Agenda item

Report of the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer

The Committee considered the report of the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer that sought to review the Committee’s Work Programme for the remainder of the Municipal Year 2022/23;report on progress of the Mental Health Issues Working Group;report on progress of informal briefing sessions for Committee Members to be held during 2022/23;identify any items for pre-scrutiny by the Committee from the Key Decision Forward Plan;update on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee;report on progress made by the Joint Health Scrutiny Committee in considering proposals for the reconfiguration of the hyper-acute stroke services across North Merseyside and West Lancashire;report on progress made by the Joint Health Scrutiny Committee in considering proposals in relation to clinical service integration for a number of services delivered by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUFT); report on progress of the Joint Cheshire and Merseyside Scrutiny Committee, established to scrutinise the work of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board; and provide an update from Healthwatch Sefton.

Further to Minute No. 24 (2) and (3) above, consideration was given to the inclusion of the following items at future meetings of the Committee:

• Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust for general update;
• NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Place Plan;
• Update on primary care estate strategy; and
• a full report on the Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance to the next Committee meeting.

Members of the Committee asked questions/raised matters on the following issues:

• A future meeting with a representative of the North West Ambulance Service.
• Concerns raised by Healthwatch regarding GP access and on-line access in particular.

RESOLVED: That

(1)      the Work Programme for 2022/23, as set out in Appendix A to the report, be noted, along with any additional items to be included and thereon be agreed;

(2)      the following items be added to the Committee’s Work Programme for 2022/23:

• Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, for general update;
• NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Place Plan;
• update on primary care estate strategy;
• a full report on the Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance be submitted to the next Committee meeting;
• a future meeting with a representative of the North West Ambulance Service.
• an informal briefing with representatives of the local primary care networks regarding GP access and on-line access;

(3)      progress made to date on the recommendations made by the Mental Health Issues Working Group, be noted;

(4)      progress of informal briefing sessions for Committee Members to be held during 2022/23 be noted;

(5)      the contents of the Key Decision Forward Plan for the period 1 November 2022 to 28 February 2023 be noted;

(6)      the update on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee be noted;

(7)      the progress made on the Joint Health Scrutiny Committee (Hyper-Acute Services), be noted;

(8)      the progress made on the Joint Health Scrutiny Committee – Liverpool University Hospitals University Foundation Trust (LUFT), be noted;

(9)      the progress of the Joint Cheshire and Merseyside Scrutiny Committee, established to scrutinise the work of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board, be noted; and

(10)    the recent activities undertaken by Healthwatch Sefton, as outlined in Appendix D to the report, be noted.