To make proposals for the development of high-performing health and social care services by 2012 to meet the expected future needs of 18-64 year-olds in Herefordshire with mental health problems and physical disabilities, having regard to the views expressed on the proposals by the Adult Social Care and Strategic Housing Scrutiny Committee and the Health Scrutiny Committee.

Cabinet Member of Social Care, Adults and Health presented the report for Cabinet consideration which had been considered by the Adult Social Care and Strategic Housing Scrutiny Committee and the Health Scrutiny Committee, the comments of both Committees being appended to the report.

During discussion is was suggested by a member in attendance that an additional recommendation be considered for approval to encompass the comments from the Adult Social Care and Strategic Housing Scrutiny Committee and the Health Scrutiny Committee, as follows (as in last line of paragraph 11).  The motion was seconded and it was agreed that the following sentence to additionally added to the recommendation:

‘The committees’ other resolutions to be taken into account in the course of implementing the new patterns of services’.

RESOLVED

THAT:

(a)   the proposed patterns of high-performing mental health and physical disability services be approved and put in place between April 2008 and March 2012.

(b)   These be achieved by means of detailed joint commissioning plans of the Council and the Herefordshire Primary Care Trust.

(c)   The adequacy of the new patterns of services be subject to a further full review of needs and services by 2012 in the light of better data and of actual demand for modernised services

(d)   The results of the review be used to inform budget planning at that time

And additionally

(e) the committees’ other resolutions to be taken into account in the course of implementing the new patterns of services.