Issue - meetings
Tower Hamlets Together Bi-annual update Fin Comment
Meeting: 17/11/2020 - Tower Hamlets Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 6)
6 Tower Hamlets Together Report PDF 863 KB
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Minutes:
The Board received a presentation from Amy Whitelock-Gibbs (Chair of the Tower Hamlets Together Partnership on the Annual Report. A summary of the discussion is set out below:
A summary of the discussion is set out below:
The Board noted that:
- Tower Hamlets Together is really a core partnership group across the Council, the Clinical Commissioning Group; the voluntary sector, the Mental Health Trust; The Royal London Hospital; and the Borough’s Primary Care Networks.
- The response to the pandemic by the Partnership was rapid and an impressive demonstration of effective partnership working a testament to everyone involved.
- The Partnership saw real change driven by the front-line staff and barriers to integrated care were unlocked within a matter of days and weeks e.g. issues around on financing; staffing; data sharing and information sharing.
- In the light of those lessons the Partnership has revised its governance arrangements with an executive group to focus on strategic priorities and a broader operational group which owns the winter plan for both health and social care keeping inclusion and the users’ voice at the heart of all the work in the partnership.
- The Partnership had funded some digital inclusion work a co-production product to test different ways of working within partnership with the voluntary sector and service users.
- The Partnership is reviewing the priorities that need to ensure are being delivered over the winter partly because they are winter priorities but also as the Borough is in the middle of the pandemic. Especially making sure the management of demand on services (e.g. social care; hospital services; care homes; and end of life care). Whilst in the medium and longer term will look at how services need to be resigned.
- Operational senior operational staff have expressed a real concern about not losing some of the benefits of the response to the pandemic as mentioned earlier such organised coordination of patient care and address the practical barriers. As the Borough has epidemics of non-infectious diseases e.g. cardiovascular disease; diabetes and cancer as for many people this will have far more far-reaching impacts on people's health. Much can be learned about how the partnership can work together a core lesson from the management of the response to pandemic.
In conclusion, the Chair thanked Amy Whitelock-Gibbs for her presentation.
The Chair then Moved, and it was RESOLVED to note Report.