Issue - meetings

Members received the Harrow Mental Health Transformation and Community Services Model.

Central and North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust was implementing a new integrated model for Community Mental Health Services to ensure people were offered the care they needed in a joined up way.

Harrow was a National Early Implementer of the new model.  The community hubs would wrap around Primary Care Networks, using population health approach, integrate primary, secondary and social care for adults with severe mental illnesses and deliver intervention-based care in line with national expectations.

The NHS Long Term Plan for Mental Health Services were:

·                 joined-up and coordinated care to support the increasing number of people with long-term health conditions;

·                 more proactive in services provided with a local focus;

·                 more differentiated support offered to people to take more control of how they manage their physical and mental wellbeing; and

·                 integration of mental and physical health care.

Members were concerned with the timeframe for patients accessing services, and the differences in timescales between local and national organisations.

It was advised that Harrow was striving to reduce the timeframe, and bring it below the national average.

RESOLVED: That the Model be noted.