Issue - meetings

Other Business : Proposal to revise terms of reference

Meeting: 16/07/2020 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 9)

Other Business : Proposal to revise terms of reference

Mark Tickner, HWB Partnership Manager

Minutes:

NOTED

 

1.    The comments of Dr Nitika Silhi that she was pleased to be invited to the Board, and it was great to see the drive and commitment from everybody, cross-party, to improvements for patients. As a GP in Ponders End she was aware of the effect inequalities had on her patients and wanted to see an accurate reflection of those issues at CCG level and ICPs, in order that a difference could be made for our communities.

2.    Frances O’Callaghan, Accountable Officer for North Central London CCG, commented that the meeting had been enjoyable and interesting and that she had spent time with the local Co-Managing Directors understanding Enfield concerns and inequalities and funding challenges. From the NCL CCG perspective the borough of Enfield was important to them and there was a huge opportunity for collaboration, and she would be happy to discuss further.

3.    The Chair confirmed that the recently commissioned health inequality report gave clear recommendations, some of the most powerful of which depended on partnership. Whatever the proposals, in respect of endorsement of future plans, her questions would be (1) how any potential changes may provide more equitable health care across the region; and (2) how any potential proposals would directly help reduce health inequalities in this borough.

4.    Councillor Cazimoglu thanked NCL CCG for reaching out, and carrying on engaging with communities, and that it was important that conversations carried on at an individual level with officers.

5.    Parin Bahl, Healthwatch, re-iterated the importance that when changes came there was proper consultation and involvement, and an overview summary for the Board would be useful of what was happening at NCL CCG level.