Agenda item

Adult Care and Community Wellbeing Performance Report - Quarter 4 2019/20

(To receive a report by Caroline Jackson, Performance Manager, Adult Care and Community Wellbeing, which presents performance against Council Business Plan targets for the Directorate as at the end of Quarter 4 2019/20)

Minutes:

The Chairman welcomed to the meeting Caroline Jackson, Performance Manager, Commercial Services.

 

The Committee was advised that the report pertaining to this item could be found on pages 15 to 72 of the agenda pack.  The report provided the Committee with an overview of performance for the suite of Corporate Plan measures designed to reflect the impact of the work of Adult Care and Community Wellbeing across five commissioning strategies.

 

Detailed at Appendix A to the report was a one page summary of performance against each target for the year; and Appendix B provided the Committee with a full analysis of each indicator over the year.  The Committee was advised that the report only covered 19 of the 24 measures and that this was primarily as a result of data not being available for five of the measures, due to Covid-19.  Of the 19 measures reported for Quarter four, 16 were reported as being either on target or exceeding target; and three were reported as being below target.

 

The three measures below target were:

 

·         M31 - Percentage of alcohol users that left specialist treatment successfully.  The Committee were reminded that this measure had been discussed previously at the 26 February 2020 meeting.  As a result, the target for 2020/21 had been changed to reflect a more appropriate target of 35% compared to the current target of 40%;

·         M34 – Chlamydia diagnosis – It was highlighted that this matter had also been discussed at the February meeting.  The Committee was advised that it had been agreed for this measure to be removed from quarter one 2020/21, as it was felt that it was not an appropriate measure. The Committee noted that the measure would be replaced once a suitable measure had been developed which was aligned to the new national sexual health strategy; and

·         M111 - People are supported to successfully quit smoking. The Committee noted the figure of 504 (people supported to successfully quit smoking) reported in quarter three had not been cumulative, the figure reported should have been 939.  The Committee noted further that there was a three month data lag and that the target was planned to be changed to reflect contractual requirements for 2020/21.

 

The Committee was advised that work was currently on-going developing performance reporting for the new Corporate Plan Success Framework and wider Council's performance and that this would be reported on from quarter two.

 

During a short discussion, the Committee raised the following points:

 

·         The implications of Covid-19.  The Committee was advised that there had not been any patterns emerging.  It was however noted that there had been a reduction in the number of safeguarding contacts; and unlike the national picture, Lincolnshire had not seen a rise in the number of domestic abuse cases.  It noted that work was on-going with the Wellbeing Service to see if any trends emerged once lock down started to ease;

·         Forecasting assumptions – Reassurance was given that all providers were being monitored on a regular basis;

·         Smoking cessation page 33 of the report pack – A question was asked whether smoking was reducing nationally and whether any lessons could be learnt from Lancashire, whose performance figures were better than Lincolnshire's.  The Committee was advised that officers were looking into what Lancashire was doing differently.  The Committee noted that the rate of successful quits in Lincolnshire was declining, and that this was comparable to the national trend.  The Committee noted further that although smoking was reducing, there had been an increase in the number people vaping as an alternative to smoking.  It was highlighted that the opinion of Public Health England was that vaping was not as detrimental to health as smoking was.

 

AGREED

 

That the progress for Adult Care and Wellbeing Performance Report for Quarter 4 be noted; and that contact should be made with authority's performing better to share best practice.

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