July meeting of the Cumbria Health Scrutiny Committee

The next meeting of the Cumbria Health Scrutiny Committee will take place at Cumbria House, Carlisle at 10.30am on Monday 9th July 2018.

This committee consists of seven county councillors plus one district/city/borough councillor from each of the six district level councils in the county. It has the remit of scrutinising the decisions of local NHS organisations in the county and supporting the process of democratic accountability and oversight.

I referred in my previous post to the fact that the forthcoming meeting will be having discussion, which I very much welcome, about the reasons for cancelled operations, which is item 9) on the agenda.

The full agenda may be found here and also includes

7) A subcommittee report on the proposal to move certain specialist dental services from the Flatt Walks clinic in Whitehaven behind the sports centre to the health centre in Cleator Moor

8) The potential merger between the Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust and North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

10) An update on the Better Care Together plan for communication and engagement with the public for the Morecombe Bay University Hospitals NHS trust

11) A report by the Chief Executive of the NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group on the "Healthcare for the future" programme in North West and East Cumbria.