Agenda item

(a)  Update on Regional Partnership Board  TBC

(b)  Update presentation on Local Implementation Team (LIT) (Tesni Hadwin)

(c)  Consider proposals for transformational funding 2020/21 (Bethan Jones, BCUHB) (copy attached)

3.30 p.m. – 4.10 p.m.

 

(a)  Update on Regional Partnership Board - representatives were unable to attend.  This item will be deferred to a future meeting.

 

(b)  Tesni Hadwin, Service Manager for Vulnerable People presented an update on the Local Implementation Team (LIT). 

 

The LIT was launched in 2017.  The purpose of the LIT is to provide a multi-disciplinary, bottom-up, place based approach to understanding mental health and well-being needs, agree the model of care required locally and ultimately produced options for a multi-disciplinary model that improves people’s recovery outcomes.  The LIT reports to the Together for Mental Health Partnership Board, which in turn feeds into the Regional Partnership Board. 

 

In November 2019, the Together for Mental Health strand was awarded £2,320,000 for North Wales from the Transformational Funding.  The fund was intended to meet the time-limited additional costs of introducing new models of health and social care. 

 

The work of the LIT is linked to the ICAN integrated pathway, progressing from low level interventions to high level support -

·         ICAN Community Hub

·         ICAN Primary Care

·         ICAN Unscheduled Care, and

·         ICAN + step up/step down

 

The ICAN campaign aims to -

·         Give a voice to people with lived experience

·         Shift focus of care to prevention and early intervention

·         Empower people to maintain their mental health and well-being, and

·         Encourage open and informed conversations about mental health.

 

To achieve the aims, the LIT has developed -

·         A new ICan mental health support pathway

·         ICan work employment programme

·         ICan mental health training

·         ICan volunteer opportunities

 

Members were informed that several ICan community hubs have been established across Conwy and Denbighshire, some of which are launching in January 2020. The services and provision ranges from hub to hub.  This is part of the LITs work to undertake a whole system change and reinvesting resources to a preventative model, so that people are supported by a range of community based options.  

 

Members were informed that there are plans to bid for more hubs, primarily in Llandudno and Rhyl.  However need to ensure there is equal provision across the regions, such as rural areas. The LIT is also looking into developing a community collaborative model.

 

The Board thanked Tesni for her update.

 

(c)  Bethan Jones, BCUHB, provided a summary report of the proposals for transformational funding 2020/21.

 

The Welsh Government have made a transformational grant available, and rather than allocate the funds, bids had to be submitted for the monies.  The programme has established four projects,

·         Community Service Transformation – focusing on developing combined health and social care localities (based on the geography of primary care clusters) and developing links with Community Resource Teams.  There are four clusters across Conwy and Denbighshire.

·         Integrated early intervention and intensive support for children and young people - focusing on children and young people as part of the regional vision for seamless locality based services.

·         Together for Mental Health in North Wales – focusing on providing a seamless integrated urgent care service for individuals who experience mental health crisis or require immediate support.  There are similar projects operating in both Gwynedd and Anglesey and Flintshire and Wrexham.

·         North Wales Together: Seamless services for people with learning disabilities – this is a regional project focusing on developing a model of learning disability services based on ‘what matters’ to the individual and building on family support, informal networks and community resource team models

 

The difference with the transformational funding was that the bids could only be submitted once the project monies had been spent.  A more detailed update would be available for the Board in April/May 2020. 

 

RESOLVED that

1. the Health and Well-being updates are noted.
2. an update on the Regional Partnership Board be provided at a future meeting.
3. an update on the Transformational Funding for 2020/21 be provided at a future meeting.