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Never Too Old Action Team
The County Borough of Bridgend has a long established Joint Strategy Planning Team for Older People where there are representatives from health, social care, voluntary / community and service users groups. This group reports to the Health Social Care and Well Being Partnership Board and was responsible for delivering the action plan associated with the Never Too Old Strategy 2002-2007. With the current publication of guidance from the Welsh Assembly Government in respect of older people, the joint planning team chose in 2006 to review its work and its stakeholder involvements and the ability for everyone to participate in the processes. Therefore in July 2006 an older people’s development day was held in partnership with groups representing older people and those interested in services for older people. The day was held with support from the Welsh Assembly Government and Wales Institute for Health and Social Care. The outcome of the day has been to propose a more dynamic planning arrangement for carrying forward the action plans for the NSF for Older People in Wales and the National Strategy for Older People in Wales.
For older people, the Bridgend Partnership has established a Never Too Old Action Team, out of which there will be two work streams. One of which will consider the health and social care needs of older people and the other will consider the wider issues that have direct implications upon health and social care such as their well-being and social inclusion. These two work streams have priorities to work to, and will engage stakeholders in task and finish groups to deliver on the objectives of the relevant action plans for older people. The progress from the health and social care works stream continue to report to the partnership board; and the well-being and social inclusion issues will be reported directly to the Local Strategic Partnership. In this way we are striving to ensure the voice and views of older people are heard across the whole community of Bridgend.
Never Too Old Action Team Membership
The membership is made up of representatives from Bridgend County Borough Council (BCBC), Bridgend Local Health Board(BLHB), Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust, voluntary and community sector, SHOUT and Carers.
The current membership is
Christine Court MBE – BLHB Champion for Older People (Chairperson)
Susan Cooper - BCBC Head of Adult Social Care
Roxane Darcy – H+SC Facilitator – BAVO
Hedly Davies – Carers Representative
Carmel Donovan – Group manager Adult Services
Vicki Franklin – Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust – Nurse Director
Sara Forster – Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust - Head of Occupational Therapy
Carrie Galbraith - SHOUT
Cllr Cllr Lyn Morgan– BCBC Champion for Older People
Des Rees– County SHOUT Chairman
Rachel Rowlands – Voluntary Sector Representative – Age Concern Morgannwg
Rena Sweeney – Voluntary Sector Representative – Bridgend County Care and Repair
Zoe Wallace – BLHB Head of Strategic Planning and Partnership
Catherine Webb / Ann Davies– Bridgend NPHS
Paul Wood – Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust – Champion for Older People
Minutes
1 Minutes of previous meeting 9th January 2009
2 Minutes of Previous meeting 10th march 2009
3 Minutes of previous meeting 19th May 2009
Reference Docs
1 Terms of reference
2 Structure Diagram
3 Annual Audit of Progress
4 Annual Strategy for Older People Report
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