Issue - meetings

The Localities Manager, NHS Highland provided the Group with a verbal update on the following:

·         Integration – Ground level staff are enthusiastic, which will have a positive impact on creating a new joint working from the ground up.

·         Technology enabled care funding – A pilot scheme on Bute for remote health monitoring has now turned into a three year national project.

·         Delayed Discharge – Additional funding is now in place which will help to enable the new national target of discharging a medically fit patient to the appropriate resource within two weeks.

·         Integrated Care Fund – 13 bids currently in with an expectation of in excess of 20 bids by the closing date.

·         Bute and Cowal Highland Games - Extra NHS resources are in place for both events.

·         Winter planning process is already underway.

·         A review on out of hours  health service access is currently taking place, with a report on findings expected to go back to the Health Minister in September.

Decision:

The Group noted the verbal update.

(Ref: Verbal update by NHS Highland dated 11 August 2015, submitted)