Issue - meetings

The Panel considered the report of the Scrutiny Manager which recommended that the Panel utilised the attached appendices, and the discussion with invited attendees, to determine whether the proposals to redesign inpatient Older Persons Mental Health (OMPH) services represented a significant development or substantial variation in NHS services and, if so, whether the proposals required further scrutiny.

Councillor Barbour; Jo Hannigan; Ron Shields, Chief Executive, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust; Jenny Erwin, Director of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Transformation and Delivery for Hampshire & Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board; and Councillor Fielker, Cabinet Member for Health, Adults and Leisure were in attendance and, with the consent of the Chair, addressed the meeting.

RESOLVED that the proposals represented a substantial variation in NHS services and that the proposals required further scrutiny, therefore:

1)  The list of organisations that had been contacted by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust about the OPMH proposals would be circulated to the Panel.

2)  The issue would return to the 19 October HOSP agenda for consideration by the Panel.  Southern Health were requested to undertake additional engagement with stakeholders on the proposals relating to Beaulieu Ward at Western Community Hospital, details on engagement to be agreed by the Scrutiny Manager and the Associate Director of Communications.  The report to the 19 October meeting should detail the outcomes of the engagement activity and clarify the actions to be taken to mitigate the impact of the proposals.