Issue - items at meetings - Mental Health Acute Beds

44.1         Anne Foster and Dr Becky Jarvis from the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) presented the report on Mental Health acute beds. To give some additional background, Brighton and Hove’s spend on Mental Health services is similar to other cities with a similar size need, but this does not necessarily mean that money is being spent in the right place. There is a move toward more preventative, community based service provision, as can be seen in the report.

44.2         Questions and comments included:

Ø      How many people were being sent outside the city?

93% of service users were able to access a bed in the city; there are on average two admissions a day to Millview. However, some types of inpatient care are not available in the city- eg for female psychiatric intensive care  – so the figures have been adjusted accordingly.

Ø      It would be useful to see the readmission rates for service users in the city to see whether this provides any information.

Re-admission rates are one of the key metrics monitored by the clinical review group. A re-admission audit has been undertaken to find out more about re-admission rates.  However the numbers are small so it was not possible to draw any firm conclusions from the audit. Further scoping work is being undertaken to assess the merits of further more detailed audit work.

Ø      When will the new care coordinators be in place?

The posts are out to recruitment now.

44.3    The Chair concluded that it was good to see extra investment going into mental health services. The HWOSC would look forward to seeing the changes going forward.