Agenda item

5.1

Responses were provided to three questions asked by Deborah Cobbett on behalf of Sheffield Save Our NHS, as follows:-

5.2

With regard to the Urgent Care Review the Chair, Councillor Pat Midgley, advised that the meeting today would scrutinise the consultation process and the responses submitted. A Working Group would then meet to discuss and put together the Committee’s formal response to the proposals.

5.3

The Policy and Improvement Officer stated that a report from the South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Wakefield Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee would be coming to this Committee in due course regarding the Hospital Services Review. 

5.4

With regard to the public profile of scrutiny, the Chair acknowledged that public awareness of decision making in Local Government was low but advised that effort was being made by the Council to improve public engagement and partner agencies were encouraged to be more transparent and accessible.

5.5

The Policy and Improvement Officer advised that a report responding to a recent Select Committee publication regarding raising the profile of scrutiny was being considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee at their meeting next week, and undertook to send Ms Cobbett this report and the combined scrutiny work programme considered at Council last week.