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• (Attachment: 1)Minutes

RESOLVED that the Minutes of the meeting held on 17 September 2015 be approved as a correct record.

Committee Members: Councillors B.A. Stead, R. S. Mantle (substituted by J. Paul), Mrs. D.A. Ross-Tomlin, and D. Powell (substituted by Mrs R. Turner).

Other Members: Councillor D.J. Pay.
 

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The Committee received a presentation from Cllr Dr Lynne Hack, Executive Member for Health & Ageing Well, which focused on the work being undertaken by the Council to support the emerging health agenda, and to deliver against its Health and Ageing Well Action Plans.

Questions and comments related to:

• The Council’s use of the Personalisation, Prevention and Partnership Fund (PPPF);
• Support for mental health, including through the Council’s Community Centres contract with specialist operators Staywell;
• Promotion of the R&Be Active programme;
• Methods for measuring the success of programmes such as R&Be Active and Living & Ageing Well Week;
• The contributions of the Family Support Team, including towards reducing rates of teenage conception.

The Committee congratulated the Member and Officer team on their strong progress to date in delivering against the Action Plans.

RESOLVED that that the Executive Member for Health & Ageing Well be thanked for briefing the Committee and responding to questions.
 

The Chairman welcomed representatives from Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Daniel Elkeles (Chief Executive) and Tim Hamilton (Director of Communications), and from Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Paul Simpson (Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer), to the meeting.

The Committee received a presentation from each Trust, which focused on recent performance, successes, current challenges faced, and strategies for improvement. The presentation from Epsom & St Helier included particular reference to their ongoing engagement with key stakeholders and the public with regard to a full estates review.

The Committee had received three advanced questions, and these were also addressed within the presentations.

The Committee welcomed the presentations, with further questions and discussion centring on:

• Vacancies and recruitment challenges, including difficulties in providing accommodation for key workers, and new emerging thinking about nurse training;
• Sustained recent growth in emergency activity, future population projections, and related bed occupancy requirements – discussion focused on opportunities for greater joint working between agencies to ensure an efficient flow of patients through the hospital and wider healthcare system, and to allow people to be cared for in the community wherever possible; 

RESOLVED that Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust be thanked for their presentations and for responding to the Committee’s questions.
 

It was reported that there were no items arising from the Executive that might be subject to the ‘call-in’ procedure in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 15 of the Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules.

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