Issue - items at meetings - FOR INFORMATION: Mental Health Commissioning Changes and 'Better By Design'

Report of the Director of Strategy and Governance on Mental Health Reconfiguration Plans: Co-ordination of Sussex Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee (HOSC) responses (copy attached)

76.1    The committee discussed the recommendation that they should appoint members to informally represent the HOSC when discussing this issue with colleagues in Ease and West Sussex HOSCs. However, members felt that this was not a necessary step at this juncture, and that they would be happy for scrutiny officers to represent their views.

76.2    Richard Ford, Executive Commercial Director, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, told members that his trust was happy to liaise with the HOSC on either a formal or an informal basis throughout the reconfiguration process. Amanda Fadero, Chief Executive, NHS Brighton & Hove, also told members that the PCT was committed to working closely with the HOSC on this issue.

76.3    RESOLVED – That scrutiny officers, liaising as necessary with the HOSC Chairman, should represent the HOSC in informal discussion with members and officers of East and West Sussex HOSC with regard to the ‘Better By Design’ mental health reconfiguration plans.