Swansea Bay University Health Board

Noted (AI summary) The Trust details existing processes for prioritising calls and rapid handover of patients, and offers a meeting to discuss their response and commitment to improvement. Swansea Bay University Health Board outlined existing plans to reduce delays within acute unscheduled care pathways, including reducing bed numbers and improving flow, implementation of a frailty assessment unit and SDEC, and providing alternative pathways for patients presenting to the Emergency Department. The Welsh Government notes that the Health Board and Ambulance Service will respond separately and summarises pressures on urgent and emergency care services in Wales, as well as the actions being taken to address them including '50 day challenge' and escalation of Swansea Bay University Health Board to level 4.

Noted (AI summary) HMP & YOI Parc has provided notice to offender managers to notify the relevant Community Offender Manager when a prisoner is being released at sentence end date and will be of no fixed abode, including providing information relating to a prisoner’s intentions in terms of where they are going on the day of release. G4S will continue to streamline its own data recording, to ensure as much information as possible is shared through the primary national prisons IT system, DPS. West Midlands Police have updated their systems with prompts to improve the identification of those at increased risk and will work with MAPPA partners to ensure the coordinator role and new policy are understood and cascaded to relevant staff. BSMHFT will develop a sustainable engagement strategy with MAPPA, review the Prison Discharge Coordinator's role, and explore amendments to the Systemone interface in HMP Birmingham to record community mental health team involvement, anticipating a decision within a month. The health board acknowledges the concerns raised in the report but states that it has no jurisdiction/power over the actions required for some of the concerns. However, it has alerted the MAPPA Coordinator to the concern regarding release of high-risk prisoners and will participate in Strategic Management Board discussions. West Midlands Probation Service is working with NHS-England Reconnect Service to ensure Probation Practitioners are aware of how to refer into this service in Prison for support “through the gate”, the transition period from prison into the community. West Midlands Probation Service will work with the Health Trust to support any Guidance revisions undertaken by the Health Trust to ensure that the Guidance is clear and enables effective information sharing and can be embedded within and understood by all in the Probation Service.