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REDCAR AND CLEVELAND ADULT DRUGS JOINT COMMISSIONING GROUP
Minutes of meeting held Feb 11th 2009
ATTENDED
Terry Doyle Service User Co-ordinator
Peter Price Director of Public Health PCT (Chair of JCG)
Viki Whelan Joint Commissioning Manager, R & C PCT
Helen Armstrong SCP Co-ordinator (Drugs)
John Liddell NTA Deputy Regional Manager
Susan Pashley Service Development Manager, R & C PCT
John Lambert Vulnerable children's manager
Richard Parker Reducing Re-offending Manager
1. APOLOGIES:
Allia Hussain PCT Finance
Pauline Lisle Supporting People
Rob Orrell Young Persons Manager
Ken McGladrie Local Authority Commissioning (Mental Health)
John Stamp PCT Mental Health
Russell Portues Assistant Director Probation
Louise Wallace PCT
Mary Mohan Local Authority Commissioning (Mental Health)
2. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING
Agreed
MATTERS ARISING / ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN
Commissioning team structure - PP reported that the JCM post had been recruited to. Viki Whelan was successful and will officially start in post on March 2nd 09 a full review of the commissioning team will be held once Viki is officially in post.
Intensive DIP status - The LSP have agreed 50% of the funding and the partnership will now approach the JIP for the remaining 50% investment required.
DUAL DIAGNOSIS POST
No update as yet but £35k reasonable
Drug services strategic lead across the south tees area.
They would work to implement the DD strategy,
Provide awareness training for all partnership staff,
Develop and manage robust care pathways into and between services,
Carry a small caseload of the most chaotic DD clients,
Manage a DD steering group,
Ensure robust data collection and reporting within the partnership.
TD enquired re leisure and gym concessions for service users. PP informed the group that there were ongoing discussions around free swimming for under 16s and over 60s and other potential target groups could include PDUs.
JCG Attendance - it was noted that attendance to the group was dropping off. VW to investigate.
4. SERVICE USER UPDATE - TERRY DOYLE
Terry Doyle's service user and co-ordinator report was circulated with the agenda. Terry gave an update against the report highlighting the following areas/issues.
12 Service Users had enrolled on the first of 12 peer mentoring sessions.
Housing - TD had been approached by a Mr Sanjay who was keen to assist PDUs by providing housing if he can secure some funding. The group felt it would be more appropriate for Mr Sanjay to approach Supporting People in the first instance to identify any funding .
Carers - the carers have approached RCVDC to see if they could host a support worker for their group. They were turned down due to the organisation not having the resource to do this. They have since approached MVDC who are happy to offer support. A discussion took place regarding this, it was agreed that the JCG would prefer a local organisation to host the position and TD and VW would look into this and report back.
TD informed the group that the Albert Centre would be providing a volunteer counsellor service to the Helen Project.
5. CONFIDENTIAL DEATH - POSTPONED TO MARCH MEETING
6. TREATMENT PLAN UPDATE
VW reported that the majority of actions would be Green by year end. Where
Where actions remained Amber then the action would be carried forward for inclusion within the 09/10 treatment planning grids
7. NEXT YEAR BUSINESS
The group agreed that the Harm Min nurse recruitment and the Outreach worker recruitment could start against next years provision.
The Carers post was discussed in item 4.
A discussion regarding the role of the outreach worker took place and it was agreed that the role would cover the whole caseload and be attached to CRI
8. PART 3 GRIDS
A draft document was tabled and it was agreed that the group would look at these and finalise at next meeting.
9. PERFORMANCE
Performance remained on target to achieve numbers into treatment and effective treatment.
TOPs performance remains poor and further training was ongoing to improve this. Targets fro completion would be included in 09/10 SLAs
10. FINANCE
VW reported that there will be further slippage within our current year's budget due to staff vacancies and low use of Residential rehabilitation. PP remains keen for the finances to break even at the end of the year.
JL from the NTA informed the group that any pooled treatment budget under spend could be carried forward and the NTA regional Manager would support carry over via a letter to PCT's if required. LW to explore this.
A number of applications against the slippage were tabled and expenditure of the following was agreed via the group.
Furniture for Helen Project
Furniture for the Recovery Group
Furniture for the Commissioning team
IT equipment for the Commissioning Team
Team building event
An application for a second outreach post was put on hold pending agreement of funding from this years slippage.
VW tabled a budget forecast for 09/10 the costings are subject to ratification of the PCT uplift and final agreement from the JCG on the investments as follows.
11. AOB
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HEP C CARDS were distributed for comment. The cards were developed with the Service User group and are based on Seaside humour, although they were well received there was a worry that some members of the community would find some of the card slightly offensive. It was agreed that these cards would go into circulation alongside a less riskay poster and campaign aimed at the general public.
NEXT MEETING TO BE HELD AT 1pm LANGBAURGH HOUSE BOARD ROOM WEDNESDAY MARCH 11TH 09