Agenda and minutes

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11.

Attendance by Reserve Members

To note the attendance at this meeting of any duly appointed Reserve Members.

 

Reserve Members may attend meetings:-

 

(i)                 to take the place of an ordinary Member for whom they are a reserve;

(ii)               where the ordinary Member will be absent for the whole of the meeting; and

(iii)             the meeting notes at the start of the meeting at the item ‘Reserves’ that the Reserve Member is or will be attending as a reserve;

(iv)              if a Reserve Member whose intention to attend has been noted arrives after the commencement of the meeting, then that Reserve Member can only act as a Member from the start of the next item of business on the agenda after his/her arrival.

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Minutes:

RESOLVED:  To note that Councillor Natasha Proctor was reserving for Councillor Ghazanfar Ali.

12.

Declarations of Interest

To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from:

 

(a)          all Members of the Board;

(b)          all other Members present.

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RESOLVED:  To note that there were no declarations of interests made by Members.

13.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 172 KB

That the minutes of the meeting held on 26 July 2022 be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

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RESOLVED:  That the minutes of the meeting held on 26 July 2022, be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

14.

Public Questions

To receive any public questions received in accordance with Board Procedure Rule 14.

 

Questions will be asked in the order in which they were received.  There will be a time limit of 15 minutes for the asking and answering of public questions.

 

[The deadline for receipt of public questions is 3.00 pm, 18 November 2022.  Questions should be sent to publicquestions@harrow.gov.uk

No person may submit more than one question].

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RESOLVED:  To note that no public questions, petitions or deputations had been received.

Recommended Items

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15.

Review of Terms of Reference

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Minutes:

Members received the Health and Wellbeing Board Terms of Reference Report, which set out revised Terms of Reference for the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) and confirmation of its membership.

 

Having agreed to amendments to the Board’s Terms of Reference and Procedure Rules, the Board

 

Resolved to RECOMMEND:  (to Council)

 

That the Council’s Constitution be updated with the revised terms of reference, as attached in Appendix 1, the Health and Wellbeing Board Procedure Rules, as attached in Appendix 2 and the proposed quorum for the Board which required at least one member of the Council and one member of the North West Integrated Care Board to be present.

 

RESOLVED:  That

 

(1)            the revised terms of reference of the Board, as set out in Appendix 1 to the minutes, be agreed;

 

(2)            the revised Health and Wellbeing Board Procedure Rules, as set out in Appendix 2 to the minutes, be agreed;

 

(3)            the proposed quorum for the HWB requiring at least one member of the Council and one member of the North West Integrated Care Board being present be agreed;

 

(4)            Dr Radhika Balu be appointed as Vice-Chair for the remainder of the 2022-23 municipal year.

Resolved Items

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16.

Winter Resilience & Winter Pressure Management pdf icon PDF 174 KB

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Minutes:

Members received the Winter Resilience and Winter Pressure Management Report, which set out the Current system pressures and vaccination uptake rates.

 

Members also considered the response from the Harrow health and care system in responding to pressures, including the allocation of additional winter funding.

 

RESOLVED:  That the Report be noted.

17.

Health & Wellbeing Strategy - Sign Off pdf icon PDF 171 KB

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Members received the Health and Wellbeing Strategy Report, which was a statutory document that provided the strategic direction across Harrow to tackle the issues that influenced health and wellbeing.  This included wider issues and building blocks of good health such as housing, education and employment.

 

RESOLVED:  That the Strategy be endorsed and approved. 

18.

Inequalities Programme for Harrow pdf icon PDF 165 KB

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Members received the Inequalities Programme for Harrow Report.

 

The purpose of this report was to set out progress on the Borough Based Partnership delivery priority.  This was to establish a community capacity building and leadership programme for Harrow to support community groups access to help them address issues which are important to them.

 

In addition, the Report provided a broader overview of the health inequalities funding allocation for Harrow and how that will support delivery of the partnership’s objective.

 

RESOLVED:  That the Report be noted.

19.

Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment - Sign Off pdf icon PDF 189 KB

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Members received the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Report.

 

The Report was an assessment on the level of Community Pharmacy provision in Harrow.  The recommendations of the PNA would be used by NHS England to ensure there were sufficient Community Pharmacy contracts in place.

 

RESOLVED:  That the conclusion of the Report to have sufficient Community Pharmacy contracts in Harrow be approved.

20.

Better Care Fund, and Learning Disabilities & Autistic People Strategy - Sign Offs pdf icon PDF 160 KB

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Members received the Better Care Fund (BCF) 2022-23 Draft Plan Submission Report.

 

The report provided Members with the Better Care Fund Plan for 2022-23 submission.

 

RESOLVED:  That the details of the presentation be noted; and the BCF 2022-23 Plan Submission Report be endorsed.

21.

The Harrow Safeguarding Partnership Children and Adults Annual Report

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Minutes:

Members received the Harrow Safeguarding Partners’ Annual Report.

 

The was the first Harrow Safeguarding Report that had reported on the work to safeguard both adults and children – previously there were 2 separate reports.

 

The move to have a single report reflected the further integration of the support structures and funding for the Partnership as well as the joint work to strengthen awareness and understanding of safeguarding issues as they impacted on all members of the family, Safeguarding Partners in a Local Authority Area.  For the purposes of both safeguarding adults and children (the Partners) were required to publish their arrangements for both sets of safeguarding arrangements.

 

They were also required to publish at least annually a report on what the Partners had done under the Arrangements and whether they have been effective.  This independent scrutiny report was an assessment of how effective the Harrow Safeguarding Partnership had been in 2021-22.

 

RESOLVED:  That the Annual Report be endorsed.