Present:-

Devon County Council

Councillors Younger-Ross (Chairman), Barisic, Barker, Brook, Clarance, Clatworthy, Dempster, Dewhirst, Gribble and Hook

Teignbridge District Council

Councillor Haines

Devon Association Local Councils (DALC)

Councillor Meathrel

Apologies

Councillors Connett (Devon County Council)

Councillor Swain (DALC)

*24 Election of Chairman

RESOLVED that Councillor Gribble be elected Chairman for the ensuing year.

*25 Election of Vice-Chairman

RESOLVED that Councillor Dempster be elected Vice-Chairman for the ensuing year.

*26 Minutes

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 26 March 2015 be signed as a correct record.

*27 S Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Reorganisation of Community Services

The Chairman welcomed Jenny Turner, NHS CCG Locality Commissioning Manager who reported on the outcome of the recent consultation on community health services in the coastal locality (specifically Teignmouth and Dawlish within the South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group area). This was to ensure both Teignmouth and Dawlish Community hospitals were sustainable for now and the longer term, addressing the needs of the future population with increased demand as the number of older patients increased together with the number of patients with multiple long term conditions, delivering coordinated services as close to home as possible and reducing pressure on large hospital Accident Emergency.

The options arising from the consultation were presented to the DCC Health Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee on 18 June 2015 and the NHS CCG Governing Body approved the implementation of Option 1 on 26 June. This delivered a flexible whole system, integrated service, with a centre for urgent care in Dawlish with an enhanced minor injuries unit, 16 medical beds and GP out of hours and a centre for rehabilitation in Teignmouth with 8 rehabilitation beds, out-patient clinics and community teams. This option kept as many services as possible locally (within 3 miles) and allowed for investment in minor injuries services and community teams. This was the preferred option of the CCG Coastal Locality GP leads, some local members and other interest groups.

However other local members and local GPs did not support Option 1 and preferred an alternative approach (Option 3) which included medical beds in Teignmouth hospital.

An implementation group was now being established to take forward Option 1 as soon as possible to address the demand faced now.

Members would welcome a discussion with the Integrated Care Organisation (ICO) (South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust) regarding plans and the business case for the new model of care including proposed bed closures at a future meeting and Ms Turner advised a meeting was likely to be appropriate in the autumn.

RESOLVED that the Integrated Care Organisation be invited to a future meeting to discuss the proposals and business case for the future model of care.

*28 Local Member Updates

Nil. .

*29 Council/Cabinet Forward Plan and Scrutiny Work Programme

The Committee noted the Council/Cabinet Forward Plan and the Scrutiny Work Programme were available for inspection by using the links below, in the event that the Committee may wish to provide evidence to specific Task Groups or otherwise comment upon specific areas of activity to the appropriate Scrutiny Committee or the Cabinet.

http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/decision_making/cabinet_committee/forward_plan.htm

https://new.devon.gov.uk/democracy/committee-meetings/scrutiny-committees/scrutiny-work-programme/

*30 Dates for Future Meetings

Wednesday 4 November 2015

Thursday 3 March 2016

Please use link below for County Council Calendar of Meetings:

https://new.devon.gov.uk/democracy/calendar/

*DENOTES DELEGATED MATTER WITH POWER TO ACT

The meeting started at 10.30am and finished at 11.35am