Agenda item

7.1

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Public Health concerning a proposal for the Governance Committee to sponsor a Task and Finish Group to consider appropriate membership of the forum that considers joint City Council and NHS commissioning and planning through a pooled budget under Section 75 of the NHS Act 2006.

7.2

Joe Horobin, the Director of Integrated Commissioning, presented the report to the Committee. She confirmed that any proposed forum, would have a broad and cross cutting remit.

7.3

The Task and Finish group would be tasked with looking at the recognition of the new forum within the Council’s governance arrangements; membership of the forum; and arrangements to ensure the forum supported effective democratic decision making. Based on those deliberations, the Task and Finish Group would develop a proposal for full Council to consider.

7.4

Members of the Committee commented upon the proposals in the report of the Director of Public Health, as follows:

7.4.1

A forum should recognise cross party interaction with the NHS.

7.4.2

A forum should help to bring community voice into services beyond the remit of one Policy Committee.

7.4.3

The Terms of Reference and activity of the Task and Finish Group might also embed priorities for locality spending and environmental and sustainability considerations.

7.5

In response, the Director of Integrated Commissioning said that part of the discussions concerned planning at a place and neighbourhood level and clarified that the work of the task and finish group might result in a forum which was not a committee but an appropriate body which supported the Council’s ongoing relationship with the NHS.

7.6

The Chair (Councillor Fran Belbin) suggested that the Terms of Reference, as set out in paragraph 3 of the report, be agreed as submitted; and that the importance of locality and climate and nature emergency considerations, as highlighted by the Committee, be included in future discussions of the Task and Finish group.

7.7

RESOLVED: That having considered the matter, the Committee:

(a)      agrees the proposed scope, and Terms of Reference of the Task and Finish Group to review governance arrangements to support partnership working with NHS Sheffield;

(b)      agrees Elected Member representation for that Task and Finish Group from across the three political groups, as follows: Councillors Sue Alston, Angela Argenzio, Penny Baker, Fran Belbin, Ruth Milsom and Paul Turpin; and

(c)      agrees to receive a proposal for consideration from the Task and Finish Group at its meeting in February 2024.