Issue - meetings
Integration of Health and Care Transformation Programme
Meeting: 27/03/2017 - Cabinet (Item 111)
111 Integration of Health and Care Transformation Programme 
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Additional documents:
- Appendix 2 - Integration Health and Care Overview Scrutiny Report, item 111
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- Appendix 4 - Integration Health and Care Partnership Governance Chart, item 111
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- Appendix 6 - Integration Health and Care Operating Model, item 111
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- Appendix 8 - Integration Health and Care List of Service Level Agreements, item 111
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Minutes:
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Councillor Christine Jones, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, said:
“The people of Wirral told us that they want improved and more fully integrated services in relation to health and care.
They want to tell their story once; they want one number to call and to receive a properly co-ordinated response to their care and support needs.
To this end we are bringing together community nurses, community matrons, social workers and therapists in four areas clustered around GP practices to work as one service to support people in their local communities.
The aim is to deliver the right care, in the right place, at the right time, in order to ensure that our residents are able to be as independent as possible but get access to important health and care services when they need them”. |
Councillor Phil Davies informed that Paddy Cleary Wirral UNISON’s Branch Secretary had asked if he could address the Cabinet on this item of business and he had given him permission.
Mr Cleary thanked the Cabinet for allowing him to speak on behalf of the members of Wirral UNISON. He made clear that it was because of the Government’s austerity measures that public services were under constant attack. The reduction in grant funding meant that UNISON would become solely reliant on the income it could generate and the subscriptions paid. However, Mr Cleary was concerned because he perceived that the Council had not communicated or consulted with UNISON on the reports the Cabinet were considering at the meeting.
Mr Cleary informed that prior to receiving this Cabinet agenda UNISON had a workable relationship with the Council’s leadership through challenging times and some resolutions had been agreed and difficult decisions had been made. UNISON had been promised that it would be consulted on alternative delivery models and future provision of services. Mr Cleary was disappointed that this now did not seem to be the case with items on the agenda for this meeting. He was disappointed that a political party that the union was affiliated to had not provided UNISON with the same opportunities it had provided to consultants and other outside agencies whose ultimate agenda was not in the best interests of UNISON members and did not put Wirral residents first. Mr Cleary informed that he found it insulting that consultants could address the Labour Group and share information whilst UNISON was prevented from doing so. He also found it insulting that managers, staff and Trade Unions were not involved in scrutiny groups.
Mr Cleary reported that UNISON was not opposed to the concept of integration but it was concerned about the terms and conditions that its members were actual transferring across to the Trust on. He informed that time and again, the union had battled to defend the terms and conditions of its members. His view was that the labour council should honour these terms that had been negotiated and fought for.
Mr Cleary also informed that UNISON was pleased that its members were transferring ... view the full minutes text for item 111