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ITEM CC9 - ANNEX 3

COUNTY COUNCIL – 9 SEPTEMBER 2003

Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Terms of Reference

1. To review or scrutinise within the following framework, those services which impact on the health of the local population which are commissioned or delivered in Oxfordshire, or jointly with any other local authority where such services are commissioned outside Oxfordshire but are delivered to the inhabitants of the County:

1. arrangements made by local National Health Service (NHS) bodies to secure hospital and community health services to the inhabitants of Oxfordshire;
2. the provision of such services to those inhabitants;
3. the provision of family health services (Primary Care Trusts), personal medical services, personal dental services, pharmacy and NHS ophthalmic services;
4. the public health arrangements in the area e.g. arrangements by NHS bodies for the surveillance of, and response to, outbreaks of communicable disease or the provision of specialist health promotion services;
5. the planning of health services by NHS bodies, including plans made in co-operation with local authorities setting out a strategy for improving both the health of the local population and the provision of health care to that population;
6. the arrangements made by NHS bodies for consulting and involving patients and the public under the duty placed on them by Section 11 of the Health & Social Care Act 2001;
7. social care services and other health related services jointly commissioned by the Social and Health Care Directorate and local health bodies delivered by the County Council.
2. To receive and consider any matter referred to the Committee by a Patients Forum by virtue of powers under the NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002.
3. To review or scrutinise any other issues related to health and the population of Oxfordshire.

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