Cumbria's Health and Well-being Scrutiny Committee is to present its interim findings into how older people with complex needs are being dealt with in the county.
Service users, carers and front-line staff who took part in the Scrutiny Committee's seven months of evidence gathering are being invited to a special meeting in Whitehaven on Wednesday (28 February) where they will be asked to comment on the committee's draft recomendations.
The event will be chaired by Copeland District Councillor Anne Bradshaw, who is also a member of the Health and Well-being Scrutiny Committee.
Last year, the committee was successful in securing £10,000 from the Centre for Public Scrutiny to support the review which began in July.
Since then, the scrutiny has been looking at range of different issues concerning the care of older people with complex needs and its interim findings are expected to include a number of draft recommendations including:
- The development of a plan to reduce the number of older people requiring hospital admission;
- More promotion of Direct Payments which service users can use to purchase support directly from providers;
- Closer working between Adult Social Care and the NHS, which the committee believes will benefit from the recent creation of Cumbria's new Health and Well-being Board.
The Scrutiny of Joint Care Management of Older People with Complex Needs event will take place at Whitehaven Civic Hall. The programme is as follows:
11.00 Welcome - Councillor Anne Bradshaw, Chair of the steering group for the scrutiny
11.05 Introduction to the day Eileen Waddington
11.10 Emerging findings from the scrutiny Councillor Anne Bradshaw
11.30 Small table discussions
- What is your response to the emerging findings?
- Do you feel there are any major gaps?
12.00 Feedback
12.15 Lunch
13.00 Small table discussions
- Ranking the findings and recommendations in terms of their overall importance in improving outcomes for older people, and secondly
- Ranking them in terms of ease of accomplishment i.e. where there are some early achievements and which are more complex and likely to take longer to make progress.
13.45 Feedback Eileen Waddington
14.15 Next steps Councillor Anne Bradshaw and Eileen Waddington
14.30 Finish
ENDS
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