Issue - meetings

To review the current Work Programme (attached).

 The Committee considered the Work Programme, which had been updated following the last meeting to include items on health and wellbeing of carers, future healthcare provision in the Knutsford area and suicide prevention.  It was noted that the Task/Finish Group set up by Children and Families Scrutiny Committee to look at health and Cared for Children had now held its first meeting; this Group included two Members from this Committee. 

In relation to the item on North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), it was agreed to contact NWAS to see if they could provide written information on Care Bundles to the next meeting, otherwise they would report back in around 6 months on all issues identified earlier in the meeting.

The Annual Public Health report would be submitted as an annual item around January.    The item on Health Inequalities would be moved back to March 2012 after the Committee had considered the Annual Public Health Report.

The Committee considered prioritising the 3 new items:

      Health and wellbeing of carers and service users - it was reported that work was being carried out by Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee on the Carers Strategy, which would include regular monitoring; the Scrutiny responsibility for carers lay with Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee.  It was also relevant to note that a public consultation was underway on “Improvements to Adult Social Care Services” and public meetings were to be held during November.  The Committee had been updated earlier on initial proposals for future health and social care provision in Knutsford. It was therefore proposed that, in view of work already underway elsewhere at the moment and because scrutiny of carers lay with Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee, this item should remain on the work programme but no action be taken at present but it be revisited in 9 months to check on progress;

      In relation to the proposals around future healthcare in Knutsford, the Committee had earlier in the meeting considered a report on initial proposals and would be kept updated as the project progressed;

      In relation to the item on suicide prevention, the Committee requested a report to the next meeting on the main issues in order to consider the merit of undertaking some specific scrutiny work.

RESOLVED: That the Work Programme be updated as set out above and a report be submitted to the next meeting on suicide.