Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

The Sub Committee received a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services regarding recent national developments and their impact on how local authorities exercised their health overview and scrutiny functions. The City of London Corporation was now a commissioner and provider of public health services and therefore a body which could be scrutinised, and Members considered whether the Sub Committee should examine how or if its own health scrutiny functions could be enhanced. The Chairman requested that minutes of the Board meetings of Barts Health NHS Trust and Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust be forwarded to Sub Committee wherever possible. Members agreed that, at the next meeting, Members undertake a discussion of the current position of health scrutiny processes in the City, supported by officers’ research of best practice elsewhere.

RESOLVED – That:

(a)  The report be noted;

(b)  The Health and Social Care Scrutiny Sub Committee examine how or if its health scrutiny processes could be enhanced in line with the approach proposed in the report at its next meeting in February 2015; and

(c)  The minutes of the Board meetings of Barts Health NHS Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust, and Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust be forwarded to Sub Committee wherever possible.