To agree a Chair of the Committee for 2013/14.

To agree a Vice Chair of the Committee for 2013/14.

To note attendances, including Officers, and any apologies for absence.

To receive and if so determined, to approve as a correct record, the minutes of the last meeting of the Joint Health Scrutiny Committee held on 14 January 2013. 

To note any declarations of interest.

To note the membership of the Committee for 2013/14.  

The Committee are requested to consider their terms of reference for 2013/14.

To receive the response from the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, in respect of the referral made by the Joint Health Scrutiny Committee.  The Independent Reconfiguration Panel’s advice is also enclosed for the Committee’s consideration. 

To receive an oral update from the Committee’s Chairman following a meeting with the Vice Chair and Dr Mike Burrows which was held on 30 July 2013. 

Any other item or items (not likely to disclose "exempt information") which, by reason of special circumstances (to be specified), the Chairman of the meeting is of the opinion should be considered at this meeting as a matter of urgency.

Motion   (Which may be amended as Members think fit):

That the public be excluded from this meeting during consideration of the remaining items on the agenda, because of the likelihood of disclosure of “exempt information” which falls within one or more descriptive category or categories of the Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12A, as amended by The Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006, and specified on the agenda item or report relating to each such item respectively.