Report of the Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being

This report provides an overview of work undertaken and progress towards the delivery of the Council’s priorities as set out in the Our Manchester Strategy for those areas within the portfolio of the Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being.

The Committee considered the report of the Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being, which provided an overview of work undertaken and progress towards the delivery of the Council’s priorities, as set out in the Our Manchester strategy, for those areas within her portfolio.

Members welcomed the report and commented that it was presented in a coherent manner and demonstrated that the Executive Member had a good command of her portfolio. The Member stated that this gave the Committee great confidence.

A Member noted that she welcomed the introduction of a city wide smoking cessation service that would go live in October of this year and would welcome further information on this service.

A Member commented that it was important that the support offered to people with Autism or other Learning Disabilities was available to those individuals who had been engaged with the judicial system to ensure that the correct levels of support were offered. The Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being acknowledgement this comment.

The Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being stated that the Autism Friendly Strategy had been launched across Greater Manchester and that it had been co designed to examine a wide variety of areas such as access to services; community support; health and care support, employment and transition. She described that the Manchester Autism Board had been developed to look at the specifics of this in a Manchester context and the work of this Board would inform future commissioning. She informed the Committee that a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment was being undertaken and the findings of this would be shared with the Committee at an appropriate time.

A Member commented that when the report on Autism and Learning Disability was scheduled for consideration by the Committee, Learning Disabled citizens, family and carers should be invited to the meeting to partake and inform the discussions. The Committee endorsed this recommendation.

In response to comments regarding Neighbourhood Teams and Neighbourhood working the Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being described that challenges had been experienced due to the different, and often changing ‘foot print’ that each partner had, and the challenge this presented to bringing services together. However, whilst this and other challenges around IT systems, data sharing and recruitment had resulted in a delay to the implementation of Neighbourhood Teams the commitment remained amongst all partners to work together to reduce health service variation and improve outcomes for the residents of Manchester, noting the positive impact that was being realised in North Manchester where this model had been introduced.

Members commented that feedback and lessons learnt from North Manchester experience should be shared across all teams to support them as they developed.    

The Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being stated that the ambition to connect services across Health and Social Care needed to be a broader, system wide approach and commented that this agenda needed to be included and considered across all directorates when panning services.

In regard to staffing within Neighbourhood Teams and the need for local knowledge the Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being said that wherever possible staff had been recruited who had an experience and/or knowledge of the local community and neighbourhood in which they would be working.

The Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being further acknowledged a comment regarding the commitment to be a Carbon Free City and the need to ensure this was a key priority, stating that there was a strand of work to address this that included sustainable travel commitments for example.

In response to comments from Members regarding the services that would be provided in respective Neighbourhood Teams, the Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being said that the Health Plans for each ward were to be shared with Members in July and this would contain a directory of services and contact details. She further described that work was ongoing to produce infographics to explain services and how they related to each other within the new teams.

The Committee further welcomed the inclusion of Social Value in the Commissioning arrangements that were described within the report.

A Member requested that an update on the Mayor of Greater Manchester commitment given in 2018 to be part of the Fast-Track Cities Network to end all new transmissions of HIV within a generation. The Executive Member for Adults, Health and Well Being stated that the Committee may wish to consider a report on this at an appropriate time and that colleagues from Greater Manchester be invited to the meeting.

Decisions                

The Committee

1. Notes the report.

2. Recommends that when the report on Autism and Learning Disability is scheduled for consideration by the Committee, Learning Disabled citizens, family and carers should be invited to the meeting to partake and inform the discussions.

3. That a report be included on the Committee’s work programme for consideration at an appropriate time that provides an update on the work to be part of the Fast-Track Cities Network to end all new transmissions of HIV within a generation.