Issue - meetings
Overview and Scrutiny Board Work Programme
Meeting: 18/06/2012 - Overview and Scrutiny Board (Item 13)
13 Overview and Scrutiny Board Work Programme 
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Minutes:
The Board noted that the Work Programme included a number of items carried over from the previous municipal year, together with regular standing items. The Chairman invited Members to consider bringing forward any topics that would be suitable for the Board to investigate, for discussion at the Board meeting to be held on 16th July 2012.
Members discussed the potential future models of county hospital care, as part of the Joint Services Review, which had recently been announced and in particular the proposed closure of the Accident and Emergency department at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, which would have an impact on residents of the District. The Board’s representative on the Worcestershire County Council Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (HOSC), Councillor Dr. B. T. Cooper, provided full details at Minute No. 14/12. The Board considered whether this was an appropriate topic for external scrutiny and whether a presentation on the future model options and a progress report was required, together with an updated report when a decision has been made by the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust on which model it will implement.
RESOLVED:
(a) that the Democratic Services Officer distribute a blank topic proposal form for completion by Members if required and for such forms to be considered at the Board meeting to be held on 16th July 2012;
(b) that Officers invite a representative of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust to attend the Board meeting to be held on 16th July 2012 to give a presentation on the future models of county hospital care; and
(c) that a report on the disposal of stock and any claw back clause still in existence through BDHT be timetabled into the Board’s Work Programme.