October meeting of Cumbria Health Scrutiny Committee

The Cumbria Health Scrutiny Committee will be meeting on Monday 7th October 2019 at the council offices in Cumbria House, Botchergate, Carlisle, starting at 10.30 am. The meeting is expected to last until about half past three and will be open to the public.

The full agenda, including supporting reports can be read on the Cumbria County Council website at

https://councilportal.cumbria.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=152&MId=10453

The main items to be considered in the morning session (10.30 am to about 1pm) are

Changes to Mental Health Rehabilitation Services in Cumbria
(a joint report by NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group, Chief Officer, Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group and the Chief Operating Officer, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust)

Copeland Same Day Health Centre
(a report by NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group).


The main items to be considered after lunch, probably from about 1.50pm, are:

North Cumbria Podiatry Service 2019
(a report by NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group)

HealthCare for the Future Update
(Also a report by the NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group)

Cancelled Operations
(Two reports, one each from the hospitals trusts serving North and South Cumbria respectively.)

MRI and CT screening machines

The Prime Minister has announced a promise to deliver new funding for frontline NHS state-of-the-art MRI and CT screening machines, so our brilliant NHS staff have the tools they need for quicker cancer diagnosis and higher survival rates.

 

• Cancer survival rates are now at a record high and this £200 million new NHS funding will help ensure that 55,000 more people survive cancer every year.

 

• Over 300 diagnostic machines in hospitals across England will bring us closer to our ambition of becoming a global leader in cancer diagnosis, providing the very best care - wherever you live, and whatever your condition.

There are two meetings coming up at which Health Scrutiny councillors will be meeting NHS system leaders and discussing the NHS in Cumbria, and I will be ensuring that the question of whether we in Cumbria should be bidding for some of this money is raised.