Issue - meetings

Recommendations:

Executive Members are asked to note the contents of this report and to recommend to

the Chief Executive Officer that using his emergency powers he:

i.      Approve the revised budget for the Section 75 agreement and delegate any amendments to this budget to the Corporate Director for Health and Adult Services in consultation with the Corporate Director for Strategic Resources;

ii.     Delegate the approval of the consultation on the proposed new service model to the Corporate Director for Health and Adult Services in consultation with the Director of Public Health and the Executive Member for Public Health.

Considered – A report of the Corporate Director Health and Adult Services and Director of Public Health, providing an update and revised position on the Section 75 agreement between NYCC and York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (YSFT).

County Councillor Caroline Dickinson introduced the report confirming that following a review of the Sexual Health Service and a re-tendering exercise, the County Council was looking to extend its arrangements through a Section 75 Agreement.  It was noted that Covid had impacted on the progression of the previously proposed Section 75 Agreement, so a detailed review of the position had since been undertaken.  This had resulted in amendments to the financial position, the service model and the initial length of the Section 75 Agreement.

Attention was drawn to the proposed service changes detailed in the report, which would be subject to a 60-day public consultation and virtual workshops for partners.

As there was no discussion about the content of the exempt Appendix 1, the Executive choose not to go into private session.  Instead it was

Resolved – That it be recommended to the Chief Executive Officer that using his emergency powers he:

i.  Approve the revised budget for the Section 75 agreement and delegate any amendments to that budget to the Corporate Director for Health and Adult Services in consultation with the Corporate Director for Strategic Resources;

ii.    Delegate the approval of the consultation on the proposed new service model to the Corporate Director for Health and Adult Services in consultation with the Director of Public Health and the Executive Member for Public Health.