1. BOARD MEETING 30 November 2017 Chief Executive’s Report Nicola Lees, Chief Executive
Purpose of this Report:
To update Board members on national, regional and local issues, announcements relating to mental health, learning disability and community health services, and Chief Executive level discussions within the local health economy.
Recommendations
That the Board:
Notes the content of the Chief Executive’s report
Previous meetings/committees where the report has been considered: Executive Management Team
Risk issues identified for discussion: Board members will want to identify any risks emerging from the content of the paper, and how new issues and challenges across the NHS might affect BDCFT. Any emerging issues may be taken forward through individual discussions with Directors outside Board meetings or suggesting a future paper to the Board or its Committees.
Links to Strategic Drivers
This report underpins all four of the strategic drivers.
Publication under Freedom of Information Act:
This paper has been made available under the FOI Act.
Links to principal risks
There are no specific risk issues identified
CQC outcomes
This paper provides assurance in relation to the well-led framework

2. CEO News- what you need to know
Trust News
Local News
National News
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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
The Chairman of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Professor Michael Lugar, has resigned from his post in order to take up a senior executive role in the education sector in London. Read more..
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: A new Yorkshire centre which will improve the health and wellbeing of children and the elderly, as well as the safety of patients in hospitals and clinics, has taken another step forward with the submission of building plans for approval. The Wolfson Centre for Applied Healthcare is to be established at Bradford Royal Infirmary. Read more..
Airedale Wharfedale & Craven Clinical Commissioning Group: A three-month consultation has begun, about the future of community care services in Craven – including the future of Castleberg. Read more..
Bradford City & Districts Clinical Commissioning Group:
Over 100 volunteer members of patient participation groups across Bradford City and Districts attended a celebration at Kala Sangam last week to mark the contribution they make to improve health and care provided at GP surgeries.
Safeguarding Adults Annual Report is now available and can be downloaded here
Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Backing Bradford District Issue 5 – November 2017: Kersten England, CEO of Bradford Metropolitan District Council shares news, views and agendas. Read more..
Bradford wins prestigious lighting award. Read more
NHS Digital: Safeguarding Adults, Annual Report, England 2016/17provides details of how many safeguarding concerns were raised during the year, how many safeguarding enquiries2 were started and how many were completed within that year under Section 42 of the Care Act 20143
The Kings Fund
The Budget: is the government listening? Chris Ham, CEO of The Kings Fund says he can’t remember a government so unwilling to respond to pressures on services, and calls on the Chancellor to provide more funding before its too late.
NHS Clinical Commissioners
Of Primary Importance: commissioning mental health services in primary care
Congratulations to Dr Mahmood Khan and team from the psychiatric clinical team working hard to inspire a new generation of mental healthcare professionals and receiving brilliant feedback from medical students from the University of Leeds about their top-quality teaching and levels of support.
Well done to our complex care team for reaching the finals for the Nursing Times Awards. A great achievement! You can see more of their work here
At the end of November, Trust staff celebrated the official launch of our ACORN project. ACORN captures continuing professional development activity across our nursing, allied health professional, dental, medical and psychological services.
On 31 October, staff from the Trust celebrated their graduation from the Moving Forward development programme. The leadership programme has run for six months and has covered a number of areas including emotional intelligence, positive thinking along with some practical tools. Read more..
Our Allied Health Professionals along with AHP colleagues from across Airedale and Bradford, are hosting a conference on 29th November. Suzanne Raistrick, NHS England Chief Allied health Professional Officer will be the key note speaker at the event ‘AHPs into Action’
We had a great response to the launch of the 3 month pilot for the Four Seasons Café at LMH. Please come and visit for coffee and cake Weds – Fri, 9am – 4pm.

3. External Media Report – October 2017
The Trust has achieved three pieces of national media coverage this month in both the Asian Sunday and Mental Health Today. Other coverage comes from a feature about the ‘Your Future Your Health’ event, volunteers needed for Airedale Centre for Mental Health, winter health campaign starting with health visitors encouraging people to have their flu jab. Social media engagement is high this month generated by a recruitment campaign to support HR activity encouraging people to visit us at recruitment fairs in various locations and promoted the benefits of working for the Trust including sharing videos of staff talking about their roles, development opportunities, staff benefits and the Trust’s staff development programmes.
Objective
Monthly target
Annual target
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Average
Cumulative
Local Media 42 54 46 35 56 45 44 47
Regional Features 5 1 4
National coverage 8 3 2 7
Web bounce rate 62 59 61 63
Twitter engagement
600 (680 with campaign in month)
576
755
503
985
554
725
1077
739
Facebook engagement
680
1052
597
590
1222
687
533
871
793
YASA feature
YASA feature, Nursing Times, Asian Sunday, Nursing Standard
Mental Health Today, Nursing Standard
School nursing feature
Campaigns: Recruitment and winter. Mental Health Today blog and Asian Sunday
External communications focus
Q3 (Oct end Dec 2017)
Stay well this winter campaign (Oct-Dec)
World Mental Health Day (10 Oct) 
‘Your Future, Your Health’ schools event (Oct) 
Board meetings at different Trust sites (ongoing)
Graduate recruitment fairs campaign (Oct – Dec)
Allied health professional event and Carer’s Hub Skipton opening (29 Nov)
October coverage:
Gerry Armitage takes up position at Trust - Telegraph and Argus, Keighley News, Ilkley Gazette, Craven Herald, Wharfedale Observer.
Your Future Your Health event – feature with the Telegraph and Argus.
Winter campaign – flu – Telegraph and Argus and Keighley News.
Volunteers needed for Airedale Centre for Mental Health – Asian Sunday, Telegraph and Argus, Keighley News, Ilkley Gazette, Craven Herald, Wharfedale Observer.
Board meeting - Asian Sunday, Telegraph and Argus, Keighley News, Ilkley Gazette, Craven Herald, Wharfedale Observer.
Safer spaces one year on – Telegraph and Argus and BCB radio interview with Kelly Barker.
Nurses on the beat (special police officers) – Mental Health Today
Stress awareness day and MyWellbeing College – BCB radio interview with Naomi Holdsworth.

4. Other News - For Your Information
Trust News
Local News
The Kings Fund
What is happening to waiting times in the NHS? Chief Executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens, has warned that without extra funding the improvements made in reducing waiting times for patients over the past decade will be reversed and the waiting list for elective treatment could increase to 5 million people by 2021
The efficacy of public health spending: This briefing examines the spending, access and cost-effectiveness of four areas of public health spending in the UK.
Stopping the blame game around delayed transfers of care
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence
NICE recommends health and social care professionals help older people with learning disabilities live healthy and fulfilling lives as they age, including planning for life-changing event.
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Improving mental health support for young people in care. This resource aims to improve the emotional wellbeing and mental health support for young people who cannot be looked after by their birth families.
NHS Improvement
Flow of providers of community health services: good practice guidance. Good patient flow across health and social care systems is crucial for the NHS to run an effective and sustainable service. This report sets out nine measures that would help improve patient flow, which will lead to better clinical outcomes and increased capacity during the winter period. 
NHS England
The Falls and Fragility Fractures Pathway for older people defines the core components of an optimal service for people who have suffered a fall or are at risk of falls and fragility fractures.
Patient and public voice partners and chairs survey: The report outlines the findings of a 2016 survey, highlighting areas in which improvements could be made in the role of activity of patients and public voice partners.
Encouraging people to embrace self care for life: Engaging and empowering people to look after their own health better is the theme of this year’s self are week.
NHS Digital
Overall Patient Experience Scores: 2017 Community Mental health Survey update
Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics: Final August, Provisional for September 2017
Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services September 2017.
Safeguarding Adults Annual report
Health Education England (HEE)
Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England. This national framework sets out a vision for further development of advanced clinical practitioners.
Airedale Wharfedale & Craven Clinical Commissioning Group: A new strategy is being developed for commissioning (buying) GP services in our area – this is called the GP services commissioning strategy. The purpose of this strategy is to ensure the best health outcomes for patients. Read more..