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Agenda and minutes

Venue: Virtual Meeting

Contact: Neil Barnett  Scrutiny Adviser

Items
No. Item

1.

Declarations of Interest

Minutes:

None.

2.

Minutes of the previous meeting held on 7 October 2020 pdf icon PDF 118 KB

Minutes:

The minutes of the previous meeting held on 7 October 2020 were accepted as a true and accurate record.

3.

Transformation of Adult Mental Health Services pdf icon PDF 109 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Invitees

-       Ian Thomas - Aneurin Bevan Mental Health and Learning Disabilities General Manager

-       Helen Lloyd – Service Manager

-       Chris Humphrey – Director of Social Services

 

The Aneurin Bevan Mental Health and Learning Disabilities General Manager explained that we are currently embarking on an engagement exercise on transforming our adult mental health services. We've done a lot of good things in trying to develop a more cohesive adult mental health service and more of a pathway approach to it. But what we've never done is put all the bits we were doing into a more cohesive framework to see where changes fit in. When we started our journey, we developed a mission statement for the division of mental health and disabilities, and so everything we do should be trained to deliver high quality, compassionate, person centered mental health services, striving for excellent outcomes.

 

The Aneurin Bevan Mental Health and Learning Disabilities General Manager then gave an overview of the presentation to the Committee and provided further detail of each slide, which highlighted enhancing support for the wider community in the Foundation Tier, strengthening mental health support for Primary Care and developing a sustainable model for delivering Primary Care Mental Health Support Services, transforming Crisis Services and transforming services provided locally to better support individuals with complex needs, including the development of a new Specialist Inpatient Unit.

 

Members asked the following:

 

·         Members praised the detail of the presentation and looking into mental health issues at this current time. Comment was made about concerns for social work staff as after talking to most people in this line of work in the community, there are people who are anxious and worried about losing their jobs and losing family members, which unfortunately will be a concern for the upcoming years. Members then spoke of the importance of talking to people in the community who are newly experiencing mental health issues, as often an issue is making the step to make first contact, especially for people to acknowledge they have got mental health issues relating to depression and anxiety. Members then queried about the working partnerships with community groups at first contact, when people expressing mental health issues, how they link with them and also their work in post discharge support.

 

Further comment was then made about the terminology used in the report for the units, such as Special Inpatient Units and Crisis Assessment Support Units. When this report goes to clients it might not be easy to understand and could possibly put off people from wanting to engage, even though the services are very much compassionate. There could also be a little more work going into early point of engagement about how we go into the community. A Member then gave an example of a group on Facebook where men can meet up, replacing a pub setting to talk about their problems.

 

Members were advised of some of the shared projects that is being led by the community which are pulled together  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

4.

Forward Work Programme pdf icon PDF 119 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Invitee –

-       Neil Barnett – Scrutiny Adviser

 

The Scrutiny Adviser presented the Forward Work Programme, and informed the Committee of the topics due to be discussed at the next committee meeting:

 

 Wednesday 5 February 2020 at 5pm, the agenda items;

-       Education Achievement Service (EAS) Business Plan 2021-22