Agenda item

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