Issue - meetings

(i)  Minute 91 -  Referral to Treatment.

Cllr Carpenter, Cabinet Member for Educational Attainment & School Improvement, and Cllr Turner, Cabinet Member for Corporate Performance and Delivery, both requested inclusion of some of their comments and for the minutes to be stronger in the displeasure that the Councillors and the Council had felt at the underhand behaviour of BHRUT in deliberately not reporting the problem to the Board and in the continuing delays that residents were experiencing in obtaining appointments and treatment. 

The Chair pointed out that minutes by their nature quite rightly do not express emotion, but in view of the Councillors’ strong views the Chair agreed that the minutes of the 26 April 2016, with the requested changes to Minute 91, would be represented at the next meeting for approval.  The Chair advised that the LBBD Health and Adult Services Select Committee had now also considered the Referral to Treatment issue and would be reporting its recommendations in due course.