Agenda item
Minutes
Minutes:
The Minutes were approved, subject to the following amendments:
Page 3 of the minutes, should refer to Sir David Sloman.
Page 9 should read ‘North Central London (NCL) CCGs.’
Matter arising from the previous meeting:
·
The
committee had been awaiting an update on the Diabetic Alerting
System mentioned in the Quality Accounts (2016-17) of the Royal
Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Mike Greenberg (Medical
Director, Barnet Hospital) explained that this was known as the
STREAMS system and that discussion surrounding the technology had
taken place, but the system had yet to be rolled out. Dr Greenberg
said other work around diabetes was being conducted. The Chairman
asked that an update on the work being done surrounding diabetes be
brought to the February meeting for the Committee to
scrutinise.
·
The Care
Closer to Home Integrated Networks (CHINS) information had been
received. The governance Officer would email this information round
to Members of the Committee.
Action: Governance Officer
· The Chairman updated the Committee on the planning application in relation to Barnet Hospital parking. The Chairman read out a response from Barnet planning department which said ‘The Royal Free had sought pre-application advice from Barnet planning department to redevelop the Barnet Hospital site with additional hospital facilities and some residential development on some of the existing car park land. The plans incorporated a multi-level car park which would consolidate all of the existing car parking on the site along with additional car parking to service all the needs of the additional hospital facilities and the proposed residential accommodation.
The outline pre-application envisaged approximately 1100 parking spaces dedicated to the hospital along with approximately 400 parking spaces for the proposed residential accommodation. This number may increase or decrease subject to full assessment. Spaces would be mostly accommodated within the aforementioned multi-level car park with some limited ground level parking also proposed.
The Royal Free are awaiting the necessary board approvals to go
forward with the proposals and it is currently expected that a
planning application would be submitted in Spring 2019 following
some public consultation on the plans in early
2019.’
Dr Steve Shaw (CEO,
Barnet Hospital) had been invited to attend the November meeting to
further discuss the issues.
Action: Dr Shaw
· Barnet CCG had been asked to bring a report to a future meeting on the GP Workload Collection Tool. NHS Digital is leading on the development of the GP Workforce Collection tool. The timeline for rolling out the new tool is now the first quarter of 2019.
Action: Barnet CCG
·
A Member
also asked that a report on the health provision plans for
Cricklewood, NW2 and the impact of Brent Cross South be brought to
the Committee. The CCG has a Strategic
Oversight Group which oversees all Primary Care Estates projects in
Barnet. The CCG agreed to bring a
report back to the HOSC in the New Year.
Action: Barnet CCG
·
Ms Kay
Matthews (Chief Operating Officer, Barnet CCG) was asked to provide
the void costs for Finchley Memorial Hospital up to August 2018.
She said she would have to take this away and would provide the
void cost information that the CCG had available.
Action: Ms Matthews
·
The
Committee queried what was causing the delay in bringing a GP
practice into Finchley Memorial. Ms Matthews explained that there
had been a challenge to the process which was currently being
reviewed and that further comment couldn’t be made until the
outcome of this is known. She explained that dealing with the
challenge was a lengthy process. Ms Matthews said the GP practice
would be a good community resource and the increased number of
patients attending FMH would also benefit the pharmacy and
café which provide a valuable community service. The
Committee asked how much remaining void space there would be at
Finchley Memorial. Ms Matthews said 95% of the site had now been
leased and there were no plans to lease any further space as the 5%
was needed to allow flexibility.
Members asked whether TfL had been consulted about improving the
transport to the Royal Free Hospital. Ms Matthews said that they
were not currently working with TfL in this regard. She recognised
it would be really helpful to improve the transport links to FMH
and said she welcomed support from all parties to work towards
achieving this. The Chairman suggested that once the hospital was
close to its maximum footfall, then conversations with Ward
Councillors could be held and also with the local MP and Assembly
Member. Ms Matthews agreed this was a sensible approach and that an
update would be brought back to the Committee once it was known if
it was possible to move a GP practice into the hospital and there
was further information regarding the anticipated footfall. Kay
Matthews drew the attention of the HOSC to the important point that
there is a detailed due diligence process which has to be completed
before it can be confirmed that a GP Practice can move into FMH
which is over and above the phase of the process which is currently
being undertaken.
Action: Ms Matthews
·
The Chairman
confirmed that a representative from the Community Health
Partnerships (CHP) would be attending the November meeting and the
recent update that she had received would be circulated by the
Governance Officer to the Committee.
Action: Governance Officer
·
Dr Debbie
Frost (Chairman, Barnet CCG) Confirmed that the CCG monitored its
Extended Access Contract and it’s Out of Hours service
through its normal contractual processes which included performance
metrics and agreed KPIs.
Action: Dr Frost and Governance Officer
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