Issue - meetings

Anne Bristow (Corporate Director, Adult and Community Services) presented the report to the Board.

The Board noted that the borough needs to improve its end of life care (EoLC) arrangements. Developing a strategy for EoLC will be an important step for improving as will pursuing ‘gold standard’ accreditation. It was noted that the St Francis Hospice is an outstanding provider of EoLC giving the borough a good platform from which to develop the EoLC offer.

Cllr Alexander expressed her concern that people in receipt of the substance mis-use social work support would lose this support when the service is withdrawn as the funding only lasts one year. Bruce Morris (Divisional Director, Adult Social Care) advised the Board that the service will be evaluated towards the end of its funding spell. It is possible to fund the service beyond 2013/14 if outcomes for users of the service are good.

The Health and Wellbeing Board agreed the expenditure of £650,000 for the proposals as set out in sections 2.2 and 2.3 of the report to improve re-ablement services and outcomes for residents.