Agenda item

The draft report on the review is attached.

10.1  The chair  invited the committee to comment on the final report circulated with the agenda. The vice chair remarked that the recommendations looked good. He went on to comment on the committee’s capacity to adequately deliver on its responsibilities to take an overview and undertake in-depth scrutiny reviews. There was a discussion about whether scrutiny is better placed to look in detail at issues or take a wider look at the health system. A member commented that it has been hard to make comment on what are still draft reports on Mental Health strategies for the CCG, and other partners, and that over the course of the meeting various plans were referred to, but not seen. A member agreed that there was a virtue in raising issue of concern, however there was a need to take a proper look at Mental Health, which has been a theme for a while. A member returned to the issue of capacity and resources and suggested the committee needed to either nail down the issue or raise a red flag.

RESOLVED

The report was agreed and will be sent to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Monday.

It was recommended that the next committee take a further look at Mental Health, and as part of that consider BME communities.