Agenda and minutes

The apologies of Councillor Greenhalgh and Councillor Renyard were noted.

Councillor Gravatt declared that his wife was employed as a doctor at University Hospital Southampton.

Councillor Kenny declared that she was a Governor for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, a Community Champion for Mental Health and a member of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Councillor Noon declared that he worked in Adult Social Care.

The Panel noted the declarations of interest and considered that it did not present a conflict of interest with regards to the items on the agenda.

RESOLVED that Councillors Gravatt, Kenny, and Noon would be involved in the discussions on the items on the agenda.

The Chair noted that the update on the Integrated Care Board (ICB) model that was planned to be included in the agenda for this meeting, had been postponed to the next meeting, due to the announcement of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care that NHS England would be taken back into direct government control and the impact this would have on the ICB’s.

To approve and sign as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 6 February 2025 and to deal with any matters arising, attached.

The minutes of the meeting held on 6 February 2025 were signed as a correct record subject to an amendment to the Disclosure of Personal and Pecuniary Interests which recorded Councillor Kenny as being an elected Governor for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Councillor Kenny noted that noted that she had been appointed to this role not elected.

The Panel considered the report of the Scrutiny Manager which recommended that the Panel challenge and consider the appended information relating to the performance of the Community Wellbeing services, the current financial position of the service and the service transformation programme.

James House, Managing Director, Southampton Place, NHS Hampshire & Isle of Wight; Kay Reeve, Director of Adult Social Care, Southampton City Council; Rob Henderson, Executive Director for Community Wellbeing, Children and Learning, Southampton City Council and Councillor Finn, Cabinet Member for Adults and Health were in attendance and, with the consent of the Chair, addressed the meeting.

The Panel discussed a number of points including:

·  Updated performance metrics and transformation specific tracking measures would be in place for 2025-2026, which would include number of residents who start long term nursing and residential care placements, number of people engaging with Reablement Services and the number of people who complete reablement with a reduced level of need.

·  Extra Care was a popular option for people to stay in the community however it had been found that vacancies were not in areas that were local to those who needed it.

·  It would be useful to consider resident feedback on their experience as users of Community Wellbeing Services, both the complaints and the compliments.

·  The collaboration with Newton had been instrumental in helping to identify operational and performance improvement measures.

·  Significant budget savings could be made by transforming Adult Social Care Services.

·  Workshops had been held which identified issues with the discharge of patients with no medical criteria to reside in hospital and working groups led by the Council and UHS had been set up to look at the issues identified.

·  The Reablement Service had useful preventative function and Care-tech had helped to drive transformation across Reablement Services.

·  There were a range of options to choose from on the day services framework and if and individual wanted to use an alternative service this could be arranged through direct payments.

RESOLVED  that:

1)  for the 28 August 2025 meeting, a standardised dataset would be developed for the Health Overview and Scrutiny Panel that enabled the Panel to have oversight of the performance of the service, trends, and, where possible, benchmark against other local authorities. The Panel referenced the dataset presented to the Children and Families Scrutiny Panel as an example of good practice.

2)  details outlining how care-tech was helping to drive transformation across the Reablement Services would be provided to the Panel.

The Panel considered and noted the report of the Scrutiny Manager which enabled the Health Overview and Scrutiny Panel to monitor and track progress on recommendations made at previous meetings.