Issue - meetings

30 minutes

The Board to receive a presentation from Holly Matthewman, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) to:

1.  Provide an overview of the Mental Health, Learning Disability, and Autism (MHLDA) Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme.

2.  Take to be Board through the Older Adults project and share a survey link to capture views, feedback and thoughts for the project.

Slides to follow.

Representatives from AWP - Sarah Jones (Director of Nursing and SRO for the Inpatient Programme), Cintia Faria (Inpatients Programme Manager) and Holly Matthewman (Head of Inpatient Programme) gave a presentation as circulated to Board members in advance and drew attention to the following:

MHLDA Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme

1.  This was a nationally mandated 3-year programme that AWP commenced in June 2024.

2.  Overall, the programme aimed to:

a.  Bring care closer to home

b.  Eliminate out of area placements

c.  Enhance the community offer

d.  Reduce restrictive practice

e.  Provide trauma- and autism-informed care that is equality focused,

f.  Increase therapeutic interventions

g.  Improve patient outcomes and improve the experience for staff and patients.

Older Adults Project

The project aimed to transform older people’s mental health community services and the care pathway for people with dementia in BSW.

Questions for the Board:

1.  What are the opportunities and challenges in your area of work?

2.  Are there groups we should be engaging with?

The following comments were raised by the Board:

MHLDA Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme

1.  The guidance was intended to ensure same quality of service regarding the setting, so it was important to ensure those in private beds as well as AWP commissioned beds had this standard.

2.  There were challenges in acute care in terms of serious Mental Health issues – was AWP working at other facilities?  This was not included in this project but alongside this AWP were doing community transformation piece of work.

3.  It was noted that there was a new 10-bed regional resource, the Kingfisher Unit led by BSW ICB as strategic lead commissioner and AWP as the provider, which would provide short therapeutic stays for people with learning difficulties/autism experiencing a crisis.

4.  What about the transition between children to adult services?  There were transition workers within AWP.  AWP was putting together data re-transitions of children into adult mental health services and this looked positive in terms of improvement.

5.  Consideration needed to be given to young carers whose parents had mental health issues.

Older Adults Project

6.  3SG Vice-Chair was leading on an Ageing Well network and welcomed AWP to join this space.

7.  The Older Adults Project was welcomed as it was recognised that there was a gap in acute care.

8.  There was also a gap in primary care where an adult developed dementia but was not well enough to be referred to ReMind (dementia research and treatment centre).

The Board RESOLVED to feedback any further comments in relation to the Older Adults Project.