NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

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Present:
WEST GLASGOW COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE PARTNERSHIP
PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP FORUM EXECUTIVE GROUP
Minutes of meeting held on 6 November 2008
Ray de Souza, West Glasgow CHCP (Chair for part of
meeting)
Community sector
Carolan Connolly, Taking Part in the West
Kathleen Clark, Partick Seniors Forum
Evaline Kennedy, Get Up and Go Lunch Club
Kate Walker, Greater Knightswood Elderly Forum
Evelyn MacIver, West Action Respite Group
Abdul Ben Jeloon, Maryhill Framework for Dialogue
Thelma Sneddon, Local Service User Network
Walter McLaren, Mental Health Sub Group
Helen Richardson, Dumbarton Road Corridor
Voluntary sector
Chris Stomboli, COPE (late)
Annie Mead, CCDP & CHLC
Alan McDonald, 3 Eyes Project/Glasgow Disability
Alliance (Chair part of meeting)
Mohammad Jamil, ASRA
Individual
Nicky Neilson, Individual
Jean Findlater, Gatehouse Project
In attendance: May Simpson, West Glasgow CHCP
Maysa Yousif, Arabic Interpreter (GTIS)
David McRae, West Glasgow CHCP
Eileen Niblo, West Glasgow CHCP
Annemarie Gorman, West Glasgow CHCP
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Chris Crockett, Adberrahim Jebbari, Frances Farrell, Savana Navasanian, Joe Gigli
1. Welcome and Introductions
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Ray (Chair) welcomed everyone to the group and introductions took place. The
order of Agenda was changed. Item 2a (Appointments to Chair and Vice Chair of
Executive Group) was swapped with item 1 (Minutes of Last Meeting).
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Matters Arising
a Appointments of Chair and Vice Chair of Executive Group
Ray described the roles of chair and vice chair to the group and elections took
place. Alan McDonald was elected unopposed as the Chair and Annie Mead was
elected unopposed as the Vice Chair. Alan took over as chairperson and
returned to Item 1
Minutes of the last meeting held on 15 September 2008 – agreed for
accuracy
Ray advised that CHCP plan has been published and will be available on the
website.
c. Publicity
The draft booklet narrative has to be altered as Ray advised there were
inaccuracies plus the design had to meet Health Board standards. The draft
booklet and poster was circulated and Nicky advised that the design had been
tested for accessibility. Kathleen asked that the ‘orange print’ panel be changed
but overall members were happy with design. Abdul Ben Jellioun asked if the
booklet would be available in different languages. CHCP would look at the
costings for alternative formats and languages.
d. Continence Pads Delivery Update
Ray informed the meeting that he, Michelle Sutherland and Shona MacInnes
would undertake a review of this service which would identify if the service
specification had to be modified or changed. This group would report to the PPF
in January 2009. Ray agreed that service users would be involved in developing
criteria for delivery service.
Alan returned to Item 2b
b Appointment of substitute Voluntary Sector Representative
Chris Stomboli was nominated and elected unopposed.
3. Mental Health Services: progress and developments
David McCrae spoke about Mental Health Service in West Glasgow. He
highlighted 5 services.
• The Primary Care Mental Health Team consists of 6 people based at
Yarrow View and deals with common mental health issues – anxiety, low
mood, difficult life experiences etc. The team has reduced the waiting time
for a service from 22 weeks to 4 week in the last six months. The team will
now focus on the outcomes of the service and who is accessing it in order
to target groups who are not a present using the service such as people
minority ethnic groups.
• The Psychotherapy Services is based at Lansdowne Clinic and deals with
more long term mental health issues.
• Community Mental Health Team consists of 2 teams (Riverside and
Arndale Centre) and provide a service for approximately 2,000 service
users who have complex and severe mental health problems.
• The Crisis Team provide intensive home treatment. They support patients
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that are being discharged from hospital reducing time spent in a hospital
setting, prevent admission where possible and equally important ensure
that patients who require immediate treatment are admitted to hospital
without lengthy assessments and bureaucracy.
• Inpatient Service at Gartnavel Royal Hospital was also described. David
mentioned that new hospital was opened in November’07 with 120 beds –
all single with ensuite facilities, the range of communal area, visitor areas
etc and the move from a ‘observation’ model to a ‘intervention’ model.
David finished off by describing the Esteem Services – an early intervention
team who provide services to 16 – 35 year old who experience psychosis for the
first time and the Eating Disorder Team which provides a specialist city wide
service. Eileen spoke about the Adult Support Action plan which is the
development of information – web sites, web links, handy cards, etc that
individuals, agencies, families voluntary and communities can access.
In response to Evelyn’s question David described the out of hours services and
that agencies such as the police, NHS 24 and GEMS should all be aware who
and how to contact and access services. Evelyn felt the out of hours service
was not well publicised in the community and that carers found it difficult to
access services out of hours. David advised Abdul that the Children and
Adolescence provide services to children and young people.
Following a discussion on the low up take of service users drawing up a personal
statement or an advanced statement Eileen agreed it might be useful to revisit
this area. Thelma raised concerns about the growing number of people under
65 years affected by dementia and the lack of appropriate services and financial
difficulties they face. David advised Thelma that the adult mental health team
had responsibility carrying out assessments for people with early onset dementia
but the care services were provided by Health and Community Care.
4. Youth Work Follow Up
May expanded on the report and welcomed comment from members. After
discussion the group agreed that it is essential to concentrate more on needs of
and to engage with children and young people with disabilities and their families.
Evelyn mentioned event that was being organised for children and young people
affected by disability. May to follow up to see if it would useful way for PPF to
engage with young people affected by disability.
5. Feedback Reports from representatives
a) Voluntary Sector Network
This item was deferred as Frances was not able to attend the meeting.
b) Renal Services
Alan advised meeting that after a number of meetings with Mark MacAlister
(Engagement Team) regular renal service users were now going to be
interviewed and involved in proposed changes to the present dialysis facility.
c). CHCP Committee: 21 st of October 2008
Thelma highlighted from the report that Pam Fenton (Head of Health and
Community Care was going back to the City Council to ask that the
recommendations of the Elderly Day Service Best Value Review be implement in
full. Evelyn advised 2 service users, supported by People First and 2 carers
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(nominated from Planit) are on the working group for the Learning Disability
Reform. Ray briefly outlined the Employability framework that is being developed
in CHCP and the impact of changes to Incapacity Benefit.
d) Opportunities for General Practice Consultation
The main issues raised at this event were ‘access to’ and ‘communication’ with
regards to GP’s. Ray informed the group that new GP Forum was being
developed and would like a fuller discussion at the next meeting.
6. Transport update
Ray talked about CHCP Transport Action Plan which is currently in progress and
highlighted the joint Volunteer Driver Policy. Ray circulated Annual Report for
Ambulance Services. May agreed to get copy for Alan. Alan highlighted the
campaign by RNIB to get the higher rate Mobility Allowance for visually impaired
people.
7. AOCB
a) Disabled Parking Post Cards (Jackie Baillie). May agreed to source the
post card for distribution.
b) Glasgow City Vulnerable Adult Protection Committee was looking for a
carer and a service user from the PPF’s to join this committee. Joe Gigli had put
his name forward to find out more about the remit and commitment of
volunteering for this group and what support would be available.
c) Tobacco Control Strategic Group is also looking for volunteers from PPF to
attend this group and the 3 sub group. May asked members to raise this with
their members.
d) Proposed dates for PPF Meetings 2009 was circulated. Evelyn asked if
carers support would be provided for meeting held outwith day centre hours.
Ray agreed to consider all support requirements.
8. Date of Next Meeting
11 th of December’08 at 11.00 -1.30pm in Drumchapel Community Centre
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