Partnership Meetings and Minutes

Contents

• Trustee's Meeting minutes
• Focus Group Meeting minutes
• Other Committee Meeting minutes

Trustees meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at the Community & Resource Centre, from 7pm to 9pm. These meetings are open to Members and to the general public. They are also attended as required by representatives of local statutory bodies such as the police, Rotherham M.B.C., the Health service, etc.

Note that Trustees meeting minutes are only published on this website after they have been approved by the Trustees as an accurate record of events. For this reason the minutes will normally become available only after the following month's meeting.

Minutes of the most recent public meetings involving the Partnership are shown below. Alternatively you can download these and the minutes of earlier meetings from the downloads page, Where these documents are available in Adobe Portable Document (.PDF) format, for which free reader software can be obtained from a link on the same page.

Trustees Meetings

Minutes for Trustees meeting at 7pm On Tuesday 20th February 2007 in the Community & Resource Centre

Attendance: Gordon Payne (Chair), Andrea Beckingham (Trustee), Robin Carter (Trustee), Kevin Atkins (Trustee), Catherine Cooper (Finance & Admin Officer), Nic Marshall (Development Manager), Richard Bland (Sustainability Officer), Sarah Gibbs (Trustee), Eric Haycox (Trustee), Trevor Ledger (Treeton Medical Centre), Clive Morgan (member) Caroline Simpson (PCT).

606 Apologies

Reg Littleboy (Trustee), Mick Fellowes (Community Capacity Worker), Chris Edwards (member).

607 Minutes of the meeting 16th January 2007.

It was agreed that these were a true record.

608 Matters Arising

There were no matters arising that were not already covered on the agenda.

609 Correspondence

Nic stated we had received an email from Jackie Mould wishing us the best for the future.

610 Medical Centre:- Presentation of results of Patient Survey

On behalf of Treeton Medical Centre, Trevor Ledger presented the results of the Patient Satisfaction Survey, (which the Practice had undertaken in September 2006), to the Trustees and members, (several of whom are patients of the practice).

Trevor explained how the survey had been organised and then talked through the main findings of the survey and gave a comparison of the Practice's achievement with the previous year and also with the General Practice Assessment Questionnaire (GPAQ) benchmarks for patient satisfaction among other participating practices, where appropriate.

The results of both years' surveys are remarkably similar on many of the indicators. The most improved results were seen in the responses to questions about the doctors? consultations.

Satisfaction with receptionists: The practice has registered a 3% improvement in satisfaction with Receptionists. The Practice's mean score was also 3% better than the GPAQ benchmark - a pleasing result for surgery staff.

Trevor talked through some of the areas that the Practice has decided to focus upon in order to make improvements in future scores. These were as follows:

Access to GPs - these scores had fallen slightly on the previous year. The Practice is to continue to publicise the services which the Nurse Practitioner can provide for minor ailments in order to free up more doctors' appointments.

Waiting time at the practice: Satisfaction with waiting times had improved by 1% on the previous year and is 7% better than the GPAQ benchmark. The Practice has also observed that a significant number of patients arrive very early for their appointments, particularly those who travel by bus. The Trustees suggested that the Practice could recommend a change to the way the survey question is worded in order to ask "how long were you waiting after the time of your appointment".

Telephone access to the practice: Results were again almost identical to last year's.

Trevor told the meeting that the Practice Reception team is working trying to improve its performance in this area.

Speaking to Doctor on phone for advice, again broadly similar to the previous year. The Practice is going to publicise this facility more widely through its website and, in response to a suggestion made at the meeting, in the March issue of Treeton Community News.

At the end of the presentation, Trustees were invited to ask questions about the survey, which were answered by Trevor.

611 Rotherham Local Development Framework

Gordon stated the new consultation documents were available to look at and developments around the area would have a major impact on Treeton.

A decision has been made to allow some development with some restrictions. On the Waverley site the advanced manufacturing park is already being developed, a commercial development is at the planning stages and the final stage will be housing and green spaces.

Concerns were raised as to impacts of pollution from increased traffic with new housing, industrial services and also the YES project coming to the area. Any comments on the documents need to be sent in by the end of March.

612 Manager's Report

612a It was agreed that Andrea, Robin and Gordon would do the interviews.

612b Partnership News will go out the first week in March.

612c The TP Trading website is now up and running thanks to Kevin.

612d TP Trading's launch will be held on Saturday 24th February and everyone is invited to attend.

612e The Community & Resource Centre now has a resources room with a wide range of reference books that anyone can come into the centre and use whilst they are here. The Village Association will be having their AGM on Tuesday 27th March at 8pm. Everyone is invited to attend and find out what?s happening with the Centre.

612f Treeton Torture leaflets have been distributed around the village thanks to Gordon and Chris.

612g A number of people had asked about the Autism Centre, Nic had been in touch with the PR company who had originally been out to discuss the site. They advised that Autism UK had been taken over in the Summer of 2006 and were no longer working with Eden PR and they were not currently offering any information as to what or when something would be built.

612h It was confirmed that Haywood & Co would continue to audit our accounts.

Focus Group Meetings

The following minutes are currently available in Portable Document Format (PDF) from the downloads page.

Business Focus Group Minutes, June 2005
Sustainability meeting, Jan 2005
Capacity Focus Group Minutes, Jan 2005
Transport (railways) meeting minutes, November 2004
Capacity Focus Group Minutes, Nov 2004
Business 'Brunch' meeting minutes, August 2004
T-BAG (Treeton Broadband Action Group) Minutes 15, 22 July 2004 & 11 August 2004
Environment & Health Focus Group Minutes, June 2004
Business Breakfast meeting minutes, June 2004
Environment & Health Focus Group Minutes, June 2004
Business Breakfast meeting minutes, May 2004
Partnership AGM Minutes, May 2004
Capacity Focus Group Minutes, May 2004
Business Focus Group Minutes, April 2004
Environment & Health Focus Group Minutes, April 2004
Capacity Focus Group Minutes, March 2004
Environment & Health Focus Group Minutes, March 2004
Capacity Focus Group Minutes, February 2004
Environment & Health Focus Group Minutes, February 2004
Capacity Focus Group Minutes, January 2004
Environment & Health Focus Group Minutes, January 2004
Capacity Focus Group Minutes, December 2003

Other Committee Meetings

The following minutes are currently available in Portable Document Format (PDF) from the downloads page.

Minutes of Treeton Environment Sub-Committee meeting held at 1.30pm on Friday 16th February 2007 in the Community & Resource Centre

Attendance: Robin Carter (Chair), Gordon Payne (Trustee), Nic Marshall (Development Manager), Catherine Cooper (Finance & Admin Officer), Joan Frost (member), Derek Walker (member).

1. Apologies: Jackie Gill (member).

2. Minutes of meeting on 19th January 2007.

The minutes were accepted as a true record.

3. Matters Arising

Treeton Torture leaflets had been distributed round most of the village thanks to Gordon & Chris.

Nic had agreed to enquire about the Autism Care Centre at the last meeting; he contacted Eden PR who had previously been in contact with us. The development changed hands in the summer of 2006 and Eden PR are no longer being used: the new company are not currently discussing the site.

Robin had spoken to a worker who was taking down poles near the boat club, he stated that they were burying cables.

4. Reports from groups/projects

The launch of TP Wood Recycling is on Saturday 24th February and it is hoped we will be able to make contacts with the press at the event. There were suggestions of possible partners/ contacts for the enterprise.

5. Future Projects

A number of projects were discussed and it was agreed that we would wait and see what comes out of the new area / parish plan which is currently being developed.

6. Date of next meeting

The next meeting will be Friday 16th March 2007 at 1.30pm.

7. A.O.B.

Gordon mentioned the Rotherham Development Plan which is the new plan for the area to cover the period to 2021. The current statistics estimate that there will be a requirement for 19.5 thousand new homes within this time.

Joan suggested that whilst the council were working on Long Lane it would be a good idea to clear the edging at the side of the road to make it more passable.

Minutes of previous meetings are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) from the downloads page.