Issue - meetings

To receive the report recommending the setting up of Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee to Consider North Central London Service and Organisation Review.

The Committee received the report on the setting up of a Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee to consider North Central London Services and Organisation Review. 

The Committee expressed concerns about committing to a Joint Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee review during a period of uncertainty due to the forthcoming local elections but agreed that the arrangements for the Joint Committee should be put in place but with the option of changing the Terms of Reference at a later stage.

RESOLVED

i.                    That the setting up of a joint health scrutiny overview and scrutiny committee with the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Islington and Enfield under the powers conferred by chapter 3 of the National Health Service Act 2006 and associated regulations be agreed to engage with the NHS on the North Central London Service and Organisation Review and respond, in due course, to the forthcoming formal consultation exercise thereon.  

ii.         That the Council be recommend to approve the terms of reference for the joint health overview and scrutiny committee.

iii.        That a further report inviting nominations to the JHOSC be submitted to the first meeting of the Committee of the new Municipal Year.

iv.        That officers be authorised to continue negotiations with other participating local authorities on the constitutional arrangements for the joint committee and associated matters and report back.