Venue: Committee Room, First Floor, BCP Civic Centre Annex, St Stephen's Rd, Bournemouth BH2 6LL. View directions
Contact: Louise Smith, Email: louise.smith@bcpcouncil.gov.uk Email: democratic.services@bcpcouncil.gov.uk
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Apologies To receive any apologies for absence from Councillors. Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Cllr Hazel Allen and Louise Bates. Cllr Jackie Edwards attending virtually forgoing any voting rights. |
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Substitute Members To receive information on any changes in the membership of the Committee.
Note – When a member of a Committee is unable to attend a meeting of a Committee or Sub-Committee, the relevant Political Group Leader (or their nominated representative) may, by notice to the Monitoring Officer (or their nominated representative) prior to the meeting, appoint a substitute member from within the same Political Group. The contact details on the front of this agenda should be used for notifications.
Minutes: Cllr Karen Rampton substituted for Cllr Hazel Allen. |
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Declarations of Interests Councillors are requested to declare any interests on items included in this agenda. Please refer to the workflow on the preceding page for guidance. Declarations received will be reported at the meeting. Minutes: Cllr Sharon Carr-Brown declared a personal interest as her husband was a non-executive director on Integrated Care Board for the Dorset area and as a support worker for an autistic man who was in receipt of direct payments from BCP Council, Cllr Joe Salmon declared a personal interest as an employee of Dorset Healthcare and a member of Unison, Cllr Chris Matthew declared an interest as his wife worked for the Alzheimer’s Society and Cllr Lesley Dedman declared an interest as a Board Member of Age Concern Christchurch UK and a Board Member of Christchurch Housing Association. |
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To confirm the Minutes of the meeting held on 27 November 2023. Minutes: The Minutes of the meeting held on 27 November 2023 were confirmed as an accurate record and signed by the Chair. |
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To consider the Committee’s action sheet. Minutes: The action sheet was noted. |
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Public Issues To receive any public questions, statements or petitions submitted in accordance with the Constitution. Further information on the requirements for submitting these is available to view at the following link:-
The deadline for the submission of public questions is 3 clear working days before the meeting. The deadline for the submission of a statement is midday the working day before the meeting. The deadline for the submission of a petition is 10 working days before the meeting.
Minutes: There were no public issues received on this occasion. |
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Day Opportunities Strategy To provide an update on the current status of the Day Opportunities Strategy Project. Additional documents:
Minutes: The Commissioning Manager – Day Opportunities presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'A' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.
The Committee received an update on the current status of the Day Opportunities Strategy Project.
The Committee discussed the report and comments were made, including:
It was Proposed and Seconded to add a c) to the recommendation as ... view the full minutes text for item 47. |
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BCP Carers Strategy Update The report is to update Committee members on the progress on the BCP Carers Strategy, 1 year on from its approval. Additional documents:
Minutes: The Strategic Commissioning Manager for Prevention and Wellbeing and Head of Service, Access and Carers presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'B' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.
The report was to update Committee members on the progress on the BCP Carers Strategy, one year on from its approval.
The Committee discussed the report and comments were made, including:
RECOMMENDED that the Committee note and scrutinise the contents of the report.
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Health inequalities – background briefing This briefing is to help Committee inform its future work programme. Especially how health and care services respond to reducing inequalities in health. Health inequalities are avoidable and unjust differences in health between groups of people. They are unjust because they don’t happen by chance. This means we can change them. There may be specific causes, such as lack of access to services, or timely diagnosis of disease. Or wider social factors such as income, education, housing or environmental factors. BCP council has a statutory duty to assess and respond to health inequalities. So do our NHS organisations and partners in the integrated care system. This paper gives an overview of what we know about health inequalities in BCP Council. It considers different approaches to how to reduce them. It takes stock of local progress, and it highlights areas that Committee may wish to review in the future. Minutes: The Director of Public Health presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'C' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.
The purpose of the report was to enable Members to understand the main inequalities arising in health and social care and to be able to ask strategic questions of ICS partners to assess progress in reducing them.
The briefing was to help Committee inform its future work programme, especially how health and care services respond to reducing inequalities in health.
Health inequalities were avoidable and unjust differences in health between groups of people. They were unjust because they don’t happen by chance. This meant we can change them. There may be specific causes, such as lack of access to services, or timely diagnosis of disease. Or wider social factors such as income, education, housing or environmental factors. BCP council had a statutory duty to assess and respond to health inequalities. So do our NHS organisations and partners in the integrated care system.
The paper gave an overview of what was known about health inequalities in BCP Council. It considered different approaches to how to reduce them. It took stock of local progress, and it highlighted areas that Committee may wish to review in the future.
The Committee discussed the report and comments were made, including:
· In response to queries regarding the report, the Director of Public Health advised the Committee to be careful not to make assumptions about associations between poor health outcomes and geographical location. In some cases geographic areas where housing was cheaper would be more likely to have people living there with conditions that would make it less likely for them to be able to work – hence the association with poorer health. In response to a query, the Director clarified that this was not in attempt to oversimplify, but was helpful when considering what contributes to areas with higher deprivation scores. · In response to a comment regarding free will and vaccinations, the Committee was advised of the importance to understand why some people chose to not take up vaccinations offered and the possible reasons for that were highlighted.
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Data working group - scoping report The Health & Adult Social Care (HASC) O&S Committee agreed to establish a data working group which would investigate the data needs of the committee and how these may be met. The working group met on 11 December to agree the detailed scope. The scope is now being reported to the HASC O&S Committee for approval. Minutes: The Democratic and Overview and Scrutiny Officer presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'D' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.
The Health & Adult Social Care (HASC) O&S Committee agreed to establish a data working group which would investigate the data needs of the committee and how these may be met. The working group met on 11 December to agree the detailed scope. The scope is now being reported to the HASC O&S Committee for approval.
Cllr Salmon apologised that he was unable to attend the first meeting of the group.
RESOLVED that: a. The lead member and officer for the group as Cllr Patrick Canavan and the Corporate Director for Wellbeing. b. Key lines of enquiry as detailed at Paragraph 11 a-h of the report. c. Timescale of meetings as set out at Paragraph 20 on the report.
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Portfolio Holder Update To receive a verbal update from the Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing. Minutes: The Portfolio Holder for Health and Wellbeing provided a verbal update as follows:
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The Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny (O&S) Committee is asked to consider and identify work priorities for publication in a Forward Plan. Additional documents:
Minutes: A copy of the Forward Plan which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'E' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.
The Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny (O&S) Committee was asked to consider and identify work priorities for publication in a Forward Plan.
The Committee considered the items currently listed for March and agreed to put the Home First integrated hospital discharge programme to the Committee in May and agreed to have an update regarding Tricuro at a later date.
There was some discussion around the Right Care, Right Person and it was felt that this could be dealt with as a briefing session outside of Committee time and could possibly be arranged to be heard at the same time as the to be rearranged briefing regarding the work of the Integrated Care Board. Democratic Services to see if this was possible. ACTION.
There was some discussion around scrutiny of the Adult Social Care budget for 24/25 and how the Committee could feed into that discussion before the Council budget setting meeting on 20 February 2024. The Clerk advised she would look at timescales and email the Committee with an appropriate mechanism for feeding any views into the budget setting. ACTION.
The Chair advised that, due to the large amount of items the Committee needed to consider, he had requested the Clerk send round some information only items via email with a request for any queries to be asked of Officers via email. It was noted that the Clerk had sent round the Dorset ICS Winter Plan and an update to Guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care regarding scrutiny of Health Services for consideration by the Committee.
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Dates of future meetings To note the last meeting of the 2023/24 Municipal year will be:
· Monday 4 March 2024 at 6pm – venue to be confirmed. Minutes: The date of the last meeting of the 23/24 Municipal year was noted. |