Issue - meetings

To consider and agree the minutes of the meeting of the Board held on 21 May 2013.

Matters arising

Director of Public Health Annual Public Health Report

Further to the discussion on how to engage specific groups in a more targeted way, as set out in the seventh bullet point on page 2 of the minutes of the meeting held on 21 May 2013, it was agreed that there would be discussion outside the meeting around how Healthwatch could assist with this.

With regard to the action indicated on page 3, the Director of Public Health reported that there was sufficient capacity within alcohol treatment services, for which there was currently no waiting list. It was reported that there had been investment in HAGA to maximise the accessibility of services.

 Further to the discussion around how primary care services could do more on alcohol-related harm, it was reported that analysis had been undertaken of alcohol-related hospital admissions by GP practice and that meetings would be held with each of the GP collaboratives to look at the data and identify further action. In addition, practice profiles would be issued very shortly and these would include information around alcohol. The Board asked to be kept informed of developments in this area.

Mental Health in Haringey

Further to the discussion around the definition of a ‘low’ number of beds, it was clarified that benchmarking was based on 43 Mental Health Trusts in the country, 75% of all the trusts. Variation was from 15 beds per 100,000 population to 53 beds per 100,000 population, with the median position for the country 23 beds per 100,000 population.  BEHMHT have 22.4 beds, which was the lowest number in their peer group. It was noted that the exact make-up of the peer group was not known, but was from trusts in London.

Data requested by the Board on ethnicity in relation to the Mental Health statistics had been received from the Trust, and was contained within the agenda pack under the HaringeyStat item.

RESOLVED

That the minutes of the meeting held on 21 May 2013 be approved and signed by the Chair.