Issue - meetings

Councillor Getliffe submits a report informing the Cabinet of the completion of phase two of the Mental Health Integration Project and providing an update on progress with the integration work programme. The Cabinet is asked to consider a number of recommendations with regard to entering into a partnership agreement with Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare Trust, Leicestershire County Council and Rutland County Council for the provision of integrated mental health care.

Councillor Getliffe submitted a report informing the Cabinet of the completion of phase two of the Mental Health Integration Project and provided an update on progress with the integration work programme.

The Director of Social Services informed the meeting that the Social Services and Personal Health Scrutiny Committee had broadly supported the recommendations contained within the report. He also commented there were difficulties with the proposed name for the organisation where it was hoped the “Leicester Shire” principle as used in other organisations which involved Leicester City, Leicestershire and Rutland, would prove agreeable to all involved. The Cabinet also agreed that there should be all party involvement on the Partnership.

RESOLVED:

(1)that entry be approved, into a Partnership Agreement under Section 31 of the Health Act 1999 using the ‘Integrated Provision’ flexibility to support the integration of services for working age adults provided currently by the following organisations:

Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare Trust

Leicester City Council

Leicestershire County Council

Rutland County Council;

(2)that the need for a Memorandum of Agreement be supported, between the partner organisations that describes the responsibility, accountability, and liability of each party for service requirements, staffing, finance and assets;

(3)that it be noted, the negotiation and drafting of the Memorandum with related documents will have the full input of the Local Authorities’ Legal and Administrative Services and the Trust Solicitor, until satisfactory conclusion of the agreement was reached between the respective parties;

(4)that there be all party involvement on the board of the proposed Partnership, with the Cabinet Lead Member for Social Services and Personal Health taking the lead position;

(5)that it be agreed, subject to the satisfactory completion of a written Partnership Agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) as identified in the regulations, that the intended date for the start of the Partnership is 1^st April 2002;

(6)that the Director of Social Services be authorised (in consultation with Cabinet Lead) to conclude negotiations and approve the final terms of the Partnership Agreement; and

(7)that it be noted the name preferred by Leicester City Council for the new organisation is the “Leicester Shire Partnership NHS Trust”, with the additional strap line “Providing mental health and learning disability services for the people of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.”