Mr Jason Oxley, Assistant Director Health and Care introduced the report of the Director for Care and Health (DASS) that provided the 2017/18 Quarter 3 (October - December 2017) performance for the Wirral Plan pledges under the remit of the Adult Care and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee. The report provided a description of the progress in Quarter 3 as well as providing available data in relation to a range of outcome indicators and supporting measures. The report also included further performance information that had been requested by Members to enable effective scrutiny. Detailed graphics / information on the Adult Social Care and Health Performance Overview were also included as an appendix to the report.

Mr Oxley informed that the report had been further developed following Member feedback and included key performance data covering the areas of health and social care.

Members were apprised of a number of improvements made since the last report to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, particularly in the following areas:

• The percentage of Wirral residents over 50 in employment had improved for a fifth successive quarter and continued to close the gap between Wirral and the average across the rest of the country.

• The health related quality of life for people with long term conditions had improved for residents since March 2016. Wirral was closing the gap on the average across the country.

• The introduction of pre-payment cards had a positive effect in quarter 3 which saw the number of adults reported to be in receipt of personal budgets increasing from 651 at Quarter 2 to 899.

A Member questioned Mr Oxley on how meaningful the data and sample group relating to some areas under report might be - e.g. percentage of older people (aged 50+) who feel safe when out in the local area after dark. Mr Oxley informed that Member’s comments would be passed back to the officers who dealt with the data sets and their collection. A written response was requested by the Chair.

Resolved – That the report be noted.