Agenda item

4.1

Three public questions were submitted by Dr Anne Hollows as follows:-

(1)       What is the current availability of acute mental health beds and how many patients subject to compulsory admission have had to go out of the area last year, and where had they gone to?  In particular regarding patients aged 15 to 25.

(2)       Cuts in alcohol treatment services in the community mean that more patients are being admitted to acute wards with liver failure.  Could the NHS be more effective with greater community support and what steps are being taken to ensure this?

(3)       How many acute admissions of elderly people have resulted from underfunding of effective Adult Social Care and what cost savings could be achieved by acute hospital services if Social Care was effectively funded?

4.2

The Chair, Councillor Pat Midgley, indicated that Dr Hollows would be provided with a written response to these questions and Dr Mike Hunter (Medical Director, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust) added that no young adults had been placed outside the area in the last three years and that Sheffield was leading the way in this regard.