Agenda item

Functional Older Adults Inpatient Service

Report of the City and Hackney CCG.

Minutes:

The Chairman welcomed David Maher from City & Hackney CCG, Michael McGhee from the East London NHS Foundation Trust, and Dr Waleed Fawzi a Consultant for Old Age Psychiatry to the meeting.

Mr Maher reported that a briefing had been held for Sub Committee Members in September 2014 to discuss the consultation regarding the proposed changes to the Functional Older Adult Inpatient Services in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, with the preference to merge two inpatient wards onto one site at Mile End Hospital. Mr Maher advised that the consultation started on 16 December 2014 and ran until 27 March 2015, and the results were before Members.

The Sub Committee discussed the views raised, highlighting issues regarding transport and carer duties, and the interim concerns of Hackney and Tower Hamlets Healthwatches regarding the clinical environment of the Mile End site. Members raised their concern over the lack of organised activities on wards at Mile End Hospital, and Mr McGhee confirmed that there was a full programme of events for each site and undertook to circulate this to Members. Mr Maher advised that the lack of stimulation was an issue highlighted during the consultation, and City and Hackney CCG and ELFT would work together to address this.

Members noted that City and Hackney CCG had agreed to report back to the Health in Hackney Scrutiny Commission at the end of Phase One in January 2016 and seek approval for Phase Two. The Sub Committee supported this proposal. Officers undertook to liaise with the London Borough of Hackney to facilitate a joint discussion at that meeting, and Members requested a site visit be arranged.

RESOLVED – That:

(a) The programme of events available at Mile End Hospital be circulated to Members;

(b) Officers liaise with the London Borough of Hackney to facilitate a joint discussion at the Health in Hackney Scrutiny Commission meeting in January 2016; and

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