Committee details

Committee details

Health Scrutiny Committee

Purpose of committee

Scrutiny Committees represent the interests of local people about important issues that affect them. They look at how the decisions, policies and services of the Council and other key public agencies impact on the city and its residents. Scrutiny Committees do not take decisions but can make recommendations to decision-makers about how they are delivering the Manchester Strategy, an agreed vision for a better Manchester that is shared by public agencies across the city.

 

The Health Scrutiny Committee looks at how the Council and its partners in the NHS deliver health and social care services to improve the health and wellbeing of Manchester residents. The Committee takes a broad views of the health and social care services that are commissioned and provided by both the NHS and the Council so that it can make recommendations about how they can improve these services.

 

The committee’s current work programme (opens in new tab / window)

 

Areas of interest include social care for adults, health inequalities, health services, the protection and safeguarding of adults in receipt of health and social care services, mental health and wellbeing, experiences and outcomes for patients, public health and healthy living.

 

The Council wants to consult people as fully as possible before making decisions that affect them. Members of the public do not have a right to speak at meetings but may do so if invited by the Chair. If you have a special interest in an item on the agenda and want to speak, tell the Committee Officer, who will pass on your request to the Chair. Groups of people will usually be asked to nominate a spokesperson. The Council wants its meetings to be as open as possible but occasionally there will be some confidential business. Brief reasons for confidentiality will be shown on the agenda sheet.

 

You can suggest a topic for this committee to investigate.

Membership

Contact information

Support officer: Lee Walker.

Phone: 0161 234 3376

Email: lee.walker@manchester.gov.uk