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Responding to the NHS and Public Health white papers - Pre-Decision Scrutiny

 

 

Meeting: 16/03/2011 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 209)

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To consider the report addressing Haringey’s response to the White Papers: Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS; and Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our Strategy for Public Health in England.

Minutes:

The Committee received the briefing and Powerpoint presentation on Haringey’s response to the changes set out in the NHS White Papers, introduced by Jeanelle De Gruchy, Director of Public Health.  


Ms De Gruchy recognised the Committee’s concerns about the lack of clarity of funding for public health and highlighted that consultation was taking place around the Public Health Outcomes Framework.  The Chair would write to the Joint Director of Public Health emphasising the Committee’s long-standing concerns about health inequalities and funding for health services and the Borough’s particularly deprived areas (Action 209.2).

 

The Chair would circulate the Council’s Constitution amendment relevant to Health Scrutiny (Action 209.3).

 

RESOLVED to note the briefing and presentation.