Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Governance Committee on amendments to membership of the Health and Wellbeing Board and associated changes to the Council’s Constitution (attached).  

Report AGREED without division.

A report of the Governance Committee proposed some minor changes to the Constitution to reflect the revised member of the Health and Wellbeing Board which now included representatives of the main provider trusts for the local area.

The report was AGREED without division and it was RESOLVED:

1.       That the section of the table in the Appendix to Article 12 of the Constitution dealing with the Number of Members and any special requirements for the Health and wellbeing Board be amended to read as follows:

Four Councillors

Four Council Officers (Chief Executive, Director of Public Health, Director, Adult Services and Director, Children’s Services)

Four representatives of Havering Clinical Commissioning Group

One member from Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals’ NHS Trust (BHRUT)

One member from North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT)

One member from NHS England

One member from Healthwatch Havering

2.         Paragraph 16 (a) of the Committee Procedure Rules of the Constitution be amended to read as follows:

Quorum for Board meetings shall be nine members.

The Committee was invited to consider a report proposing some minor changes to the Constitution to reflect the revised membership of the Health and Wellbeing Board following a recent revision of the Board’s terms of reference.

Members discussed whether the revised mix was appropriate as it contained service providers, but on being persuaded that the Board was not a commissioning body and that it worked in a collegiate manner,

The Committee unanimously agreed to:

Recommend to Council that:

1.            The section of the table in the Appendix to Article 12 of the Constitution dealing with the Number of Members and any special requirements for the Health and wellbeing Board be amended to read as follows:

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Four Councillors

Four Council Officers (Chief Executive, Director of Public Health, Director, Adult Services and Director, Children’s Services)

Four representatives of Havering Clinical Commissioning Group

One member from Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals’ NHS Trust (BHRUT)

One member from North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT)

One member from NHS England

One member from Healthwatch Havering

2.            Paragraph 16 (a) of the Committee Procedure Rules of the Constitution be amended to read as follows:

Quorum for Board meetings shall be nine members.