Issue - meetings

Report of the Executive Director of Health and Adult Social Care, providing an update on the joint meeting of Hampshire County Council and Southampton City Council Health and Overview Scrutiny Committees and  requesting that the Committee formally ratifies the recommendations as agreed at this meeting, attached.

The Committee received and noted the report of the Executive Director of Health and Adult Social Care providing an update on the joint meeting of Hampshire County Council and Southampton City Council Health and Overview Scrutiny Committees on the report from Care Quality Commission (CQC) relating to Antelope House.  (Copy of the report circulated with the agenda and appended to the signed minutes).

It was noted that this had been a useful meeting and that the following recommendations as agreed by the joint meeting of Hampshire County Council and Southampton City Council Health and Overview Scrutiny Committees be ratified:-

RESOLVED

(i)  a report on the progress of action plans under each of the following five workstreams be provided individually to the Hampshire and Southampton HOSC’s:

·  Individual care plans.

·  Assessment of service users.

·  Inappropriate detainment of informal patients

·  Recording of critical incidents and observations

·  Staff access to training.

And the first of these reports be received in January 2012;

(ii)  a report be provided to both HOSC’s on the impact of CQC reports on current plans for Adult Mental Health service re-design;

(iii)  Hampshire and Southampton HOSC’s contact the Care Quality Commission to ask to be kept informed of any inspections or reports filed on Southern Health Adult Mental Health facilities and a request that their views be taken into account when developing such reports;  and

(iv)  the Joint Panel consider any other comments or recommendations they had in relation to the recent CQC inspections.