Agenda item - Declarations of substitutes and interests and exclusions

The Chair of the Board will formally ask if anyone is attending to represent another member, and if anyone has a personal and/or financial interest in anything being discussed at the meeting.  The Board will then consider whether any of the discussions to be held need to be in private.

1.1         There were no substitutes.

1.2         The Chair made a declaration that, as an employee of an NHS Trust he had sought and had been granted dispensation to speak on certain items, and would read out this dispensation when reaching the relevant item (Item 5). He also explained that there were Part 2 minutes to be agreed from the previous meeting, but saw no obvious need for the committee to consider these in private session.

1.3       RESOLVED: That the press and public be not excluded from the meeting.