Meeting documents

Details of all Members’ interests in District, Town and Parish Councils will be displayed in the meeting room. The Statutory Register of Member’s Interests can be inspected via the Community Governance team.

There were no declarations of interest.

The minutes of the previous meeting held on 29 March 2017 are provided for the Committee’s information.

Due to the change in Committee membership, the minutes of the last meeting were provided for information only. 

It was clarified that wherever possible written responses to public questions would be circulated to the Committee electronically. 

The Chairman will allow members of the public to ask a question or make a statement about any matter on the agenda for this meeting. These questions may be taken during the meeting, when the relevant agenda item is considered, at the Chairman’s discretion.  

There were three public questions.

Nigel Behan, Unite Union, asked the following question in relation to Item 3:

These Questions relate to the minutes of the Scrutiny meeting (29th March), Agenda Item 11, Minute 21.

Q1)

a)         We support these conclusions (in Minute 21) – will they be rolled out  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

To receive the report.

The Committee received a report from the Senior Responsible Officer, Somerset Sustainability & Transformation Plan (STP).  They also received an executive summary of the STP.

The Somerset STP has been developed jointly by Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group, Somerset County Council, Somerset Partnership NHS FT, Yeovil District Hospital NHS FT and Taunton  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

To receive this report.

The Committee received a report and presentation from the Chief Executive, Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust regarding the inspection of the Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in February and March 2017.

The Trust had previously been inspected by the CQC in September 2015 where the CQC rated the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

To receive this report. 

The Committee received a report from the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Project Manager and a Public Health Specialist.

Production of an annual JSNA is a statutory duty for Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWB).  The assessment presents evidence on the scale and nature of the population’s health and care needs,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

To receive this report. 

The Committee received a report from a Public Health Specialist which updated the Committee on the progress of the Somerset-Wide Integrated Sexual Health (SWISH) service including areas of concern raised in the last report to the Committee in November 2016.

The SWISH Service is making strong progress and is performing  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

To receive an update from the Governance Manager, Scrutiny and discuss any items for the work programme. To assist the discussion, attached are:

·        The Committee’s work programme

·        The Cabinet’s forward plan

The Committee considered and noted the Council’s Forward Plan of proposed key decisions.

Following debate, the Committee requested the following changes to the work programme:

·        To remove the planned update on Minehead/Williton Hospital

·        An update regarding the STP on 20 September 2017

·        An update on the Reablement and Discharge  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.

The Chairman may raise any items of urgent business.

There were no other items of business.