Consultation on Substantial Variations or Developments to Services - Central and Eastern Cheshire Mental Health Inpatient Reconfiguration
Meeting: 08/10/2009 - Cheshire and Wirral Councils' Joint Scrutiny Committee (Item 12)
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Minutes:
The Committee considered a report on a Substantial Development or Variation to Service relating to the reconfiguration of Adult and Older Persons Mental Health Inpatient Services in Central and Eastern Cheshire. The consultation would cover three key issues:
· The need to invest to make significant improvements in the inpatient environment to meet current standards;
· The proposal to provide all Adult and Older Persons inpatient Mental Health services from a single site;
· The introduction of new ways of working which would see further investments in community based services and as a consequence a reduced requirement for inpatient beds.
The background to the proposal included:
· A need to improve environmental standards, including single bedrooms and appropriate therapeutic and day care facilities;
· Provide a specialist inpatient unit of sufficient critical mass with highly trained and well motivated staff to ensure consistent high standards of nursing and medical care;
· Develop a plan in response to the requirement to vacate the Mental Health unit at Leighton for which the Trust had been served notice to vacate by Spring 2012.
Both the Strategic Health Authority and National Clinical Advisory Team had reviewed and supported the proposals.
The Trust and Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust were proposing to undertake a full public consultation exercise from December 2009 – March 2010. The PCT Board was to consider the consultation shortly.
RESOLVED: That the public consultation process to date be noted and endorsed, subject to the Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT Board agreeing to proceed to the next stage of public consultation, the relevant Overview and Scrutiny Committees of Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester Councils be requested to consider the proposals as a Substantial Development or Variation in Service – Level 3 to be dealt with, if possible, at a joint meeting.