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There had been circulated a
report by the Chief Officer, providing an update of the ongoing
work of the Health and Social Care Partnership, including an update
on (1) the Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership’s
Workforce Input to NHS Grampian’s Delivery Plan for 2024/25;
(2) the General Practice Vision Programme; (3) Health Visiting and
Family Nurse Services – UNICEF Baby Friendly Health Visiting
Standards; (4) Dalvenie Gardens Very
Sheltered Housing; (5) a Joint Inspection of Adult Support and
Protection in the Aberdeenshire Partnership Area; and (6) a
Scottish Government Consultation on The Learning Disabilities,
Autism and Neurodivergence Bill consultation.
 
By way of update, the Chief
Officer advised of a range of updates on the Workplace Plan which
had to be submitted to NHS Grampian to feed into the NHS Grampian
Delivery Plan for 2024/25, and an update on the Workplace Plan
would to be reported to the next meeting of the IJB;  provided an update on the General Practice Vision
Programme which had considered how to make general practice across
Aberdeenshire sustainable going forward and looking at progress
made at implementing the Primary Care Improvement Plan; that
following a visit from the UNICEF baby-friendly initiative NHS
Grampian Health Visiting and Family Nurse Services had fulfilled
the requirements and achieved a GOLD award; an inspection of
Dalvenie Gardens Very Sheltered Housing
as part of a pilot inspection from the Care Inspectorate for
low-risk services had retained a grade of 5 (very good) standard,
with a number of areas of work being commended; an ongoing update
of the activity to date on the Joint Inspection of Adult Support
and Protection in the Aberdeenshire Partnership Area, with Senior
Leaders having attended a Professional Discussion Meeting and a
staff survey was ongoing; noted that work was ongoing to attempt to
minimise delayed discharges during winter and managing winter
pressures had continued to incorporate close oversight and scrutiny
of delayed discharges as a key performance metric and senior
managers were meeting weekly to provide oversight and scrutiny of
delayed discharges, supported by Location and Service Managers in
each area; and initiatives in support to support staff health and
wellbeing with access to resources being promoted to employees to
ensure that wellbeing is an integral part to staff communications
and programmes; and finally she highlighted a consultation on the
Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill which aims
to bring a focus to help Scotland move towards a society where
neurotypical and neurodivergent people, and people with learning
disabilities having their needs met and their choices respected.
She advised that members would be invited to share their views and
a response on behalf of the Health and Social Care Partnership
would be collated and shared with the Chair and Vice Chair for
agreement prior to submission.
 
During discussion, Members
commented on the issue of delayed discharge relating to waiting
times for medications from the hospital pharmacy. It was noted that
there were two budgets – the NHS budget and the Health and
Social Care budget, which prevented patients awaiting discharge
from being able to have their prescription filled at their local
pharmacy, and creating lengthy delays in their final discharge. It
was suggested that both organisations should be challenged to find
a solution to address this issue and that the Chief Officer should
raise the matter with colleagues to commence a discussion to seek a
joint pharmacy approach across healthcare partnerships and
secondary care.
 
There was also discussion of
the importance of ensuring that during the consultation phase of
the Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill
consultation there was appropriate consultation to ensure there was
lived experience representation and that the consultation reached
out to the wider community.
 
After discussion the
Integration Joint Board agreed:
 

(1)          
To congratulate the staff teams on the achievement of a GOLD award
from the UNICEF baby friendly initiative;
 

(2)          
To congratulate the staff for the ongoing work and high standards
of care being delivered at Dalvenie
Gardens Very Sheltered Housing;
 

(3)          
To delegate to the Chief Officer, in consultation with the Chair
and Vice-Chair to submit a response to the Scottish Government
Consultation on the Learning Disabilities, Autism and
Neurodivergence Bill consultation, on behalf of the Integration
Joint Board; and
 

(4)          
That the Chief Officer provide a briefing note on the concept of
seeking a joint pharmacy approach across healthcare partnerships
and secondary care, and ongoing work to look at prescribing budgets
across acute and primary care.