Agenda

Members are asked to declare any interests they may have in the business on the agenda.

The minutes of the meeting held on 27 June 2017 are attached and the Committee is asked to confirm them as a correct record.

The Monitoring Officer to report on the receipt of any petitions submitted in accordance with the Council’s procedures

The Monitoring Officer to report on the receipt of any questions, petitions, or statements of case in accordance with the Council’s procedures

To consider NHS England’s decision on the Congenital Heart Disease Services Review with particular reference to outcome for the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre at Glenfield Hospital.

NHS England launched a national consultation on its proposals for the future commissioning of Congenital Heart Disease services on 9 February 2017 and this closed on 17 July 2017. The decision has been made on 30^th November 2017 by NHS England’s Board, with reference to the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre as follows:

“Continuing to commission University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to provide level 1 CHD services, conditional on achieving full compliance with the standards in line with their own plan to do so and demonstrating convincing progress along the way”

The NHS England’s Board paper outlining the decision is attached for the Committee’s reference and the consultation responses can be found on the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/06-pb-30-11-2017-annex-a-congenital-heart-disease-consultation-report.pdf

The Committee is to receive a verbal update from University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust on the impact of the decision and their planning to maintain the standards.

To consider NHS England’s review of paediatric critical care and specialised surgery for children launched in October 2016.

Several engagement events were held between January and March 2017 – bringing clinicians and experts in paediatric critical care together to discuss the areas they see as the greatest challenge facing services and to get their ideas on how things could be improved. Following these events, NHS England are developing a proposed new model of care in response to these issues, while also looking at existing data on paediatric critical care which highlights the pressures on critical care services.

NHS England has produced an analytical pack containing some of the review’s early work which examines why there is pressure on paediatric intensive care units. They are also currently looking at the data available on specialised surgery in children.

Following the outcome of the Congenital Heart Disease services review, this provides the Committee with the opportunity to consider the current position of the paediatric critical care and specialised surgery for children review.

The committee is to receive a verbal update from University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust on the review and its impact on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Unit at Glenfield Hospital.

Supporting Information

The following supporting information is supplied to assist the committee to comment upon the information in the analytical pack.

a)    Dr Gale Pearson, Intensive Care Consultant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Chair of the Clinical Reference Group for Paediatric Intensive Care, Blog dated 23 June 2017.

b)    Dr Peter Wilson, Paediatric Intensive Care Consultant at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, and the Clinical Chair of the Women and Children’s Programme of Care Board at NHS England, Blog dated 11 October 2017.

c)    Paediatric critical care and specialised surgery review: issues to address.

d)    Paediatric critical care and specialised surgery review: Frequently Asked Questions.