Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Scrutinising healthcare

One of the functions of the county council is to lead the scrutiny of healthcare. There are powers of examination and responsibilities of finance and management. 

Today we had a meeting of councillors to discuss what we might analyse and study and how - it all sounds simple but of course it never is and we threw some ideas around and then meet formally on Monday.

Healthcare is the number one issue facing us all and it’s hard to know where to start.

For my part I am pushing forwards issues round lessons from the Pandemic, about dentistry and about the traffic light system of basic health delivery. I have also asked for a bespoke report on the free provision of HIV retrovirals in Derbyshire...

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