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Apologies Minutes: Apologies were received from Councillors D Lamb and K Sharp.
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Declarations of Interest and Whipping Declarations At this point Members must declare whether they have a disclosable pecuniary interest, or other interest, in any of the items on the agenda, unless it is already entered in the register of members’ interests or is a “pending notification “ that has been disclosed to the Solicitor to the Council. Members must also declare if they are subject to their party group whip in relation to any items under consideration.
Minutes: None were received.
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Minutes of Meeting held on 17 July 2012 PDF 143 KB Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on 17 July 2012 were approved as an accurate record.
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Call In of any Cabinet, Cabinet Member or Key Officer Decisions The decision notice for each decision will bear the date on which it is published and will specify that the decision may then be implemented on the expiry of 3 working days after the publication of the decision (not including the date of publication), unless a request for call-in of the decision is received from any two Members of a Scrutiny Committee or Scrutiny Commissions. If a request for call-in of a decision is received, implementation of the decision remains suspended for consideration by the relevant Scrutiny Committee or Commission.
Minutes: There were no requests for call-in to consider.
The chairman advised the committee that item 7 on the agenda, would be dealt with after item 5.
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Equality Delivery System - Update (PSHFT) PDF 56 KB Minutes: Joan Tiplady introduced a report giving detailed information in respect of the Equality Delivery System (EDS) outcomes that had achieved a red rating (grading) including that progress reports were now made regularly to the Trust Board and an e-learning programme for staff had been started.
Comments and responses to questions included: · The action plan to achieve the goals can be circulated to the Commission; · An update can be submitted to the Commission in six month’s time; · Regular reporting was every 3 months depending on the work achieved in that time; · The ratings had not been re-graded following actions to improve them. This would need an external rather than internal grading and may take a year to see full results; and · Pensioners groups could be included in the workshops to assess the re-grading of the EDS outcomes.
ACTIONS AGREED
The Committee agreed that:
1. The Action Plan for improvement to be circulated; 2. A further updated report to be submitted in six months; 3. Pensioner groups should be included in the next grading workshop.
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Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust PDF 54 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The Interim Chief Executive Officer of Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust introduced a report providing and update on the Trust including the strategy to improve its financial position, which would include attracting more patients, expanding successful services such as cancer treatment, improve and expand current services and a possible long term special subsidy from Government.
Comments and responses to questions included:
Angus Maitland introduced the section of the report concerning operational performance to July 2012 ... view the full minutes text for item 6. |
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Equality Delivery System - Update (NHSP) PDF 58 KB Additional documents: Minutes: Alan Mack and Geeta Pankhania introduced a report following a request from the Commission’s meeting on 21 June 2012 for detailed information in respect of the Equality Delivery System (EDS) outcomes that were ‘red’ rated. An internal assessment had been undertaken to indicate progress made but this would need ratifying by an external assessment.
Comments and responses to questions included:
ACTION AGREED
A full assessment report would be submitted to the Commission after the publication of the ratings in April 2013.
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Forward Plan of Key Decisions PDF 43 KB Additional documents: Minutes: The Commission received the latest version of the Council’s Forward Plan, containing key decisions that the Leader of the Council anticipated the Cabinet or individual Cabinet Members would make during the course of the following four months. Members were invited to comment on the Plan and, where appropriate, identify any relevant areas for inclusion in the Committee’s work programme.
Comments and responses to questions included:
ACTION AGREED
The Commission noted the Forward Plan.
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Minutes: Members considered the Committee’s Work Programme for 2012/13 and discussed possible items for inclusion.
The Senior Governance Officer advised that the additional dates on the programme were to advise reporting officers of report submission dates and were not relevant to the work of the Members.
The Senior Governance Officer to the meeting advised Members on the call-in process for executive decisions.
ACTION AGREED
To confirm the work programme for 2012/13 and the Senior Governance Officer to include any additional items as requested during the meeting.
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Date of Next Meeting Thursday 1 November 2012 |