Co-opted Member Susan Crowe disclosed, in the interest of transparency, that she received funding from the Clinical Commissioning Groups and Bradford Metropolitan District Council to deliver service as part of The Big Conversation, (Minute 77).

Councillor A Ahmed disclosed, in the interest of transparency, that she was employed by the West Yorkshire Ambulance Service (Minute 78).

Recommended –

That the minutes of the meetings held on 24 January and 20 February 2019 be signed as a correct record (previously circulated).

(Jane Lythgow – 01274 432270)

Resolved –

That the minutes of the meetings held on 24 January and 20 February 2019 be signed as a correct record.

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(Jane Lythgow - 01274 432270)

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There were no referrals made to the Committee.

Previous reference: Minute 18 (2017/2018)

The Strategic Director, Health and Wellbeing will submit Document “AJ” which outlines the recent commissioned Independent Advocacy that was jointly commissioned by the Council and the Bradford Districts Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG).

The report also sets out the wider context of advocacy and what other services are available across the District and how future services might be shaped.

Recommended –

That the report be noted.

(Kerry James/Sasha Bhat – 01274 432576)

The Strategic Director, Health and Wellbeing submitted Document “AJ” which outlined the recently commissioned Independent Advocacy that was jointly commissioned by the Council and the Bradford District’s Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG).

The report also set out the wider context of advocacy and what other services were available across the District and how future services might be shaped.

The Contract and Quality Assurance Manager addressed the meeting and explained that the purpose of the re-commission of the service was to ensure people had greater choice and control over how their health and social care services were delivered through a new joint approach to funding advocacy services. 

Previously advocacy services had been provided by five Providers under 15 arrangements some of which were joint funding arrangements with the NHS and some of which were in the form of Council grants.  

Document “AJ” revealed that the new two contracts had commenced in April 2018.  Statutory and Non Statutory advocacy was provided by Voiceability. 

Self and Group Advocacy, Capacity Building and Volunteering was provided by Equality Together sub contracting to People First Keighley and Craven and Bradford People First.

A representative of Voiceability addressed the meeting to provide a flavour of the advocacy provided and how that was delivered.  He explained that the majority of the work undertaken by his organisation was statutory and had evolved from the statutes and associated regulations and codes of practice from The Care Act 2014; The Mental Capacity Act 2005, including the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (2009); the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended in 2007); The Equality Act 2010 and The Health and Social Care Act 2012.  The report set out the various advocacy service roles that were required in relation to statutory advocacy services.

Members were advised that anyone who had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act, because they had been deemed to have had their capacity taken from them, had the right to have an advocate to support them through the section process or an appeal.  The service acted as the voice of the person concerned and did not judge.  Other services were required to assess what was in the best interest of the person and the advocate would act to voice that person’s opinion. 

Examples of the work of Voiceability included situations when people lacking capacity had difficulty when assessing care needs were supported to make decisions about their care.  The service was often involved in long term decisions about accommodation or if serious medical treatment was required and a person lacked the capacity to accept or decline that treatment.  People could be supported through safeguarding processes and were generally helped when there was no one else to support them.  If it had been deemed that someone should be in residential care but they did not want to go the advocate would work to look at other options and may be able to engineer a plan to keep that person in their own home.  Personal situations where the advocate had been able to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 77.

The Digital 2020 Board was formed in 2016 by health and local authority partners across Bradford District and Craven with a vision that appropriate technology could be used across an integrated system to assist in the delivery of health and care services.

The Digital 2020 Board will submit Document “AK” which presents, in Appendix A, information on the Local Digital Roadmap: People Frist – Digital First.  The Roadmap is a 5 year plan and is governed by the Digital 2020 Board.

Recommended –

That the report be noted.

(Cindy Fedell – 01274 364844)

The Digital 2020 Board was formed in 2016 by health and local authority partners across Bradford District and Craven with a vision that appropriate technology could be used across an integrated system to assist in the delivery of health and care services.

The Digital 2020 Board submitted a report, Document “AK” which presented, in Appendix A, information on the Local Digital Roadmap: People First – Digital First.  The Roadmap is a 5 year plan and is governed by the Digital 2020 Board. 

Cindy Feddell, the Co-Chair, Digital 2020 and Chief Digital and Information Officer, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Justin Tuggey, Co-Chair, Digital 2020 and Chief Clinical Information Officer, Airedale Hospital Foundation Trust addressed the meeting.

Dr Tuggey provided examples of patient stories where people were accessing various care services at differing locations and the issues they faced with clinicians lacking all their information and patients having to repeat their medical history several times. The examples demonstrated the inefficiency and inaccuracy which could occur. 

Appended to Document “AK” was a Roadmap of an ambitious five year plan through 2020/21 that was aimed primarily at seeing the completion of the strategy to have a fully interoperable electronic health record based on two electronic records – SystmOne from TPP and Millenium from Cerner. The Roadmap was being executed through each of the local partners and was governed by the Digital 2020 (D2020) Board.  D2020 was comprised of all local partners including Bradford Metropolitan District Council.

In addition to the Roadmap all partners had plans in place to ensure that all organisations had digital patient records that were accessible anytime and anywhere. 

The Roadmap also called for progress in the following areas:-

·         Remote care to allow clinicians to care for patients from anywhere, which expedited clinical decisions and treatment.

·         Transfer of care to ensure quick and safe transfer of patient’s care between different care settings, for example, once discharged from a hospital to the care of a GP ensuring the GP had the right information in a timely way.

·         Medicines management and optimisation that intelligently helped clinicians by, for example, alerting clinicians to allergies.

·         Order and results management to expedite the diagnostic process as a critical step in diagnosing the patient and developing a treatment plan.

·         Decision support to assist clinicians, enabled by digital clinical records.

·         Asset and resource optimisation to ensure funding was used as efficiently as possible.

·         Support for the programmes of work locally and for the West Yorkshire & Harrogate Partnership (the integrated care system), the Yorkshire & Humber Shared Care Record, and the National agenda.

In addition Document “AK” provided examples of several areas where progress had moved beyond the road map and included:-

·         A transformational pathway re-design for diabetes that enabled patients to upload wellness and outcome focussed goals using mobile applications including video.

·         Advancing the application of population health analytics via Connected Bradford for example using multiple pieces of data to enable the identification of people who could be frail to support self- management  ...  view the full minutes text for item 78.