Minutes:
The Chair welcomed everyone to the first meeting of the Health Select Commission in the 2015/16 Municipal Year.
Information pack
In addition to the Agenda papers for the meeting, a separate information pack with other documents of interest to the Commission which may not need discussion in the meeting may be circulated. If any Member wanted to raise an issue or ask a question in relation to any of the papers in the pack they should be raised under Communications. It included information on the Health and Wellbeing Strategy which was being refreshed and would be on the July agenda.
GP Limited Liability Partnership (GP LLP)
All of the Rotherham GP practices (now reduced from 36 to 35 following a recent merger) had formed a GP LLP which was registered at Companies House. Currently the LLP was not conducting any business but possible future actions could be to benefit from economies of scale or as a means of attracting investment which had happened elsewhere.
Treeton Medical Practice
This was a long running issue with regard to securing new premises as the present surgery premises were too small for the practice which had a growing patient list and likely to increase substantially with new housing developments close by. Originally it had been hoped to have a new building near their present site but this had stalled. Discussions had now commenced with Howarth Estates regarding the medical centre the developer was building at Waverley. A business plan application form had been submitted to NHS England on 11th May, 2015. The practice has not had a response as yet.
Care Quality Commission Inspection of the Rotherham Foundation Trust
It was standard practice after a CQC inspection to hold a Quality Summit with the Hospital, Health commissioners and stakeholders to discuss the findings and improvement plans. This had been due to take place on 12th June but had been postponed with a new date to be agreed. The Chairman, Interim Director of Adult Social Care and Interim Strategic Director Children and Young People’s Services would be invited.
Joint Health and Overview Scrutiny Committee
(1) Representation
In keeping with previous years, the Select Commission was requested to consider representation on the JHOSC.
Resolved:- That Councillor Sansome and Councillor Mallinder (substitute) represent Rotherham on the Joint Health and Overview Scrutiny Committee.
(2) Yorkshire Ambulance Service
The Joint Health and Overview Scrutiny Committee, through Wakefield Council, was also being represented at the Care Quality Commission Quality Summit for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service on 15th June, 2015.
Health and Wellbeing Board
Councillor Roche, Advisory Cabinet Member, reported that a meeting had taken place with some of the key players to look at how the Board was going to run in the future, membership, agenda items, roles of the Chair and Vice-Chair and integration as much as possible. The Board would meet at various locations around the Borough and not in the Town Hall. A report would go to the Board’s July meeting following by a report to the Select Commission.
Councillor Roche reported that Alison Iliff, Public Health, had been awarded a British Heart Foundation Hero Award for her work in promoting Rotherham as a Heart Town.
The Board had also held a special meeting in May to discuss Rotherham’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan. The Plan had been agreed and would be sent to all the relevant partners.
It was also reported that central funding to local authorities for Smoking Cessation Services and Sexual Health Services was likely to be reduced.