Issue - meetings

Report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance

Further to Minute No’s 57A and 57B of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Adult Social Care and Health) held on 21 March 2017, the Council considered the report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance regarding the Liverpool Orthopaedic and Trauma Service Feasibility Study and requesting the Council to formally determine whether the proposals submitted by the Healthy Liverpool Programme constituted a substantial variation in services or not.

The report indicated that there was a statutory requirement on providers of health services to consult local authority health overview and scrutiny committees on any proposals for significant development or substantial variation/reconfiguration in health services and details of the Protocol for the establishment of Joint Health Scrutiny Arrangements for Cheshire and Merseyside previously approved by the Council 3 June 2014 (Minute No. 20 refers) was appended to the report.

The report indicated that the Council had previously agreed on 25 September 2014 (Minute No. 42 (2) refers) that any final decision on substantial variations would be taken by the full Council.

It was moved by Councillor Page, seconded by Councillor Fairclough and

RESOLVED: That

(1)       it be noted that the Review of Orthopaedic Services proposed by the Healthy Liverpool Programme involves a major re-configuration of the orthopaedic services provided to Sefton residents;

(2)       the decision made by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Adult Social Care and Health) that the proposals constitute a substantial variation in services be endorsed; and

(3)       officers be authorised to submit a formal response to the consultation on the substantial reconfiguration proposals.