Agenda

Adult Social Care and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday 17th April 2024 6.00 pm

Venue: Jeffrey Room, The Guildhall, St Giles Street, Northampton, NN1 1DE

Contact: James Edmunds / Sofia Neal-Gonzalez, Democratic Services 

Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies for Absence and Notification of Substitute Members

2.

Declarations of Interest

Members are asked to declare any interest and the nature of that interest which they may have in any of the items under consideration at this meeting.

3.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 102 KB

To confirm the Minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 17 January 2024.

4.

Chair's Announcements

To receive communications from the Chair.

5.

University Hospitals of Northamptonshire - joint management with University Hospitals of Leicester

The Committee to consider a presentation giving an overview of the joint management arrangements introduced in 2023 and the implications for West Northamptonshire.

6.

Ambulance response as part of action on urgent and emergency care demand

The Committee to consider a presentation giving an overview of plans regarding future ambulance responses as part of the Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Urgent and Emergency Care Strategy.

7.

International recruitment challenges in adult social care pdf icon PDF 447 KB

The Committee to consider any issues experienced in West Northamptonshire with regard to the operation of the national health and care worker visa scheme.

8.

Approach to scrutiny of performance pdf icon PDF 545 KB

The Committee to consider a proposed future approach to prioritised scrutiny of performance against adult care, public health and wellbeing key performance indicators.

9.

Review of Committee Work Programme pdf icon PDF 68 KB

To review and note the Committee Work Programme for 2023/24.

10.

Urgent Business

The Chair to advise whether they have agreed to any items of urgent business being admitted to the agenda.

11.

Exclusion of Press and Public

Exempt Items In respect of the following items the Chair may move the resolution set out below, on the grounds that if the public were present it would be likely that exempt information (information regarded as private for the purposes of the Local Government Act 1972) would be disclosed to them: The Committee is requested to resolve: “That under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that if the public were present it would be likely that exempt information under Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act of the descriptions against each item would be disclosed to them”