Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report that set out performance against Local Area Agreement (LAA) within its responsibility during the second quarter of 2009.

The Board was advised that performance against NI 112, which related to the reduction in of under 18 conception rates, was improving. The Teenage Pregnancy Executive Board had recently reviewed the data on this and there were signs that the trend was being reversed.

It was noted that an officer from NHS Haringey was currently being trained on the Council’s performance management system so that data could be entered directly. It was anticipated that this would address the problems experienced in gathering information for performance reports. With respect to smoking cessation the Board was advised that improvement had been seen and the lack of data submitted around this was likely to be a timing issue.

The Chair welcomed improved working between the Council and NHS Haringey with respect to the performance monitoring. He noted that in addition to scrutinising the action being taken to address targets showing as ‘red’ the Board should also carefully monitor the ‘green’’ targets to identify at an early stage where there may any issues.

It was noted that there was performance data missing with respect to Mental Health and the Chairman of BEH MHT agreed to take this issue back and identify the appropriate office to provide this information for the next report.

The Board was advised that the Council’s Adult Services had recently been rated as ‘performing well, with good prospects for improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission. The Chair congratulated the Council on this on behalf of the Board.

RESOLVED:

1. That the report be noted.

2. That officers from NHS Haringey and the Council should liaise to ensure that the next performance report contained the most recent data.