AGENDA

 

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee Meeting

 

Date:   Tuesday 21 September 2010

Time:   10.30 am

Venue: Town Hall, High Street, Maidstone

 

Membership:

 

Councillors: Atwood, Crowhurst, Cunningham, Elliott (Chairman), Marchant (Vice-Chairman), D Mortimer, Paterson and Mrs Stockell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1.       The Committee to consider whether all items on the agenda should be web-cast

 

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2.       Apologies.

 

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3.       Notification of Visiting Members

 

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4.       Disclosure by Members and Officers:

 

 

a) Disclosures of interest

b) Disclosures of lobbying

c) Disclosures of whipping

 

 

 

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5.       To consider whether any items should be taken in private because of the possible disclosure of exempt information

 

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6.       Minutes of the Meeting held on 17 June 2010

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7.       Appointment of Co-optee.

 

 

To consider the co-option of Councillor Dr Basu, a retired consultant oncologist, as a non- voting member of the Committee for agenda item 8: Department of Health consultation on health reforms.

 

 

 

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8.       Department of Health consultation on health reforms

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To consider whether, and if so how, to respond to the Department of Health White Papers issued under the overarching title ‘Liberating the NHS’.

 

Interviews with:

 

a)

Mr A Scarff, Head of Business & Corporate Planning, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust; and

Mr J Thallon, Medical Director NHS West Kent.

(10:30 to 11:15)

 

b)

Graham Hills, Operational Director, Kent and Medway Local Involvement Networks;

Mr C Wanstall, Kent and Medway Local Involvement Networks;

Mr M Fittock, Kent and Medway Local Involvement Networks; and

Dr R Bowes, Chair of the South West Kent PBC Group. (11:15 to 12:00)

 

c)

Helen Wolstenholme, Healthier Communities Manager, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council;

Ms T Gailey, Health Policy Manager KCC; and

Ms J Coombes, Maidstone Borough Council Healthy lifestyles coordinator.

(12:00 to 12:45)

 

d)

Consideration of the White Papers.

 

 

 

 

 

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