HOSC meeting:
10am
Monday 6th July 2009
Venue: Council Chamber, County Hall, St Anne's Crescent, Lewes, East Sussex BN1 1UE
Full details of agenda, minutes and reports are on the agendas page. The minutes of the meeting will be posted as soon as possible after the event.
Agenda items and people attending:
- Agenda
- Item 1 - Apologies for absence: Cllrs Tidy, Heaps, Howson
- Item 2 - Minutes of meeting held 19th March 2009
- Item 3 - Disclosures
- Item 4 - Notification of urgent items
- Item 5 - Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust - Teaching, Trauma and Tertiary Care (3T) programme
- Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive and Nick Groves, Associate Director (3T) from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and Mike Wood, Chief Executive from NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald/NHS Hastings and Rother will give a presentation describing the Trust's development plans and the impact on East Sussex residents.
- Item 6 - East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust – Infection Control
- Kim Hodgson, Chief Executive, Dr Barry Phillips, Director of Infection Prevention and Control and Beverley Thorp, Deputy Chief Nurse from East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust will present their report analysing the causes and lessons learnt from the Clostridium Difficile outbreak at Eastbourne District General Hospital in early 2009 and describing the Trust's wider infection control strategy. Click here for report. Mike Wood, Chief Executive from NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald/NHS Hastings and Rother will be in attendance to give a commissioner's perspective.
- Item 7 - Developing Maternity Services for East Sussex
Mike Wood, Chief Executive and Lisa Compton, Director of Public Engagement and Corporate Affairs from NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald/NHS Hastings and Rother will present progress with the maternity services programme, particularly focussing on plans for engaging local people and organisations. - Item 8 - HOSC Review of Stroke Care in East Sussex – NHS response
- Rachel Harrington, Programme Lead for Stroke and Kate Russell, Service Improvement Project Lead from NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald/NHS Hastings and Rother will present the response of local healthcare organisations to HOSC's recommendations from its review of stroke care.
- Item 9 - HOSC Task Group on aspects of the Mental Capacity Act – final report
- Item 10 - HOSC work programme
- Item 11 - Individual HOSC members activity - including Local Involvement Network (LINk) update. LINk work programme
- Item 12 - Any other items previously notified under agenda item 4.
- Next HOSC meeting: 10am Thursday 24 th September 2009 , County Hall, Lewes. Topics will include:
- Older people's mental health services
- Ambulance service development
- Developing maternity services
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