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Formal Public Involvement

This is the part of the meeting when members of the public can formally ask questions of the Board or present a petition.  These need to be notified to the Board in advance of the meeting Contact the Secretary to the Board at penny.jennings@brighton-hove.gov.uk

 

(a) Petitions – to consider any petitions by noon on 3 June 2020;

 

(b) Written Questions – to consider any written question received by noon on 3 June 2020;

 

(c) Deputations – to consider any Deputations received.

Minutes:

4a       Petitions

 

4.1      There were none.

 

4b      Written Questions

 

4.2      It was noted that two written questions had been received. The questions submitted and the responses provided by the Chair are set out below:

 

          Use of an Asset Based Approach – Mr Kapp

 

4.3      Mr Kapp was invited to put his question which is set out below:

 

          “I welcome the Social Care director, Rob Persey’s inverted pyramid of the operating model Self Help Early Intervention shown on page 107 of the Health and Social Care Strategy (HACS) in item 66 of the last meetings (24.3.20) agenda because it shifts the focus of support to the asset-based approach, as described in the Better Lives Stronger Communities Operating Model (BLSC).

 

        This asset-based approach focuses on what people can do, not what they can’t do, and builds on their strengths, and community assets, by working with their support networks, the community and voluntary sector, and social enterprises.

 

        Does the Board agree that this asset-based approach should be extended to and incorporated in the CCG’s commissioning strategy and social prescribing for which the health budget is more than three times that of social care, at about £470mpa, together totalling £600mpa, which would integrate health and social care by ensuring that both adopt the same asset-based approach?”.

 

4.4      The Chair responded in the following terms:

 

“I do agree that asset-based approaches have the potential to be used across the health and care system. The Council and the CCG are already working closely with the community and voluntary sector to ensure that community and primary care services involve residents in their designs and are focused on what individuals actually need and want to be able to do and fully utilised community assets. We fully intend to make this work central to the development of these services.”

 

4.5      Mr Kapp was invited to put a supplementary question:

 

4.6      The Chair responded in the following terms:

 

 

 

 

          Substance Misuse Contract – Mr Kirk

 

4.7      Mr Kirk was invited to put his question which is set out below:

 

“Patients with drug and alcohol problems often present to A&E in crisis or with related conditions and providing support for them is a highly skilled job. Yet the new contractors CGL have disastrously cut nurse posts. Of the current fifteen nurses and four nurse prescribers, seven nurse posts will be cut, the number of recovery worker posts is uncertain.

 

Did the HWB Board approve the Council’s decision to transfer the Drug and Alcohol Service to CGL; shouldn’t the council attach conditions to contracts to stop the emasculation of service, or is the contract price the only issue?”

 

4.8      The Chair responded in the following terms:

 

        “The Health and Wellbeing Board on 29 January 2019 granted delegated authority to the Executive Director of Health and Adult Social Care (HASC) to undertake the procurement and award of a contract for substance misuse services with a term of five years.

 

        Following a robust and transparent procurement process in which bids were evaluated on quality 70% and price 30%, Change, Grow, Live (CGL) was awarded a contract to provide a drug and alcohol treatment and recovery service for Brighton and Hove. The service model is based on services successfully delivered by CGL in other local authorities in Sussex and across the country. The precise staffing establishment is still being finalized and will include specialist doctors, nurses and non-medical prescribers and psychological practitioners as well as recovery/care co-ordinators and outreach workers. In order to maintain as much stability as possible during the current situation with Covid 19, no staff redundancies will take place until at least October 20020.”

 

4.9   Mr Kirk was invited to put a supplementary question:

 

 

 

4.10  The Chair responded in the following terms:

 

 

4.11  RESOLVED – That the questions submitted and the Chair’s responses to them be noted and received.

 

4c    Deputations

 

4.12  There were none.

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