Issue - meetings

Sheena Cumiskey, Chief Executive of the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, will update the Committee on current issues including:

• Financial position;
• Feedback on consultations on Substantial Developments or Variations in Service (SDV) – delivering high quality services through efficient design; and redesigning adult and older people’s inpatient Mental Health services in Central and Eastern Cheshire; and
• Proposed closure of Primrose Avenue, Haslington – outcome of consultation.

Sheena Cumiskey, Chief Executive of the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, was welcomed to her first meeting of the Committee.

She explained that due to the election purdah period it would not be possible to brief the Committee on potential service changes or consultations.  

However, Ms Cumiskey was pleased to report that for the current year contracts had been resolved with the majority of commissioners and the 5% reduction across all CWP commissioned services that had been anticipated from one commissioner had not been implemented.

Actions for the forthcoming year included to further reinforce partnership working; focus on preventative work such as early intervention work with dementia sufferers that was taking place on Wirral in partnership with the Borough Council; and looking at the wider determinants of well-being again through work with partners such as Councils in areas such as housing and work with employers generally in terms of mental health awareness raising (Mindful Employer) and challenging stigma and support to staff in the work place.

RESOLVED:  That the update report be noted.