Issue - meetings

To review the current Work Programme (attached).

The Committee reviewed its current work programme:

      North West Ambulance Service – following the earlier presentation where the new 111 call system was referred to, the Committee discussed having further information on the new system and inviting the Programme Director to attend a future meeting;

      Diabetes/Obesity – update to the September meeting;

      Annual Public Health Report – presentation to the July meeting;

      Alcohol Services – update to the September meeting;

      Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy – report to the July meeting;

      Local Involvement Network – presentation to the July meeting on the Annual Report and current Work Programme;

      Update on Mental Health and Learning Disability – a Workshop to be held on provision of mental health and learning disability services in Cheshire East;

      Lifestyle – to future meeting;

      Health and Wellbeing of carers and service users in Cheshire East – noted that Adult Services Scrutiny Committee would be receiving an update to the meeting on 5 July;

      Suicide prevention – to be covered as part of the workshop on mental health; noted that Child and Adolescent Mental Health services is being covered by Children and Families Scrutiny Committee.

The Committee also received a request from Councillor A Moran that some scrutiny work be undertaken on prostate cancer treatment and detection via screening.  He said around 35 thousand men were diagnosed with prostate cancer each year and a high number of these would die.  A simple test could help with detection and he referred to an event at Nantwich Football Club where 500 men took the test.  There was no national screening programme and no specialist clinician at Leighton Hospital.  The local support group had provided a lot of equipment.

The Committee also discussed undertaking some Scrutiny work on Immunisation Services.  The Chairman had a guide from the Centre for Public Scrutiny that outlined a lifetime’s programme of immunisations along with questions for scrutiny to ask when undertaking a review of the topic.  The Portfolio Holder explained that she had asked one of the Associate Directors of Public Health to provide some information on immunisation uptake in the Borough.

RESOLVED: that

(a) the Work Programme be updated in accordance with the views outlined at the meeting;

(b) a Scoping Report on Screening and Treatment for Prostate Cancer be prepared;

(c) a report on Immunisations be submitted to a future meeting.