All amber and red actions have detailed mitigation plans. A weekly report is currently provided to the exec team summarising progress against these actions. Oxfordshire JMG. Oxfordshire County Council are conducting a review and options appraisal of the provision of social care services to mental health service users, which is currently hosted by the Trust. Fundamentally the options boil down to continuing as now, tendering to the market, taking the function back in house, or taking part of the function back in house. We recognise that, historically, we have not effectively discharged all of our responsibilities in this area as we should. However, there has been an enormous amount of work to improve things over the past 6 months, with more to come. We are hopeful that we can come up with a solution that will prove workable for both parties. ‘exec We held an ‘exec to exec’ with OCCG. This focused on OCCG to exec’. community hospitals, district nursing, out of hours and workforce challenges. It was helpful to be able to spend some time looking at the challenges and opportunities faced by these services in a strategic way, rather than in the more transactional manner that is typical of the usual monthly contract monitoring meetings. Dominic Hardisty, 24th September 2017
All amber and red actions have detailed mitigation plans. A weekly report is currently provided to the exec team summarising progress against these actions. Oxfordshire JMG. Oxfordshire County Council are conducting a review and options appraisal of the provision of social care services to mental health service users, which is currently hosted by the Trust. Fundamentally the options boil down to continuing as now, tendering to the market, taking the function back in house, or taking part of the function back in house. We recognise that, historically, we have not effectively discharged all of our responsibilities in this area as we should. However, there has been an enormous amount of work to improve things over the past 6 months, with more to come. We are hopeful that we can come up with a solution that will prove workable for both parties. OCCG ‘exec to exec’. We held an ‘exec to exec’ with OCCG. This focused on community hospitals, district nursing, out of hours and workforce challenges. It was helpful to be able to spend some time looking at the challenges and opportunities faced by these services in a strategic way, rather than in the more transactional manner that is typical of the usual monthly contract monitoring meetings. Dominic Hardisty, 24th September 2017
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