Issue - meetings

To consider the verbal update report of the Chief Executive of the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

The Committee considered the Chief Executive’s Update Report which had been tabled. The report covered the following issues:

      Transforming Community Services; in West Cheshire work is progressing with the transfer of community services, from Western Cheshire PCT to CWP. Furthermore, NHS Wirral is proposing to go ahead with its plans to establish a Community Trust, and this will function as an entirely separate organisation from 1 April 2011. Community Services in Central and Eastern Cheshire would transfer to East Cheshire Hospitals Trust on the same timescale.

      The CWP is scheduled to move the clinical services from Leighton Hospital to the Millbrook unit by 19^th January 2011. Procedures are also in place to assist carers who may have difficulty with transport to visit their relatives in Millbrook. The situation concerning patient and carer travel would continue to be monitored. Concerns were raised over the availability of public transport between Crewe and Macclesfield, which could create difficulties for members of the public. It was also proposed that Members should visit the Millbrook site.

      The CWP plans to renew its Suicide Prevention Strategy by April 2011.

      Work is underway at Bowmere to construct an outside garden for the ward, for people with dementia. This is in partnership with Kings Fund under the Enhancing the Healing Environment Scheme.

      The Committee was also advised that the progress report on the integration of the Assertive Outreach Function was due to be considered by the CWP Board at the end of January, following which it would be circulated to the Committee and considered at the next meeting.

RESOLVED: That the Report be received and a visit to the Millbrook Site be arranged.