Agenda and minutes

There were no declarations of interest received at this point in the meeting.

Representatives of the South Tees NHS Foundation Trust will be in attendance to present the Trust’s draft Quality Account for 2023/2024.

The People Scrutiny Panel welcomed the opportunity to consider the South Tees NHS Foundation Trust’s draft Quality Account for 2023/2024.

A formal written response, detailing the scrutiny panel’s comments and feedback, needed to be submitted to the Trust by Friday, 14 June 2024.

The Trust’s Chief Nurse, Compliance Manager and Deputy Director of Quality were in attendance to deliver a presentation, which outlined the priorities for improvement and the quality of services at the Trust.  The presentation focused on the following matters:

·        University Hospitals Tees.

·        Mental Health Strategy.

·        Maternity Care Quality Commission (CQC).

·        Implementing Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and Family Liaison Officers (FLO).

·        Digital Journey - Electronic Prescribing and Medicine Administration (EPMA) and MIYA.

·        South Tees Quality Priorities Update 2023/2024.

·        Drafting and agreeing Quality Priorities for the year as a group.

Members were provided with background information regarding the Quality Account.  It was explained that this was an annual undertaking that every Hospital Trust was required to do.  The document reviewed performance over the last 12 months, focusing on areas such as:

• Patient safety.
• Progress made and impact on patients.
• The challenges faced and how these were addressed. 

The document also set out the plans for the next 12 months and the priorities that would be looked at.  The draft document was circulated to partners for comment/ feedback before it was finalised and shared with Parliament - this would take place at the end of June 2024.

Regarding group developments, Members heard that the last 12 months had been a busy period across the Tees Valley.  The new group Chief Executive Officer was appointed in January 2024, with a wider group Executive Team being appointed in February/March 2024.  The team would cover both South Tees and North Tees going forward.  Group clinical boards had been established to deliver a clinical strategy across the Tees Valley (entitled ‘Caring Better Together’), and a new group name and identity announced, i.e., University Hospitals Tees.  It was highlighted that the existing names of the statutory organisations, i.e., University Hospital of North Tees, The James Cook University Hospital and Friarage Hospital, would remain in use.

Details regarding the South Tees Hospitals Mental Health Strategy 2024 were provided to the panel.  Members were informed that the strategy had been developed last year as part of a three-year approach.  Some of the elements had already been delivered in their entirety, whereas others continued into years two and three.  The strategy had been developed, approved and published on the Trust intranet.  The focus was to develop, improve, learn from, and enhance the provision of mental health care for patients, alongside their physical health needs.  Next steps pertaining to the Mental Health Strategy were outlined, which included:

• Commencing development of a Mental Health dashboard.
• Reviewing tools used within the Emergency Department during triage to deliver safe and effective care.
• Improve mental health training compliance across the Trust.
• Review mental health strategies across the group.

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Representatives of TEWV NHS Foundation Trust will be in attendance to present the Trust’s draft Quality Account for 2023/2024.

The People Scrutiny Panel welcomed the opportunity to consider the TEWV NHS Foundation Trust’s draft Quality Account for 2023/2024.

A copy of the Quality Account document had been provided to Members in advance of the meeting.

A Member raised concerns that there were no representatives from TEWV in attendance at the meeting, given that representatives from South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust had been in attendance to present the information and answer questions.  It was commented that concerns about the TEWV report were more serious than those relating to the South Tees report.  In response, the Democratic Services Officer explained that, unfortunately, a late scheduling conflict had been presented and was unavoidable.  The Chair commented that, as the People Scrutiny Panel was one of several bodies reviewing the draft Quality Account, it was hoped that as the process continued, any questions would be asked.  The Democratic Services Officer explained that if Members had any further questions or comments, these could be emailed to the Democratic Services Officers for forwarding to the Trust.

AGREED

1. That the TEWV NHS Foundation Trust’s 2023/2024 draft Quality Account document be noted.
2. That Members forward any questions or comments to the Democratic Services Officers, for responses to be obtained from TEWV NHS Foundation Trust.
3. That the information, as provided, be noted.

None.