Issue - meetings

To consider the report.

The Public Health Consultant introduced the report which sought to develop a new MoU that sets out how the shared service will work with the ICB and NHS partners.

Officers responded to Members’ comments and requests for clarification, details included:

• The reason for establishing a Memorandum of Understanding was to define the service provision within the NHS ‘Core Offer’ and how the service would work with the Public Health, currently, there was no central point of reference, hence the need for a MoU.
• The MoU would allow the understanding of requests that come through and also to allow public health, which was a small team that provided the service for approximately 800,000 people, to fulfil its obligations, which would allow for better prioritisation.
• A formal MoU was welcomed by NHS Dorset and it would focus on setting out the offerings between each organisation.
• The governance arrangements would need to be discussed and agreed at the next meeting of the System Executive Group and would be presented to the Board at a future meeting.

Noted