Issue - meetings

The Board gave consideration to a report on the Council’s performance as at  January 2008 (Period 10).

RESOLVED:

(a)       that it be noted 74% of indicators were improving or stable at the period end, compared to 55% in period 9;

(b)       that it be noted that 85% of indicators were achieving their targets at the period end, compared to 73% in period 9;

(c)        that the successes in Section 3.5 of the report (examples of considerable or continued improvement over the period) be celebrated;

(d)       that the potential areas for concern set out in Section 3.6 of the report, together with the corrective action being taken, be noted; and

(e)       that, on the question of sickness absence (as referred to in Section 3.6 of the report), the Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development be requested to look further into a recently reported Government proposal which would allow General Practitioners to issue patients with “well notes” rather than sick notes, (i.e., setting out what  they were capable of undertaking rather what they were not), and that a report be brought back to the Board in this regard in due course.