To receive any petitions, deputations and questions received from Members of the Public in accordance with the provisions of Procedure Rule 217.

The total time allowed for this item shall be 30 minutes.  Petitions, declarations and questions shall be dealt with in the order in which they are received. 

Miss Narey confirmed that a question, in two parts, had been received from Mr Ramsay Ross. He was unable to attend the meeting, but his question had been added to the website and circulated to committee members in advance of the meeting.  A written response would be sent to Mr Ramsey and this would be included with the minutes of the meeting.

Question for Adults and Health Scrutiny Committee Meeting: 17 June 2021

Received from Mr Ramsay Ross

Context:

The January Minutes of the Health & Wellbeing Board state that the CCGs have an  absolute ambition to deliver a Rutland Plan and that they are committed to having consensus about what is important in the shaping of such a Plan.

Question, in two parts

How will the Rutland Adult & Health Scrutiny Committee execute its primary aim of strengthening the voice of local people, such that we can be assured that:

(i) our needs and experiences are considered as an integral part of the commissioning and delivery of health services; and

(ii) that a mechanism will exist to permit public recommendations for the improvement of existing services to be submitted for consideration

Response:

It was RESOLVED that a draft Place Led Plan be PRESENTED to the Adult and Health Scrutiny Committee on the 9th September 2021 before it was presented to the Rutland Health and Wellbeing Board on the 5th October 2021.

Deputation for Adults and Health Scrutiny Committee Meeting: 17 June 2021

A deputation was received from the Rutland Health and Social Care Policy Consortium and this was delivered by Mrs Reynolds.

Cllr Harvey thanked Mrs Reynolds for her deputation and asked Members if they had any questions regarding the deputation.  Cllr Cross confirmed his agreement with the deputation from Mrs Reynolds and the Rutland Health and Social Care Policy Consortium.  Cllr Waller enquired what the Consortium expected the Adults and Health Scrutiny Committee to do when the matter was being undertaken by the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Groups.  Mrs Reynolds confirmed that the Scrutiny Committee needed to be aware of issues raised by the Rutland community to ensure that the care services provided met the requirements of the local population.

The Chair stated that the Committee would examine the work plan to ensure that Rutland specific issues were addressed and that it would continue to monitor and scrutinise different aspects of the CCG’s work, as evidenced by items 9 and 10 on the agenda, as well as work in close collaboration with other stakeholders such as the Health and Wellbeing Board and Rutland Healthwatch to ensure that the voice of  residents was heard in such matters as community healthcare and integrated services.

Cllr Waller informed attendees that the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Joint Health Committee of which she and the Chair were both members, had been and would continue to look at the various issues around reconfiguration.

Cllr Cross proposed a discussion regarding the deputation subject matter and was reminded that questions could be asked but a discussion was prohibited (Part 4 of the Constitution, Procedure Rule 28)