Issue - meetings

Report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance.

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance seeking the views of the Committee on its Work Programme for the remainder of 2018/19; requesting the identification of potential topics for scrutiny reviews to be undertaken by any Working Group(s) appointed by the Committee; and identification of any items for pre-scrutiny by the Committee from the Key Decision Forward Plan.

A Work Programme for 2018/19 was set out at Appendix A to the report, to be considered, along with any additional items to be included and agreed.

Further to Minute No. 5 (3) of 26 June 2018, Fiona Taylor, Chief Officer for NHS South Sefton CCG and NHS Southport and Formby CCG, reported that she anticipated submitting the Primary Care Strategy to the next meeting of the Committee.

Further to Minute No.44 of 27 February 2018, the Chief Officer for NHS South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group reported that the merger between Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust was likely to take place in July 2019, and undertook to keep the Committee informed of developments. Representatives of the Trust could be invited to attend a future meeting to update the Committee.

The Committee was invited to consider any potential scrutiny review topics to be undertaken during 2018/19. The Committee would consider the matter further once the Primary Care Strategy had been submitted to the Committee.

Since the publication of the agenda for this meeting, a further Key Decision Forward Plan had been published and the latest Forward Plan containing the Key Decisions that fell under this Committee’s remit was circulated for the attention of the Committee. The Committee was invited to consider items for pre-scrutiny.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       the Work Programme for 2018/19, as set out in Appendix A to the report, be agreed;

(2)       the Primary Care Strategy be included as an agenda item for the next meeting of the Committee;

(3)       the appointment of any new Working Group(s) during 2018/19 be deferred, pending the submission of the Primary Care Strategy to the Committee; and

(4)       the contents of the Key Decision Forward Plans for the periods 1 September – 31 December 2018 and 1 October 2018 – 31 January 2019, be noted.