This protocol provides a framework under the
Local Authority (Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and
Public Health) Regulations 2013 for considering and providing a
formal consultation response in relation to proposals affecting the
population covered by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation
Trust, in particular:
(a) The proposed review of Stroke
Rehabilitation Services in County Durham and Darlington.
(b) The future of Inpatient Rehabilitation
Services across County Durham and Darlington (Ward 6 Bishop
Auckland Hospital).
A Health Joint Scrutiny
Committee (“the Joint Committee”) comprising
Darlington Borough
Council and Durham County Council (“the
constituent
authorities”) has been established in accordance with the
Local Authority (Public
Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Public
Health) Regulations 2013
for the purposes of formal consultation by the
relevant NHS Bodies in
relation to the matters referred to at paragraphs
1(a) of this protocol,
and in particular in order to be able to:-
(a) make comments on the proposals
consulted on, to the relevant NHS Bodies under the Local Authority
(Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Public Health)
Regulations 2013;
(b) require the relevant NHS Bodies
to provide information about the proposals under the Regulations;
or
(c) require an officer of the
relevant NHS Bodies to attend before it under the Regulations to
answer such questions as appear to it to be necessary for the
discharge of its functions in connection with the consultation;
(d) make recommendations to the
relevant NHS Bodies and expect a response within 28
days.
The Joint Committee is
independent of its constituent councils,
executives and political
groups and this independence should not be
compromised by any
member, officer or relevant NHS bodies.
The Joint
Committee will send
copies of its final report and formal consultation
response to the relevant
NHS Bodies and the constituent authorities.
The primary objectives of
the Joint Committee will be to reach consensus,
but where there are any
aspects of the consultation as regards which
there is no consensus,
the Joint Committee’s final report and formal
consultation response
will include, in full, the views of all of the constituent
authorities, with the
specific reasons for those views, regarding those
areas where there is no
consensus, as well as the constituent authorities’
views in relation to
those matters where there is a consensus.