Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Noted (AI summary) The College has a new Standard Operating Procedure for all referrals received from external agencies. The Trust is developing an organisational approach to investigations as part of the nationally mandated work to implement the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and is commissioning a training programme that will provide attendees with enhanced skills in reviewing and learning from patient safety incidents; the Executive Director of Quality, Nursing and Health Professionals has also introduced new governance processes. The Trust's safeguarding leads have supported College leads in developing a more robust safeguarding policy for enrolees, provided additional learning sessions to college staff and volunteers, and have a rolling programme of support in place; Additionally, the Executive Director of Quality, Nursing and Health Professionals has introduced new governance processes including a Central Safety Summit with an approved scope and purpose agreed at Board level with reporting into the Trust’s Quality Committee for continuous oversight at a Non-Executive Director level. The Home Office is working with police forces to ensure improvements in effectiveness and efficiency of the system to manage sex offenders and prevent them from committing further harm, and is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Violence and Public Protection and Violence Against Women and Girls portfolios. The VKPP engages with forces and key partners to identify promising practice and share knowledge to shape future responses to serious crime that exploits vulnerability. HMPPS is developing a new Continuing Professional Development risk learning product to be piloted towards the end of this year before being launched from February 2025, and has identified SEEDS2 as a strategic learning priority for 2024-2025 with Probation Officers required to complete the learning by September 2025 as part of their Continuing Professional Development requirement. No actions or plans described.

Noted (AI summary) Tameside and Glossop CCG acknowledges the need to expand mental health support and is investing in additional services, but does not recognize a gap in provision for individuals with high levels of needs like Mr. Jennings as they consider them covered by existing secondary care services. They will follow up on the other concerns with Pennine Care Foundation Trust through quality and performance monitoring. The Department of Health acknowledges the concerns raised and refers to national policy expectations and guidance, including the Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice and the Global Digital Exemplar programme. It also mentions the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch's investigation into care for patients with mental health problems in emergency departments. NHS England notes the concerns and describes actions taken to address disparate IT systems (Global Digital Exemplar programme), joined-up discharge plans (national framework), and capturing when police bring in individuals (updated Emergency Department module in Lorenzo with mandatory data collection fields).