Issue - meetings

The Board resolved :-

to request submission of an amended report to its next meeting on 1 December 2020.

The Board had before it the report from the Chief Officer, ACHSCP, which sought to progress the delivery of a tiered approach to support people in custody within HMP&YOI Grampian.

The project was to improve mental wellbeing recognising characteristics (such as trauma history, cognitive impairment, impact of substance misuse, socio-economic determinants) by providing a holistic and targeted service which addressed the Scottish Government Action 15 programme plan, previously approved by the Integrated Joint Board (IJB) on 28August 2018.

Members heard that Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership had lead responsibility for the health and wellbeing of the population of HMP&YOI

Grampian and that the project had been developed in partnership with them, and that approval from the IJB to incur expenditure was required.

Members sought clarity around the funding distribution and options appraisal presented and were not sufficiently content with the information available.

The report recommended :-

that the Board –

(a)          approve the expenditure, as set out in Appendix 1, relating to the HMP&YOI Grampian – Joint City/Shire Prison-wide Mental Health service project;

(b)          instruct the Chief Officer of Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership to work with the Chief Officer of Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Partnership to implement the project as set out in the Report; and

(c)          instruct the Chief Officer to make the Direction relating to HMP & YOI Grampian Joint City/Shire Prison-wide Mental Health Project as per Appendix 2 and issue to NHS Grampian.

The Board resolved :-

to request submission of an amended report to its next meeting on 1 December 2020.