Agenda item

4.1

The Committee received a report of the Policy and Improvement Officer which set out the Committee’s Work Programme for 2017/18.

4.2

The Policy and Improvement Officer took the Committee through the Work Programme, making reference to some of the items to be considered at the remaining meetings in the Municipal Year and the list of items to be scheduled.

4.3

The Chair, Councillor Pat Midgley, suggested that the item relating to the Health and Wellbeing Board be brought up the Programme and that the item on Emergency Preparedness be considered before the end of the Municipal Year.  She added that Urgent Care would be considered when the outcome of the consultation had been released.

4.4

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)       approves the contents of the Work Programme 2017/18, subject to the suggestions now reported; and

(b)       requests that:-

(i)         the Policy and Improvement Officer circulates information on the Health and Wellbeing Board to Committee members;

(ii)        the Policy and Improvement Officer investigates the issue of unnecessary repeat prescriptions to people in residential care homes and reports back to the Committee on her findings; and

(iii)       Committee Members with any further suggestions for the Work Programme 2017/18, send these by email to the Policy and Improvement Officer.