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The Chair will provide a verbal update on relevant issues since the last meeting.

The Committee is recommended to NOTE the Chair’s update having raised any relevant questions.

The Committee needs to provide written feedback to the Quality Accounts for both Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Committee will discuss Oxford Health’s Quality Account as a public item during this meeting. In regards to the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Quality Account, the Committee is RECOMMENDED to:

a) AGREE to hold a private briefing with the Trust to discuss the Quality Account.

b) AGREE to finalise the wording of the feedback subsequent to and outside this meeting, and to submit the feedback to the Trust prior to the publication date for the Quality Account at the end of June 2025.

NHS England have requested that Integrated Care Boards share the following news with local HOSCs in relation to the redesignation of Urgent Care Centres and Minor Injuries Units into Urgent Treatment Centres:

‘Oxfordshire has three Minor Injury Units (MIUs); Abingdon, Witney, and Henley. They presently report monthly in the 4-hour standard for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. NHS England has requested that all these units are redesignated as Urgent Treatment Centres, otherwise they will not be able to continue to report the 4-hour standard. Before NHS England will complete the final assessment for designation, they have requested that the HOSC committee is aware of the redesignation.

Any units of this type (Minor Injuries Units and Urgent Care Centres) not to get the designation of an Urgent Treatment Centre, will have to stop reporting their activity in the 4-hour standard.

The regional and National NHS England team have requested that the HOSC is made aware of the potential redesignation of the Minor Injuries Units in Oxfordshire to Urgent Treatment Centres, to comply with full transparency.’

It has also been brought to the Committee’s attention that Professor Ben Burton (Royal College of Opthamologists) has written a letter to Stephen Kinnock MP (Minister of State for Care) in relation to Eye Care Services. The Committee will imminently receive a briefing from the BOB Integrated Care Board on the current state of Eye Care Services.

There are NINE documents attached to this item:

1.    EIGHT reports containing recommendations from the Committee on: the BOB Integrated Care Board Operating Model; the Health and Wellbeing Strategy Outcomes Framework; the Support for People Leaving Hospital; the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust People Plan; Audiology Services; Cancer Services; Musculoskeletal Services; the Director of Public Health Annual Report.

2.    The letter written by Professor Ben Burton to Stephen Kinnock MP (Minister of State for Care) in relation to Eye Care Services.

The Chair provided updates on several ongoing and new initiatives, including the Oxford Community Health Hubs Working Group. Volunteers were requested for the Wantage Substantial Change Working Group, with Councillor Batstone volunteering to join. The potential redesignation of minor injuries units and the ophthalmology briefing were also discussed. An ophthalmology briefing was scheduled for September due to public interest.

The Committee AGREED to provide feedback offline on the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust quality account, and the Chair also highlighted the importance of engaging with the new Chief Executive of the Trust.