Issue - meetings

To consider and endorse the Council’s response to the proposed merger of the Trusts running Hinchingbrooke, Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals.

Commends the letter and that an amended version be sent from the Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Communities and Environment).

The Cabinet considered a report (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) which outlined a response to the proposed merger of the Trusts running Hinchingbrooke, Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals prepared following the Special Meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Communities and Environment) on 28 June 2016.  The Cabinet was requested to consider and endorse the response.

The Cabinet suggested that it was more appropriate for the response to be sent directly from the Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel and preferred to refrain from any opinion until the full business case was presented.  The Cabinet agreed that it was a good piece of scrutiny work.  However, noted that the letter needed amendment to remove reference of it being a response of the Council and being endorsed by the Cabinet.  Whereupon, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

to commend the letter and that an amended version be sent from the Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Communities and Environment).