for disabled people at New A&E
  • Ongoing resources with the STARR
  • Engagement with Patient
  • Patient Education – DNA (Do not attend)
/ AF
AS
AS
AS/AA/CB to follow up
4 / Healthwatch Harrow New Contract by Mike Howes LBH
4.1 /
  • Mikes Howes congratulated Healthwatch Harrow on winning the Healthwatch contract – there were 2 other applications.
  • Harrow council would like HWH to develop greater accessibility to the public across the borough, to have a wider reach over Harrow using the Hubs
  • The council were also interested in Healthwatch Harrow developing Wellbeing in the Workplace.
  • Mike Howes also confirmed that Harrow Council liked the Healthwatch model of working with partners on the delivery board feeding back to HWH.
  • Question was raised by member of the public regarding the cuts to the HWH contract. Mike confirmed that Harrow Council felt that the cut was justified and allowed them to fund another organisation (Domestic Violence).
/ AS/AV/MH to follow up
Next Meeting – Wednesday 1st July 2015 at 2pm
Savoy Court, North Harrow

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