Issue - meetings

The Panel considered the report of Chief Executive – Solent NHS Trust providing a summary of the key findings from the inspection and outlines the approach the Trust will follow to address the issues raised in the Care Quality Commission reports.

Mandy Rayani (Chief Nurse) and Alex Whitfield (Chief Operating Officer) were in attendance and, with the consent of the Chair, addressed the meeting.

The Panel discussed a number of matters and concerns including:

·  that the Trust had been rated as requiring improvement by the Care Quality Commission (CQC);

o  it was noted that the CQC report had indicated that there were areas of the Trust, including some of the services in Southampton, that had been rated as outstanding. That the result was an overall judgement of the Trust. It was also noted that action had commenced to address the concerns raised by the CQC following the inspection.

·  why some services in the Portsmouth area had outperformed the same services in the Southampton area;

o  It was noted that the management of the children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) had been structured in different ways and that this led to information being recorded differently.  It was explained that steps had been implemented to resolve this including the redesign of various templates to more clearly indicate that the required information had been considered and recorded.  In addition it was noted that the Trust had also reviewed its staff structure within this area in order to ensure consistency of care.

·  concern was raised that the Trust was not learning from serious incidents;

o  assurance was given by the Trust that the CQC had found no issues in the Trust’s ability to learn from serious incident or its leadership.   

RESOLVED that the Panel noted the report and would continue to monitor the performance of the Trust and that the item would return at a future meeting.