Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Transformation and Partnerships that presented progress against the councils corporate basket of performance indicators, Council Plan and service plan actions and other performance issues for the Altogether Healthier theme for the fourth quarter of 2016/17 financial year, covering the period January to March 2017 (for copy see file of minutes).

The Head of Planning and Service Strategy highlighted some positive elements of performance including that delayed transfers of care continued to improve however with the possible introduction of further performance targets this could hit the County hard.  The number of smokers quitting had achieved target however the number using e-cigarettes had increased.  He informed the Committee that there had been a number of issues with the Drugs and Alcohol provider but a new contract had been re-commissioned and figures would be brought back in the near future.

Councillor Huntington was pleased to see the cessation of smoking figures improving but she was concerned about people not being able to be discharged from care due to equipment not being available.  She said that this part of the service needed to be well managed to ensure rehabilitation at home could continue.

Mrs Hassoon agreed with those comments and said that an assessment plan should be in place when a patient was admitted and would cause less problems when discharged.

The Head of Planning and Service Strategy said that he would feed those comments back and would suggest a report comes back to Committee about community and hospital occupational therapy and the co-ordination behind that.

Resolved:

That the report be received and an item be included in the Committee’s work programme in respect to hospital discharge planning and co-ordination with rehabilitation and reablement services.