Tameside & Glossop Primary Care Trust

Be Healthy Outcome Theme Group Meeting

16th September 2008

Present:

Pat McKelvey, Head of Children’s Strategy and Partnerships, PCT, Chair
Judith Grigg, Associate Director, PCT
Tracy Wood, Area Coordinator, TMBC
Julie Scrymgeour, Services Manager, CAMHS
Adrian Holt, Healthy School Scheme Coordinator, TMBC
Stephen McLaughlin, Children’s Services Manager, Foundation Trust Gideon Smith, Consultant in Public Health, PCT
Shelagh Walton, Advisory Teacher, Drug Education, Tameside Healthy Schools
Lilian Pons, Water Adventure Centre, VCS rep.
Anne Okwei, Children’s Centres, TMBC

1. Welcome & Introductions

Pat welcomed everyone and introductions were made around the table.

2. Apologies

Alan Bailey, Deputy Head of School Improvement, TMBC
Debbie Bishop, Service Unit Manager, Health, Neighbourhood and Community Services
Albert Massarano, Consultant Paediatrician, Foundation Trust
Bev Connolly, Service Unit Manager, Children with Disabilities
Mathew Benham, Team Leader, Branching Out

3. Minutes of the last Meeting

The minutes of the meeting held on 8 July 2008 were agreed as a true and correct record.

Matters Arising
Anne Okwei noted that at the previous meeting members had not enquired about opportunities for young people with a disability to undertake a qualification to become training coaches. Anne agreed to take this forward with Lyndsey Whiteside and report back.

4. Confirmation of Judgements from previous meeting

Tracy gave a brief synopsis of the report cards presented at the last meeting and the judgements made by the very small group of attendees. The actions and judgements agreed were confirmed as acceptable to the group. The need to follow up on the Transition report card at a future meeting was confirmed.

Shelagh Walton asked how actions and requests for further information were followed up. Tracy explained about the database and improvement action index held by the Area Coordinators and explained that other theme groups had revisited report cards and progress against actions as part of the on-going agenda but that we had not got to the second cycle of meetings yet. Some contributors have been given an indication as to when they would need to provide a further report card (e.g. LAC health assessments).

5. Theme for the meeting

Theme 1.3 Action is taken to promote children and young people’s physical health

Report Card 1 - Water, sanitation and health – presented by Gideon Smith

This card generated a significant amount of discussion. The need to consider use of local canals, in particular in Droylsden, where young people often swim, and the cleanliness of the water was raised. A number of additional sources of information were suggested to explore this area further.

Judgement – The report card be considered fascinating. The group were heartened that there is a lot going on both at a national and local level to ensure the environmental health risks to children and young people are identified and minimised. The group requested further information on:

• the strategy around children living in non-decent housing
• cleanliness of school toilets

Action: Tracy to follow up and report back.

Report Card 2 – Chemical & Physical Hazards – presented by Gideon Smith

This card considered other environmental issues affecting children and young people and highlighted national and local initiatives to promote awareness of the issues and to prevent risk.

Judgement – The report card be considered heartening in so much as there was a plethora of local activity related to prevention initiatives. However, it was noted that much of the data available was not Tameside or child/young person specific making it difficult to identify whether or not Tameside children were more at risk than children and young people nationally. It was agreed that more information was required on poisonings to enable:

• comparisons with other areas,
• clarity on age of children at admission
• comparison with CAMHS data on intentional overdose to see the correlation

Action: Tracy to follow up and agenda for next meeting

Report Card 3 A & E Attendances – presented by Tracy Wood

This card reviewed A&E attendance levels and the move to providing ‘care closer to home’ for children and young people.

Judgement – The report card be considered heartening in relation to information provided regarding the proposals in place and the group look forward to seeing a drop in A&E attendances in the future. The group requested a further report on the results of PCT public consultation on urgent and ambulatory care.

Action: Pat McKelvey to report back once consultation complete.

6. Tameside Healthy Schools Strategy and Reporting Arrangements

Adrian Holt report the restructuring of the Tameside Healthy Schools Strategy Group and a brief discussion about the reporting arrangements of the group into the Outcome Theme Group held. It was agreed that Adrian would present the criteria against which the schools self validate, details of what the staff provide and the proposed changes to this scheme at the next meeting.

Action: Adrian Holt to present at November meeting

7. Any Other Business Next Meeting

1. Lilian gave a brief overview of the activity of the Water Adventure Centre and promoted some forthcoming events.
2. Tracy reported that the initial feedback from the Tellus 3 survey is available although must be treated as confidential until formally reported by Ofsted. 
3. Tracy reported that the group had been asked to monitor actions relating to Children and Young people’s on behalf of the Strategic Alcohol Group. Tracy to meet with Shona Camacho-Duran to discuss expectations and the appropriateness of this request and feedback at the next meeting.

Action: Tracy to feedback at next meeting

The next meeting is due to be held on 25th November 2008 14:30–16:30 in the Boardroom, New Century House, Denton.