Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Health Scrutiny Committee.

In 2008/09 the Health Scrutiny Committee undertook a review of Psychological Therapies prior to the implementation and roll out of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), a Government initiative to expand access to psychological therapies for those with anxiety and depression. Many of the recommendations made in the initial Review have been implemented subsequently by various organisations in the wider Stockport health economy. By 2012, the Health Scrutiny Committee considered it was appropriate to revisit some of the issues highlighted in the original Review.

This report sets out the finding of the latest Review and makes a series of recommendations to a number of public sector bodies, including the Council, Clinical Commissioning Group and GMP.

The Executive Meeting is invited to receive the report and request that a response be prepared to those recommendations that fall within the remit of the Council.

Officer contact: Jonathan Vali, 0161 474 3201, jonathan.vali@stockport.gov.uk

The Chair of the Health Scrutiny Committee (Councillor Tom McGee) attended the meeting to present the Committee’s final report of their Scrutiny Review “No Health Without Mental Health: the Stockport Way” (copies of which had been circulated).

RESOLVED – (1) That the Corporate Director for People be requested to prepare a response to the “No Health Without Mental Health: the Stockport Way” Scrutiny Review and those recommendations contained therein which were within the remit of the Council for consideration by the Executive Meeting.

(2) That the gratitude of the Executive be recorded for the excellent work undertaken by the Health Scrutiny Committee and others involved in the “No Health Without Mental Health: the Stockport Way” Scrutiny Review.