Agenda item

Discussion:

The Democratic Services Officer notified the Committee that, following a reference from this Committee’s last meeting, there was a discussion at the meeting of Regeneration, Community and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 29 September 2015 about the possible use of vacant land at Gillingham Business Park for parking of lorries, as they were causing problems for patients wishing to access Medway Community Healthcare’s premises there.  Unfortunately the owner of the vacant land was currently unwilling for the land to be used for parking lorries.  However, discussions with the landowner were continuing and officers were requested to continue to monitor the situation via parking and community wardens. 

Discussion then took place about the need for urgency for NHS Medway CCG to bring to Committee the report on the Personality Disorder Service.  A request was made that for the Chief Clinical Officer, NHS Medway CCG to make contact with the Deputy Director, Children and Adults Services and the Democratic Services Officer within the next two weeks to set a date for the report to be brought forward.

Decision: 

The Committee:

(a)  agreed the action requested at the pre-agenda meeting as follows:

-       A report be added to the business for 17 December 2015 meeting on the full Care Quality Commission inspection report of Medway NHS Foundation Trust

-       The dementia commissioning intentions report be submitted  to the17 December 2015 meeting

-       A briefing note would be circulated on the Death from Drug Addiction Group.

(b)  agreed, subsequent to the visit to Medway NHS Foundation Trust, that the following information would be supplied:

-       A joint report from Medway NHS Foundation Trust and Children and Adults Services setting out examples of the complete pathway of care from admission to discharge, explaining, from both perspectives, problem areas where patients were being held in the system causing a delay in their discharge.  It was suggested that it could also be helpful for the Committee to meet the Integrated Discharge Team in this regard.

-       A report from Medway NHS Foundation Trust setting out the approach to the provision of free television access and television access generally across the wards particularly with regards to over 75s who were not required to pay for television licences in the community.  (This was highlighted as an issue particularly where patients were bed bound and had no access to wifi either, it was considered there could be a lack of mental stimulation while they remained in hospital).

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(c)  noted that there would be a report on the Personality Disorder Service to a future meeting of the Committee; (with details of timings to be notified to the Deputy Director, Children and Adults Services and Democratic Services Officer within the next two weeks);

(d)  noted the response from the meeting of Regeneration, Community and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee as set out in the discussion above;

(e)  noted the agreed approach for scrutinising Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust would be:

“To scrutinise the service in the round and the analysis of all the community services in order to test whether the community interventions have been successful”.