Approach

WHAT DOES THE HEALTH SCRUTINY COMMITTEE DO?

• Health scrutiny carries out independent checks:
  1. on health services provided / commissioned by the NHS;
  2. on council services that impact on local people’s health and wellbeing (housing, social services, environmental health etc)

• It raises concerns; asks why decisions have been made that way; and proposes alternative solutions if ”a better way” seems to be a possibility.

WHAT WILL IT NOT DO?

• Health scrutiny is not a complaints service - it cannot monitor or investigate individual cases - it is there to look at broad health issues.
• It will not just focus on the NHS - it will look at improving health services in the widest sense, and will respond to local factors that impact on people’s health and wellbeing.