Issue - meetings

The Board resolved :-

(i)            to note the change to cancel the Mental Health & Wellbeing Out of Hours Hub business case previously approved by the IJB on the 19th September 2019;

(ii)          to approve the expenditure, as set out in the Business Case at Appendix 1 relating to the Mental Health First Contact Support project which amalgamates & supersedes the Mental Health & Wellbeing Out of Hours project above;

(iii)         to instruct the Chief Officer, ACHSCP to make the direction relating to the Mental Health First Contact Support project as per Appendix 2 and issue to Aberdeen City Council; and

(iv)         to instruct the Chief Officer, ACHSCP to ensure regular update reports on Action 15 be presented toe the Risk, Audit and Performance Committee (RAPC).

The Board had before it the report from the Chief Officer, ACHSCP, which sought to progress a Locality First Contact Mental Health & Wellbeing Project to deliver against the ACHSCP strategic aims and progress towards the Scottish Government Action 15 programme plan, previously approved by the Integrated Joint Board (IJB) on 28 August 2018.

Members heard an overview of the proposal which sought to address one of the actions from the Scottish Government’ sNational Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027.

Members were reminded that in September 2019 they had approved a business case for the Mental Wellbeing Out of Hours Hub (Accident Emergency Department and Kittybrewster Custody Suite) which due to the continuing pandemic had not been progressed and that a new emergent need as the landscape of attendances and footfall in current services had changed, had resulted in a re-examination of the original business case. The new business case would help support emergent Mental Health needs as a result of Covid19.

The report recommended :-

that the Board -

(a)          note the change to cancel the Mental Health & Wellbeing Out of Hours Hub business case previously approved by the IJB on the 19th September 2019;

(b)          approve the expenditure, as set out in the Business Case at Appendix 1 relating to the Mental Health First Contact Support project which amalgamated & superseded the Mental Health & Wellbeing Out of Hours project above; and

(c)          instruct the Chief Officer, ACHSCP to make the direction relating to the Mental Health First Contact Support project as per Appendix 2 and issue to Aberdeen City Council.

The Board resolved :-

(i)                 to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)               to instruct the Chief Officer, ACHSCP, to ensure regular update reports on Action 15 be presented to the Risk, Audit and Performance Committee (RAPC).