Agenda item

Verbal update of the Director of Community & Children’s Services.

The Sub Committee received a letter from the Health in Hackney Scrutiny Committee Chair in her role as Chair  of the Inner North East London Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (INEL JHOSC) to Barts Health NHS Trust regarding the Quality Accounts. Members commended the specific mention of ‘failing administrative and support systems’, and ‘managing and learning from complaints’ that had been raised by City representatives on INEL JHOSC.

The Assistant Director, Commissioning and Partnerships gave a verbal update regarding the INEL JHOSC meeting held on 27 May 2015. Barts Health NHS Trust and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) had been in attendance, and the Committee had queried them both on the recent inspection results. Key points raised at the meeting were:

·         CQC advised re-inspections would be carried out within 12 months;

·         Barts were moving away from Clinical Advisory Groups (CAGs) to a more site-based  management system;

·         The impact on the finances of the Trust from the changes proposed by Barts Health to remedy the shortfalls identified by CQC was unclear; and

·         Barts Health Trust had agreed to report back to the INEL JHOSC later in the year.

The INEL JHOSC had also agreed to write to Tower Hamlets and Newham Care Commissioning Groups (CCGs) expressing the Committee’s concern at their responses thus far to the CQC inspection reports.

RESOLVED – That the update be noted.