Issue - meetings

The Board resolved :-

(i)            to approve the preferred option 2, as set out in Appendix 1, relating to the HMP&YOI Grampian – Joint City/Shire Prison-wide Mental Health service project;

(ii)          to instruct the Chief Officer, ACHSCP to work with the Chief Officer of Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Partnership to implement the project as set out in the report; and

(iii)         to 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 had before it the report from the Chief Officer, ACHSCP.

The report sought approval to agree financial expenditure to progress projects

to deliver against the ACHSCP strategic aims and progress towards the Scottish Government Action 15 programme plan, previously approved by the IJB on 28August 2018.

Members heard from the Mental Health/Learning Disability/SMS Services Lead that this was an amendment to the previous report which had been presented to the Board at its last meeting and included observations and comments from that meeting.

The report recommended :-

that the Board –

(a)          approve the preferred option 2, 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, ACHSCP 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 approve the recommendations