Notice of Motion

nhs health and social care decision making: democratic deficit

Green GROUP PROPOSED ALTERATION TO THE MOTION

That the motion be altered to delete the words as struck through and to insert the text as shown in bold italics.

This council:

· Notes that the majority of the NHS England budget is allocated to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), not local authorities;

· Notes the outcome of the NHS Five Year Forward View, which seeks to give CCGs more influence over the NHS budget;

· Notes that currently, half of the voting members of this council’s Health and Wellbeing Board are non-councillors; and

· Notes the opportunity to address this through the comprehensive Health & Wellbeing Board review.

This council requests that as part of the planned review into the Health & Wellbeing Board function, that:

(1) The terms of reference of this Board are amended, to reflect options for providing greater democratic oversight of Health and Adult Social Care decisions; and

That this council agrees through requests of a letter or other appropriate means to that the Chief Executive write to the Prime Minister’s Office:

(1) Request To ask that any future the newly elected government commits to adequately fund adult social care in line with need, and further;

(2) To ask that the pledge to work with all parties be upheld to develop a plan for Adult Social Care funding and provision, including through liaison and consultation with the Local Government Association.

Proposed by: Cllr Shanks                            Seconded by Cllr Nield

Motion if carried to read:

This council:

· Notes that the majority of the NHS England budget is allocated to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), not local authorities;

· Notes the outcome of the NHS Five Year Forward View, which seeks to give CCGs more influence over the NHS budget;

· Notes that currently, half of the voting members of this council’s Health and Wellbeing Board are non-councillors; and

· Notes the opportunity to address this through the comprehensive Health & Wellbeing Board review.

This council requests that as part of the planned review into the Health & Wellbeing Board function, that:

(1) The terms of reference of this Board are amended, to reflect options for providing greater democratic oversight of Health and Adult Social Care decisions;

That this council requests that the Chief Executive write to the Prime Minister’s Office:

(1) To ask that the newly elected government commits to adequately fund adult social care in line with need, and further;

(2) To ask that the pledge to work with all parties be upheld to develop a plan for Adult Social Care funding and provision, including through liaison and consultation with the Local Government Association.