Issue - meetings

Nadine Nolan from Bury CCG will report at the meeting.

Dave McCann, Bury Clinical Commissioning Group Governing Body Lay Member - Patient and Public Involvement and Chair of Bury’s Patients’ Cabinet attended the Youth Cabinet to explain his role within the Patient Cabinet and as a Lay member of the CCG Governing Body.

Dave explained that the Patient Cabinet is representative of the borough in relation to ethnicity, gender, disability and health needs and captures all geographical areas in Bury.

The Patient Cabinet receives information from various groups and organisations and passes this on to the Clinical Commissioning Group. This advises on what the needs of the borough are.

Dave explained that there was currently no communication with youth groups and this was a big information gap.

The Patients’ Cabinet would like to bring health related topics to the Youth Cabinet for input and for the Youth Cabinet to represent the youth of the Town.

It was suggested that the Youth Cabinet Members could discuss issues with their peers at school and then feedback at Youth Cabinet Meetings. If an issue was felt to be particularly relevant to young people the Youth Cabinet could ask for a consultation in schools to be carried out.

Those present were given the opportunity to ask questions and make comments and the following points were raised:-

·         The Youth Cabinet should be informed of what topics/consultations were due to be brought to the meetings so that they could consult with their schools beforehand.

·         It was asked whether the Patient Cabinet had undertaken any work involving CAMHS?

Dave explained that CAMHS was a service that the Patient Cabinet had worked on. Mental health was reviewed annually and it was definitely something that Youth Cabinet could look at.

·         Councillor Cathcart stated that it was a good time for the Youth Cabinet to be given the opportunity to be involved the consultation of health reforms to services. There were lots of services under review which young people should have a say in.

·         Councillor Cathcart asked that consultation documents for Youth Cabinet are young person friendly as the use of acronyms is very popular especially in health documents.

Heather explained that the Youth Cabinet had been asked to Youthproof documents and publications in the past and would be more than willing to undertake this again if needed.

Dave explained that the CCG had a communications team that worked on making sure that all documents were user friendly across age groups, language and disabilities.

·         It was asked whether sexual health issues could be discussed.

Dave reported that services available in relation to sexual health should be discussed as there are many services available that people may not know about. Signposting services was something that the CCG are keen to do.

It was agreed:-

1.    That the Youth Cabinet would welcome the opportunity to become the voice of young people across the borough in relation to health services and future provision.

2.    That Dave McCann be thanked for his attendance at the Youth Cabinet Meeting.