National Programme Board for Prisoner Healthcare
Programme Board Briefing
22nd January 2010
The National Programme Board for Prisoner Healthcare met on Friday 22nd January. Formal minutes will be made available in due course; however in the meantime the key points for your information are as follows:
Chair provided an update about his movements over the last few months, including his presentation to both NHS Chairs and NHS Chief Executives, an introductory meeting with the HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, his visits to the Open Estate, Polmont and the SPS Health & Care Directorate, and his visit to the State Hospital.
The Programme Team provided a progress update which included discussion about the upcoming visits to each prison, the identification of Health Board Leads and recruitment of the fourth team member (Project Manager).
The Programme Board Remit and various pieces of programme documentation including the programme structure, high level programme plan and communication plan were all approved. These will be published on SPS Sharepoint and Scottish Government website shortly. It was agreed that evaluation should be considered as the programme develops through the workstreams.
Workstream Chairs were invited to provide their updates:
- Model of Care - discussion took place about the Modelling exercise that is underway in relation to HMP Dumfries/NHS Dumfries & Galloway. This exercise will provide a template for consideration/adaptation by Local Implementation Groups. Discussion also took place about the recommendation by the Model of Care workstream to consider the establishment of a Managed Care Network.
- Finance - Graeme Hutton, SPS Acting Director of Finance, attended the meeting to provide an update on progress to date in terms of identifying SPS health care costs. It was noted that details of the model of care and confirmation as to what services are transferring are required to allow detailed financial work to take place.
- HR - Stephen Swan, SPS HR Director, provided an update on the work SPS is undertaking with Government Actuary Department (GAD) in relation to pensions. Discussion took place about the Terms & Conditions subgroup and the Job Evaluation subgroup - it was agreed that these groups can be established.
- Throughcare - it was reported that work is underway to identify members and determine the group remit. The first meeting is expected to take place mid-February.
- Governance - it was reported that a short-life working group met in January to discuss high level governance arrangements. It was agreed to draft a Memorandum of Understanding between relevant parties for consideration by the group in March, before presentation to Programme Board in April. Issues related to monitoring and scrutiny will be considered in the next phase of the work.
Discussion took place about IT. It was noted that work is underway within SPS to scope out the existing situation and thoughts for the future in terms of clinical systems, links between existing SPS systems and health systems, and links to NHS networks. It was agreed that SPS will discuss proposals further with NHS and Scottish Government colleagues, and present a paper at the next Board meeting.
It was agreed to review/update the Risk & Issue Log in advance of the next meeting.
The next meeting is likely to take place in April - date to be confirmed.
If there are any queries about the information contained within this briefing, please contact the Project Team
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