Contact: Jou Pyke

Direct Dial: 01934 634911

E-mail: joanna.pyke@n-somerset.gov.uk

Date: 31st May 2005

Dear Sir or Madam

Housing, Health and social for Adults Policy & Scrutiny Panel

Wednesday 8th June 2005, 6.00 p.m., New Council Chamber, TOWN HALL

A meeting of the Panel will take place as indicated above. The agenda is set out overleaf.

Yours faithfully

Solicitor to the Council

To: Members of the Panel

Councillors:

Ron Moon (Chairman), Muriel Kraft(Vice-Chairman), Peter Bryant, Colin Golland, Tom Leimdorfer, Hugh Parsons, Elizabeth Wells, Roz Willis

All other Members of the Council (for information)

AGENDA

1 Apologies for Absence and Notification of Substitutes

2 Public Discussion (Standing Order SSO 9)

To receive and hear any person who wishes to address the Panel. The Chairman will select the order of the matters to be heard.

3 Declarations of Interest by Members

4 Minutes

4.1 Panel Meeting – 6th April 2005, (page 4)

5 Matters referred by Council, the Executive, other Committees and Panels (if any)

6 Presentation: Weston General Hospital Operational Plan for 2005-06 (Mark Gritten, Chief Executive Officer W-s-M General Hospital)

7 Presentation of the Chief Executive Officer –North Somerset Primary Care Trust - G P Out of Hours Contract

8 Presentation: Patient Advice and Liasion Service (Suzie Heller, PALS Service Manager)

9 Report of the Chairman

Work Plan (page 9)

10 Matters for Consideration

A Policy Related Matters

None

B Scrutiny Related Matters

Reports of the Executive Members

10.1 Report of the Executive Member for Housing (page 20)

10.2 Report of the Executive Member for Social Care – verbal update

Report of theHead of Performance Improvement and Personnel

10.3 Update on Ambulance Review in Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire (page 22)

C Performance Related Matters

None

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EXEMPT ITEMS

Should the Panel wish to consider a matter as an Exempt Item, the Panel will be invited to pass the following resolution –

“(1) That the press, public, and officers not required by the Members, the Chief Executive or the Director, to remain during the exempt session, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the ground that its consideration will involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972.”

Also, if appropriate, the following resolution should be passed –

“(2) That members of the Council who are not members of this Panel be invited to remain.”

MOBILE PHONES, PAGERS AND SIMILAR CALLING DEVICES

All persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off these devices in accordance with the Council’s statement concerning disturbance caused by such apparatus. The Chairman may approve an exception to this request in special circumstances.

EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURE

ON HEARING THE ALARM – (a continuous two tone siren)

Leave the room by the nearest exit door. Ensure that windows are closed.

Last person out to close the door.

DO NOT stop to collect personal belongings.

DO NOT use the lifts.

FOLLOW the green and white exit signs and make your way to the assembly point.

DO NOT re-enter the building until authorised to do so by the Fire Authority.

GO TO ASSEMBLY POINT D – THE CAR PARK OPPOSITE MAIN RECEPTION

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