Issue - meetings

A report will be presented by Claire Taylor, WCC Commissioner (Maintaining and Promoting Independence).

A report was presented by Claire Taylor, the commissioner responsible for maintaining and promoting independence. This included a PowerPoint presentation which covered the following areas:

• Coventry and Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia Strategy, a joint, system-wide strategy across Coventry and Warwickshire (with a place-based focus in action plans). An outline of the work undertaken in drafting the new strategy.
• The vision and six key priority areas of: preventing well (reducing risk), diagnosing well, supporting well, living well, dying well and training well. The strategy had a ‘plan on a page’ approach for each of the six priority areas.
• A focus on key objectives; reviewing progress and additional objectives where required.
• A focus on what still needed to be achieved and how it would be measured.
• Reflection on progress to date.
• The equality impact assessment, to be reviewed throughout the lifetime of the strategy.
• Ensuring effective alignment with other strategies. 
• Current engagement with stakeholders over six weeks. Details provided of the mechanisms being employed and next steps to review and collate feedback, leading to the revised strategy being submitted for approvals and publication early in 2022.

It was reported that Coventry and Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia Strategy had been refreshed. A period of engagement commenced in early September 2021 and the strategy for the period 2022-2027 would be reviewed thereafter and published in early 2022. The report set out the close working with colleagues through the Health and Care Partnership Dementia Board. The draft strategy had been presented at various boards and approved by the County Council’s Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care and Health. There were benefits of having a joint strategy for Coventry and Warwickshire, both for commissioning and service providers.

The strategy would be a system document across health and social care in Coventry and Warwickshire with a system partnership approach, fully supported by NHS colleagues and delivered in partnership with the voluntary and community sector. The report detailed the approach to producing the draft strategy, the wide engagement including stakeholders and how this strategy aligned to other local strategies, which focussed on carer wellbeing. Following the engagement, feedback would be collated, published and provided to stakeholders with the findings incorporated in the draft strategy where appropriate. The strategy would be presented to various boards and bodies including the Health and Wellbeing Board and the county council’s Cabinet for approval and would then be published on the Council’s website. 

The following points and observations were made:

• A question on the age profile of those with dementia as it seemed that more young people now had dementia. Key information would be provided in the strategy. An offer was made to provide up to date information regarding early onset dementia for the committee.
• Points about end-of-life care and ‘dying well’. There was praise for the services provided by the Admiral nurses. An area where the strategy could be strengthened concerned the end-of-life period and the dialogue with relatives. Some family members only became involved at the end-of-life but might  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6