Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services

Members considered a list of potential future topics for discussion by the committee and added the following suggestions:

·       The Long Term Plan submission of the North East London Sustainable Transformation Partnership.

·       An issues paper considering the impact of promoting the right to choose/patients charter/patients first approach to City workers.  In the case of City workers, appointments close to their place of work were likely to be more convenient.  There was an argument presented in that this could put considerable pressure on the Royal London and Homerton.

·       An examination of the discharge protocols from, and the rate of call backs to, Intensive Care Units (ICU’s) that might be under financial pressure to release patients too soon.  Members note that, 15 days after discharge, a patient was treated as a ‘new condition’, if re-admitted.  The Chairman and Members agreed that this topic was very worthy of further scrutiny. 

Further topics for inclusion in October’s agenda:

·       Barts air quality – as discussed earlier on this agenda

·       Adult Safeguarding Annual Report

Suggested for a future agenda:

·       personalised budgets in Social Care

·       assurance that the NHS bodies were meeting their statutory duty to consult the local health Overview and Scrutiny Committee on substantial developments in, or variations to, the health service in the Authority’s area.