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Meeting: 20/03/2023 - Tower Hamlets Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 1)
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v Noted that would be Mike Smith’s last meeting and that over the past twelve years, Mike has contributed significantly to Real’s growth and development. Under his leadership Real has (i) become one of Tower Hamlet’s leading pan-disability organisation (ii) succeeded in forging strong links within the Council, other statutory bodies.
v Noted that Chris Banks, Co-CEO of the GP Care Group was retiring the Board placed on record its best wishes with his retirement and thanked him for knowledge and frankness in Board discussions.
v Noted that regarding the Junior doctor’s industrial dispute these medical professionals make up half of the medical workforce at the trust and includes doctors ranging from those who have recently finished medical school, up to doctors with 10 years' experience.
v Noted that during the industrial action, the Trust consultants took on the work of the junior doctors, supported by nursing staff, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.
v Noted that that the Trust has prioritised emergency care for those who urgently need it, they also rescheduled some appointments due to take place during the strike action.
v Noted that length of the walkout, coupled with the fact it started on a Monday - traditionally the busiest day of the week - had made it more difficult than previous strikes by nurses and ambulance staff.
v Noted it will take time to rebook patients who have treatments and appointments cancelled e.g., Patients have to be individually prioritised.
Meeting: 17/01/2023 - Tower Hamlets Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 1)
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v Noted that LBTH continues to work with colleagues across the partnership in terms of the cost-of-living crisis and that one of the most significant measures of support that the Council has been initiated with the Councils benefits service being responsible for administering claims for free school meals on behalf of the council’s education department and is available to children attending schools within Tower Hamlets.
v Noted that 19,000 vouchers had gone out just before the Yuletide Festivities to those children eligible for free school meals, and 76% of those as of today have been cashed.
v Noted details of the Healthy Start Scheme a national programme helping children of low-income families to be healthy who may be eligible for a free Healthy Start Card with money to spend on milk and healthy food and the value could be over £1,000 per child over their lifetime, if claimed from pregnancy to the child’s 4th birthday.
v Noted that all the healthy start vouchers went out prior to the for all have all gone out just before the Yuletide Festivities and is a really significant measure to help struggling families.
v Noted that that Barts Health is under such extreme pressure due to a multitude of complex factors across the whole health and care system. In many areas the Borough is seeing the highest levels of demand ever, combined with restricted capacity, increasing patient needs and high public expectation, culminating in the greatest pressure on the NHS in a generation.
v Noted that the demand for places for younger pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) is increasing. The number of pupils with Statements or Education, Health, and Care Plans (EHCPs), requiring specialist provision to meet their needs, has risen in LBTH and the complexity of these needs is increasing which is putting considerable strain on the education system.
v Noted that the pandemic has impacted on children’s literacy and mathematical skills, communication and language, physical development, and personal.
v Noted separate report summarising research on the impact of the pandemic on learning finds attainment gap between socially disadvantaged pupils and their classmates has grown.
v Noted there is some evidence that in primary schools, younger year groups have been the most significantly affected.
v Noted that whilst the impact of coronavirus on the NHS has been unprecedented, the NHS now faces another unique challenge - restoring planned care to previous levels. The staff responded incredibly well to each Covid-19 peak, and the NHS has learned lessons from the experience and is therefore better prepared to meet the next challenge.
v Noted that three key themes have emerged that enables effective discharge planning: Improved communication, improved co-ordination of services and improved collaboration.
v Noted that commissioner and provider organisations examine the local processes they have in place for discharge planning, ensuring that transfer of care between services is planned around the needs of patients, families, and carers at all times.
v Noted that at a practitioner level, there ... view the full minutes text for item 1