Agenda item

The Sheffield Mental Health Transformation Programme

Report of the Director of Commissioning, Inclusion and Learning

Minutes:

7.1

The Committee received a report of the Director, Commissioning, Inclusion and Learning, which was presented to the Committee in order to seek views, comments and/or recommendations for future delivery of the Joint Transformation Programme on Mental Health in Sheffield.  The Programme had been designed, developed and implemented jointly by the Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group. 

 

 

7.2

In attendance for this item were Dawn Walton (Director, Commissioning, Inclusion and Learning), Jim Millns (Deputy Director of Mental Health Transformation and Integration) and Dr Steve Thomas (Clinical Lead).

 

 

7.3

The Chair, Councillor Pat Midgley, indicated that Members felt that there was insufficient information in the report and asked the attendees to reconsider the content, with a view to submitting a more detailed report to a future meeting of the Committee.  She added that Members would comment on the report and it was hoped that these comments would be helpful in such reconsideration. 

 

 

7.4

Jim Millns informed the Committee that, in 2016/17, Sheffield City Council and the Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) had created a pooled budget for social care and that, for 2017/18, there was a £4 million cost pressure on this with the obvious impact on care purchasing.  The Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) had asked for help as it had its own cost pressures and so a transformation programme had been co-designed to tackle inefficiency.  Workshops held earlier in the year had resulted in a Sheffield Transformation Programme and this had been initiated in April 2017.  The Programme consisted of five large-scale transformational schemes which focused on:-

 

 

 

(a)       Residential Care;

 

(b)       Dementia Care;

 

(c)        Liaison Mental Health;

 

(d)       Primary Care Mental Health

 

(e)       Integrated Psychological Therapies.

 

 

 

These were designed to tackle issues which were problematic in Sheffield.

 

 

7.5

Dawn Walton indicated that the focus would be on the themed areas with a view to stimulating change.  She highlighted two areas of significance, these being engaging/reviewing Special Education Needs and children with mental health problems, with these subjects being part of her responsibilities.  She also offered to meet with the Chair to have themed discussions. 

 

 

7.6

In relation to dementia, Dr Steve Thomas informed the Committee that prevention, living well, assessment and community support and end of life were being looked at as one programme of work.

 

 

7.7

Members indicated that they wanted to know what had happened, what will happen and when and who was going to make things happen, and needed more detail from the user perspective, as well as needing to be convinced that this reflected a clinical issue and not just a money saving exercise.  A request was also made for Members to see a full breakdown of the £4 million cost pressure.

 

 

7.8

Jim Millns indicated that savings assumptions would be included and that the quality of service would be unaffected.  Dr Steve Thomas added that no one had been sent out of the City for acute mental health issues and this had not been the case for dementia sufferers. 

 

 

7.9

The Chair commented that Members were greatly concerned about mental health and wished to support the Programme and hoped that the comments made would be helpful.

 

 

7.10

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

 

 

 

(a)       thanks those attending for their contribution to the meeting;

 

 

 

(b)       notes the contents of the report, and Member and officer comments; and

 

 

 

(c)        requests that:-

 

 

 

(i)        Members send any specific questions on the Sheffield Mental Health Transformation Programme to the Policy and Improvement Officer for forwarding to the attending officers; and

 

 

 

(ii)       a more detailed written report be presented to a future meeting of the Committee.

 

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