Agenda and minutes

The Chairman, Councillor Linda Packard, welcomed everyone to the meeting and introduced the councillors and officers present.

Apologies for absence were received from:

Cllr Nina Phillips

Cllr Chris Caswill

Cllr Andy Phillips ( Chippenham Town Council)

Inspector Phil Staynings (Wiltshire Police)

To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting held on 7 October 2013.

Decision

The minutes of the meeting held on 7 October were agreed a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.

There were no declarations of interest.

To include the following:

·         State of the Environment

·         NHS 111 Service

The following Chairman’s Announcements were made:

·         State of the Environment Report – hard copies of the report could be found at the sign in desk for those wishing to have a copy.

·         NHS 111 – The service was launched fully on 28 October.

·         Lyneham Defence College – Lyneham Defence College was to become the country’s main training site for all 3 forces.  Further details were available within the announcement.

·         Enterprise Day – A further reminder was given the Enterprise Day in Chippenham would be held on 21 November. 

To note the written reports and receive updates from any partners who wish to contribute:

      i.        Parish and Town Councils

    ii.        Wiltshire Police

   iii.        Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service

   iv.        Chippenham and Villages Area Partnership (ChAP)

    v.        Youth Strategy Update

   vi.        Chippenham Partnership of Schools

  vii.        Other Community Groups

Updates from partners were received as follows:

      i.        Parish and Town Councils

The written reports from Christian Malford Parish Council, Grittleton Parish Council and Seagry Parish Council were noted. Further verbal updates were provided as follows:

Chippenham Town Council

Cllr Powell reported that projects were underway to benefit the town, this included:

·         The Neeld Hall - facilities were being improved to encourage further usage. 

·         Purple Flag Status – The Council aimed to achieve gold standard and all partners were working together to meet the requirements of the application which it was hoped would be submitted in October 2014.

·         Business Improvement District (BID) – Since 2004 BIDs were a popular way of securing investment into towns.  Thanks were given to Wiltshire Council for providing funding for the process.

    ii.        Wiltshire Police

Due to the close proximity to the previous meeting, no update was provided.

   iii.        Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service

The written report was circulated at the meeting, with a copy also made available on-line.

   iv.        Chippenham and Villages Area Partnership (ChAP)

No written update was provided.

    v.        Youth Strategy

The written report was noted.

   vi.        Chippenham Partnership of Schools

The written report was noted.

To consider the following application:

·         Chippenham Now in Then - £1,000

A report will follow.

The Area Board considered the following application to the Community Area Grant Scheme 2012/13:

Creative Ecology Wiltshire for Chippenham

The sum of £1,000 was requested towards the Chippenham Now in Then: Contemporary Writing from History project.

Decision:

The Area Board awarded the sum of £1,000 to Creative Ecology Wiltshire.

Reason:

The application met the Community Area Grant Criteria for 2013/14.

Representatives from the following will be in attendance to provide an overview on their areas of expertise.

·         Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)

·         Bath Royal United Hospital (RUH)

·         Chippenham Hospital

·         Public Health

·         Healthwatch Wiltshire

Following the presentations there will be an opportunity for questions.

The Chairman welcomed the Health and Wellbeing panel members to the meeting.

Each representative was invited to give a brief presentation on their respective area of expertise before questions would be welcomed from the floor.

The presentations made were as follows:

Dr Ted Wilson (Group Director for North and East Wiltshire CCG)

·         The Wiltshire CCG Governing Body comprised a number of local GPs, clinicians, health professionals and lay members.

·         The Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) was responsible for commissioning services for the people of Wiltshire, including commissioning services from the 3 main hospital providers in the area, namely Bath RUH, Great Western Hospital and Salisbury Hospital.

·         The aspirations of the CCG were to build a healthcare system based upon the needs of patients and local communities including providing care closer to home. 

·         The key priorities were:

Ø  Keeping Wiltshire healthy and preventing ill health – encouraging self management

Ø  Planned care – to ensure appropriate provision surrounded planned care

Ø  Unplanned care and caring for the frail elderly  - to ensure appropriate support for those in crisis

Ø  Mental health – to better services

Ø  Long term conditions  - ensuring appropriate delivery of care

Ø  End of life care – providing the most appropriate care for the patient, noting that 80% of those admitted to hospital indicated a preference to remain at home at end of life

Ø  Community services and integrated care – work would continue with partners to provide services

·         The CCG had been in operation as per legislative requirements since April 2013 and had made several improvements since that time, including the following:

Mental Health – improvement on dementia assessment and diagnosis. Within six months average waiting times had reduced from 11 months to 4 weeks.  Working with the voluntary sector, such as Alzheimer Support and Alzheimer Society had proven invaluable in improving the service.

Urgent Care – To deliver appropriate care, extra A&E Consultants would be in place in Bath RUH and Great Western Hospital and improvements made to the Surgical Assessment Unit.  A better model was also being developed for the discharge of patients from hospital in accordance with the wishes of the local community.

Community Transformation – The CCG were working closely with Wiltshire Council to appoint care co-ordinators across GP practices. These coordinators would support patients who may otherwise be admitted to hospital.  Enhanced community nursing support was also being provided to provide evening rapid response times within one hour. 

Additional community hospital beds would be provided over the winter period supplemented with the support of Wiltshire Council on the ‘step up, step down’ service which provided additional support to prevent hospital admissions as well as supporting those leaving hospital.

·         Dr Nick Brown (local GP) was also in attendance and confirmed that although the CCG took over responsibility from the PCT in a more financially favourable position the biggest challenge remained an increasing aging population.  Acute services were often used for elderly patients without an acute medical need and the CCG were  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.

To consider the recommendations from the CATG meeting held on 30 September.

A report following the last meeting held of the CATG on 30 September 2013 was presented for the Board’s consideration.

Following discussion, the 4 recommendations contained in the report were highlighted and the board asked to vote accordingly.

Decision

1)    To note the latest information on schemes in progress (as outlined in Appendix 1 of the report);

2)    To approve the list of schemes recommended for prioritisation and allocate funding (as outlined in Appendix 2 of the report);

3)    To approve the list of schemes recommended for retention and further consideration (as outlined in Appendix 3 of the report); and

4)    To approve the list of requests recommended for removal (as outlined in Appendix 4 of the report).

To receive updates on the Area Board’s Focus Areas as follows:

      i.        Road Safety – Lead Councillor: Bill Douglas

    ii.        Crime & Community Safety – Lead Councillor: Peter Hutton

   iii.        Deprivation – Lead Councillor: Chris Caswill.

Updates were received as follows:

      i.        Road Safety

Councillor Bill Douglas was not in attendance and therefore unable to provide an update.

    ii.        Crime & Community Safety

Councillor Desna Allen reported that Mike Franklin was welcomed to the last meeting of the Group in addition to Michael Weeks, who had taken over responsibility as Street Pastor coordinator.

The development of an Emergency Plan for Chippenham was moving forward with a desktop exercise event planned for March 2014 with relevant partners to pull the Plan together.

To deal with graffiti on a wall near JCP it was proposed that it should be whitewashed and that a community art project should be carried out with the involvement of students from primary to college level.  Permissions were currently being sought.

The Group were aware that the Chair of Pubwatch wished to attend future meetings which was welcomed.  Further expansion of the Group would be discussed at its next meeting. 

   iii.        Deprivation

Councillor Chris Caswill had given apologies for the meeting and was therefore unable to provide a verbal update.

The Chairman will invite any remaining questions from the floor and will welcome the submission of new Community Issues.

The next agenda planning meeting will take place on Wednesday 27 November at 10am. Any parish or town council representative interested in attending should contact the Community Area manager or the Chairman.

The Chairman thanked everyone for their attendance. The next meeting would take place on 6 January 2014 at the Neeld Hall, Chippenham.

All were reminded that the focus of the next meeting would  be highways and transport.