Further to Minute No. 73 of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Health and Social Care) held on 6 May 2014, the Council considered the report of the Director of Corporate Services requesting approval to the draft protocol attached to the report which had been produced in response to the possible establishment of joint health scrutiny arrangements for Cheshire and Merseyside. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust was anticipated to formally consult all local health overview and scrutiny committees across Cheshire and Merseyside in due course, as to whether they considered the proposals the Trust was developing constituted a substantial variation in services. The relevant legislation stated that where such a proposal impacted on more than one local area, a joint overview and scrutiny committee must be appointed for the purposes of the consultation. In anticipation of this impending possibility, scrutiny officers across the region had produced the protocol setting out arrangements for how such a joint overview and scrutiny committee might operate in practice.
It was moved by Councillor Page, seconded by Councillor John Joseph Kelly and
RESOLVED:
That the Protocol for the establishment of Joint Health Scrutiny Arrangements for Cheshire and Merseyside as set out in the report be approved.