Statutory Joint Southwark/Lambeth Health Scrutiny Committee

Background

Local authority health scrutiny committees are required to establish a joint health scrutiny committee to consider and respond to health service proposals for development of or variation to services that affect more than one local authority area and that are considered "substantial" by the health scrutiny committees for areas affected by the proposals.

Purpose/aims of the joint committee

A joint Southwark/Lambeth health scrutiny committee was set up scrutinise South London and Maudsley [SLaM] NHS Trust's proposals for providing crisis mental health services differently. The trust's consultation proposals are set out in Item 5 for 20 December 2005 below.

The trust's formal consultation period ran from November 2005 to March 2006 during which time the trust formally consulted with other stakeholders. As a parallel process the joint committee scrutinised of both (a) the trust's proposals and (b) the adequacy of its consultation with scrutiny and reported back to SLaM. A copy of the joint committee's final report and the trust's subsequent response to this can be found below.

The joint committee's decision on the proposals

Although the joint committee and the trust, together with the Primary Care Trusts for both boroughs, sought local resolution on the proposed options for providing crisis mental health services, the Joint Committee ultimately did not believe that the reconfiguration proposals were in the interest of local health services. Accordingly, in August 2006 the joint committee referred the matter to the Secretary of State for Health. You can read the joint committee's referral letter to the Secretary of State here.

The Secretary of State for Health's response and direction to the local health trusts

Subsequently, in January 2007 the Secretary of State for Health responded to the joint committee's referral, directing the local health trusts to implement SLAM's proposals for reconfiguration of mental health crisis services locally. You can read the Secretary of State for Health's response here.

Agendas, minutes and reports

The agendas for past and future meetings can be viewed and printed off from the table below. To view these documents you will need Adobe Acrobat.

If the report is not available here electronic format please contact the Scrutiny Team on 020 7525 7229 for a hard copy.

March 8 2007
Room 8, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, London SW2 1RW
Meeting summons, order of business and papers (1 Mb)
Item 4: Lambeth and Southwark Crisis Services Review Implementation Plan February 26 2007 (all background papers are included within the above document)

August 15 2006
Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, London SW2 1RW
Draft minutes (82.7 kb)
Meeting summons and order of business (170 kb)
Item 4: SLaM review of crisis mental health services - background report (30.4 kb)
Appendix A: Southwark and Lambeth Primary Care Trusts and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust out of hours crisis support model - proposals tabled at meeting (38.3 kb)

June 27 2006
Town Hall, Peckham Road, London SE5 9QJ
Minutes (138 kb)
Meeting summons and order of business (151 kb)
Item 4: amendments to joint committee terms of reference (51.7 kb)
Item 5: SLaM review of crisis mental health services - covering report (32.8 kb)
SLaM's response document [20 April 2006] (94.5 kb)
SLaM list of responses received to formal consultation proposals (54.4 kb)

SLAM's response of April 20 2006 to the joint committee's final report
SLaM covering letter to joint committee Chair Councillor Angie Meader (31.5 kb)
SLaM's response document [20 April 2006] (94.3 kb)
SLaM list of responses received to formal consultation proposals (51.8 kb)
Final report of the Joint Committee (439 kb)
Appendix A: Supporting documents
1 - Presentation "About SLaM NHS Trust", SLaM (1.09 mb)
2 - Presentation "Lambeth & Southwark Crisis Care Review", SLaM (81 kb)
3 - SLaM formal consultation document "Review of mental health crisis services in Lambeth & Southwark", SLaM, December 2005 (256 kb)
4 - Lambeth & Southwark mental health crisis care review: summary, SLaM (42.7 kb)
5 - SLaM Crisis Care review consultation plan (update circulated 8/2/06), SLaM (61.8 kb)
6 - Niemiec, S. Report on SLAM Mental Health Trust, 2005 (107 kb)
7 - SLAM Report from workshop "What counts as a good crisis service?", January 2005 (85.1 kb)
8 - Southwark MIND. Emergency Clinic: results of the Southwark MIND survey (93.4 kb)
9 - Healthcare Commission. Patient Survey Report SLAM Mental Health 2005 (77.1 kb)
10 - Department of Health. National Service Framework for Mental Health (403 kb)
11 - SLAM. Full report of psychiatric crisis services in Southwark & Lambeth (263 kb)
12 - SLAM. Summary report of two-week review of mental health crisis services in Southwark and Lambeth (118 kb)
13 - St Thomas' Hospital. Information from Mental Health Liaison Team including pathway for patient care: A&E presentations and EC stats (37 kb); breaches (19.5 kb); protocol for Police A&E presentations (25 kb)
14 - King's College Hospital. Briefing document for Joint Committee (35.5 kb) and patient pathway for A&E for patients with mental health problems (26 kb)
15 - Lambeth Primary Care Trust. Unscheduled Care Strategy in Lambeth briefing paper to Lambeth PCT Board, July 2005 (94 kb) membership of Urgent Care Network (27 kb)
16 - Southwark Primary Care Trust. Unscheduled Care, report to Southwark PCT Board, July 2005 (28 kb)
17 - SLAM Key Performance Indicator Report Quarter 1 April – June 2005 Quarter 2 Apr – Sept 2005 (334 kb)
18 - Mental Health Working Party of the Lambeth Community-Police Consultative Group. Submission to the Metropolitan Police Association Joint Review into mental health and policing (72 kb)
19 - Rethink - Do helplines help ? Research paper – summary (1.67 mb)
20 - Rethink - Crisis Services Research
21 - Rethink - Crisis Services Best Practice Briefing
22 - Rethink - Cedar House Crisis Accommodation
23 - Public written submissions (service users & user organisations): twelve submissions from individuals plus response from the Lorrimore signed by 18 people and from Lambeth Mental Health and Disabled Peoples Action Group (1.42 mb)
24 - Jane Sayer, Deputy Director Nursing, SLAM. Emergency Clinic and the Mental Health Act - briefing paper to SLAM Trust Board 29 November 2005 (97 kb)
25 - excerpt from Lambeth MIND Mental Health Directory 2006. Lambeth Mind Mental Health Act Briefing information
26 - Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust – Draft Response to SLAM
27 - Lambeth User Voice Service User Review Group. Statement to the 10 year review project Board and SLAM Board January 2004 (34 kb)
28 - Joint Committee. Service user workshop notes, 21 February 2006 (568 kb)
29 - SLAM staff consultation event 23 February 2006, scrutiny support officer notes (25.5 kb)
30 - Lambeth PCT. Report to Lambeth PCT Board 13 March 2006 (96 kb)
31 - Southwark MIND, Report from user consultation event 7 March 2006 (46 kb)
32 - Annual Report of Lambeth Director of Public Health [2004/05] available at http://www.lambethpct.nhs.uk/index.php?PID=0000000225
33 - Annual Report of Southwark Director of Public Health [2004/05] available at http://www.southwarkpct.nhs.uk/index.php?PID=0000000387

March 8 2006
Town Hall, Peckham Road, London SE5 8UB
Minutes (67.9 kb)
Meeting summons and order of business (169 kb)
Item 5: SLAM review of crisis mental health services - background report (26.4 kb)

February 21 2006
Wolfson Building, Institute of Psychiatry, 16 De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
N.B. from 7-8 pm there will be an informal session for service users/potential service users only. At 8 pm there will be a formal public meeting.
Minutes (109 kb)
Meeting summons and order of business (194 kb)
Item 4: SLAM review of crisis services - background report (25 kb)
Appendix A: SLAM formal consultation document, November 2005 (257 kb)

February 8 2006
Town Hall, Brixton Hill, London SW2 1RW
Minutes (616 kb)
Meeting summons and order of business (92.1 kb)
Item 4: SLAM review of crisis services - background report (33 kb)
Item 5: SLAM formal consultation plan (114 kb)
Item 6: Joint Committee draft work schedule (44.9 kb)

January 23 2006
King's College Hospital SE5
Minutes (108 kb)
Meeting summons and order of business ( 167 kb)
Item 4: SLAM review of crisis services - background report (34.1 kb)
Item 5: Additional SLAM consultation documents:
(a) Two week review of mental health crisis services in Southwark and Lambeth: brief report (118 kb)
(b) Report of psychiatric crisis in Southwark and Lambeth [SLAM in conjunction with Institute of Psychiatry] (263 kb)
Item 6: Joint Committee draft work schedule (44.9 kb)

December 20 2005
Southwark Town Hall, Peckham Road, London SE5 8UB
Minutes (99.6 kb)
Meeting summons and order of business (149 kb)
Item 4: Terms of reference for the joint committee - background report (17.5 kb)
draft terms of reference (34.4 kb)
Item 5: SLAM proposals for crisis mental health services - background report (28.2 kb)
Appendix A: SLAM formal consultation document, November 2005 (256 kb)
Appendix B: SLAM Crisis Services Review summary document (42.7 kb)
Appendix C: SLAM formal consultation plan/timetable (61.8 kb)
Appendix D: Report from Steve Niemiec (107 kb)
Appendix E: Report from January 2005 SLAM service user workshop (85.1 kb)
Appendix F: Southwark MIND user survey (93.4 kb)