Agenda

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Items
No. Item

1.

MEMBERSHIP

To note that Council on 3 November 2021 made the following changes to the membership: 

 

Councillors V. Jones and C. Hardy have been appointed to the Committee. 

 

Councillor V. Jones has been elected as Chair. 

 

10 Members (5:3:1:1) 

 

Quorum - 3 

Chair: V. Jones 

Vice Chair: K. Nisbet 

Conservative

Labour

Independent Group

Liberal Democrats

Green Party

Ind?Non-Grouped

R. Dodd 

L. Bowman 

G. Hill 

I. Hunter 

D. Ferguson 

K. Nisbet 

C. Hardy 

R. Wilczek 

C. Humphrey 

V. Jones 

 

 

2.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

3.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 188 KB

Minutes of the meeting of the Health & Wellbeing Overview & Scrutiny Committee held on 5 October 2021, as circulated, to be confirmed as a true record and signed by the Chair.

4.

DISCLOSURE OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS

Unless already entered in the Council’s Register of Members’ interests, members are required to disclose any personal interest (which includes any disclosable pecuniary interest) they may have in any of the items included on the agenda for the meeting in accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by the Council on 4 July 2012, and are reminded that if they have any personal interests of a prejudicial nature (as defined under paragraph 17 of the Code Conduct) they must not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter.

 

NB Any member needing clarification must contact the Monitoring Officer at monitoringofficer@northumberland.gov.uk.  Please refer to the guidance on disclosures at the rear of this Agenda letter.

5.

FORWARD PLAN pdf icon PDF 132 KB

To note the latest Forward Plan of key decisions.  Any further changes to the Forward Plan will be reported at the meeting.

6.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING BOARD pdf icon PDF 114 KB

The minutes of the Health & Wellbeing Board held on 9 September 2021 and 14 October 2021 are attached for the scrutiny of any issues considered or agreed there.

Additional documents:

7.

COVID/VACCINE UPDATE

To receive a presentation from Liz Morgan, Director of Public Health, and Rachel Mitcheson, Northumberland CCG on the latest COIVD-19 figures and Public Health Strategies.

8.

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2020 pdf icon PDF 174 KB

The purpose of this report is to present the Director of Public Health (DPH) Annual Report for 2020 which for this year, was focused on protecting the health of our communities from the impact of Covid 19.

9.

REPORT OF THE SCRUTINY OFFICER pdf icon PDF 204 KB

Health and Wellbeing OSC Work Programme

 

To consider the work programme/monitoring report for the Health and Wellbeing OSC for 2021/22.

10.

URGENT BUSINESS

To consider such other business as, in the opinion of the Chair, should, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency.

11.

DATE OF NEXT MEETING

The date of the next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 4 January 2022 at 1.00 p.m.