Issue - meetings

To consider any new items of urgent business admitted at item 4 above.

In response to the previously raised matter, Richard Gourlay, North Middlesex University Hospital Trust, asked that this matter be on agenda on the agenda for the next Health and Wellbeing Board, to give the new Chief Executive the opportunity to talk though the benefits of the new appointment.

Sharon Grant stated that the issue concerned the matter of the value on consulting patients and public on these decisions. She stated that there had been major consultations over the last few years, where the opinions had been taken into consideration and written up, however there had been no consultation prior to this change being made. She was concerned that people may be less inclined to participate in future consultations if their views were not taken into consideration. 

The Chair also recognised that if the views of the public and relevant stakeholders were routinely ignored it did not encourage trust.