Committee details

TERMS OF REFERENCE

SCRUTINY COMMITTEE: HEALTH

The committee will scrutinise Leicester’s Primary Care Trusts and other health care bodies to ensure that health care services are provided.  It will also seek to ensure that local people are involved as appropriate under the NHS Reform Act and that matters referred by patients’ fora are addressed.

The Committee will scrutinise:

§           Provision and operation of hospital and community health services

§           Public health, health promotion and health improvement

§           Planning of health services to improve health and the provision of health care

§           Community engagement by the PCTs and other NHS bodies in the city

§           The Council’s functions as they impact on health

§           Matters referred by patients’ fora.