Agenda item

For the panel to receive a short briefing on:

• Osborne Grove Nursing Home – recent progress and current timescales for feasibility study.
• The Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) approach

Charlotte Pomery, Assistant Director for Commissioning, gave a short update on Osborne Grove Nursing Home feasibility study. The Frederick Gibberd Partnership had been appointed as the design team, they’ve come to the Osborne Grove co-design steering group chaired by Cllr James and the Community Options group chaired by Gordon Peters and a wider stakeholder event is being planned. A number of other studies are taking place alongside this including on sustainability and carbon management and ideas on what is possible in terms of the architecture based on the surrounding environment.  In response to questions from the Panel, Charlotte Pomery said:

·         That on the background of the Frederick Gibberd Partnership, they had recently redesigned an inpatient mental health unit in Harlow which had been redeveloped with the inpatients on-site which is clearly very pertinent to the work that the Council aims to do with Osborne Grove.

·         That the membership of co-design group includes a Ward Member, the Cabinet Member for Adults & Health, the Cabinet Member for Finance, the CCG, family stakeholder members of those at Osborne Grove, members of the Planning and Oversight group with a direct interest in older people, Healthwatch, Unison and officers.

·         That the relevant stakeholders that the Frederick Gibberd Partnership had been engaging with include the members of the co-design steering group, the community links steering group, the Older People’s reference group and other previously mentioned stakeholder such as Healthwatch and Unison.

·         That Haringey Council’s ‘Caldicott Guardian’ for Osborne Grove is Beverley Tarka.

·         That the guiding design principles of the approach to the redesign include the primacy of nursing care, that it will be a community-facing asset and good quality care.

·         That the preferred option is to develop a long-term plan rather than an intermediate plan as it is possible that an intermediate plan could slow down the long-term plan which is undesirable given the pressures on capacity.

·         That according to the data there would be a need for a multi-use facility to support older people with frailty, dementia, complex needs, learning disability/autism and rehabilitation.

·         That a set of options would be brought forward but the final decision is for Cabinet.

Charlotte Pomery, Assistant Director for Commissioning, provided a short update on the Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) approach which aims to develop joint working for people with complex needs around homelessness, mental health, drug and alcohol dependency and criminal justice. This requires a more flexible way of working, such as ensuring that people without an appointment are not turned away and that people just below the eligibility threshold are supported. The work was partly prompted by a spike in deaths of people in supported housing and it was recognised that there was a gap in support available. This work has a high level of support from the Health and Wellbeing Board and a broad range of stakeholders is involved through a strategic steering group.

Work was ongoing to engage people with lived experience to help shape the approach.

The Panel requested that the draft terms of reference, the draft information sharing protocol and the membership of the steering group be provided. (ACTION)

In terms of timescale it was suggested that the Panel could look at this in more detail towards the end of the year.