To consider any matters referred by the Council or by the Overview and Scrutiny Committees:

a) Health Scrutiny – Dignity In Care Follow-Up

Councillor Harding, as Chair of the Health Scrutiny Committee, was in attendance to introduce a report summarising the Committee’s work in following up its previous study on Dignity In Care, and making recommendations to the Executive. She thanked all who had been involved in the report’s preparation, and noted the close links of this item to the report on Delayed Discharges, considered elsewhere on the agenda. The Committee was intending to monitor the position, and looked forward to receiving a formal response to its recommendations. The Executive Member for Adult Social Services and Community Wellbeing welcomed the reports, and made some preliminary observations. In particular, he welcomed the opportunity for continuing discussions on the role of the Care Co-Ordination Centre; and confirmed that a formal response would be made on behalf of the Executive in due course.

            RESOLVED –

(1)        That the content of the report be noted.

(2)        That a formal response be made in due course on behalf of the Executive.

b) Health Scrutiny – Delayed Discharges

Councillor Harding, as Chair of the Health Scrutiny Committee, was in attendance to introduce a report summarising the Committee’s work in relation to Delayed Discharges, and making recommendations to the Executive. The report was considered in conjunction with the Dignity In Care report elsewhere on the agenda. The Executive Member for Adult Social Services and Community Wellbeing made some preliminary observations and confirmed that a formal response would be made on behalf of the Executive in due course.

            RESOLVED –

(1)        That the content of the report be noted.

(2)        That a formal response be made in due course on behalf of the Executive.