The Chair will introduce the report on behalf of the former Chair of the Panel, Cllr Julie McManus.The report provided an overview of the Health and Care Performance Panel meeting held on 11 March 2019 and provided feedback to members of the Adult Care and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee around key discussions and areas of interest resulting from the meeting.

The report included updates on the following key items, namely:

Wirral Community Trust – recording assurance that the Trust were making sufficient progress in developing quality improvement measures across the organisation following its CQC inspection;

Wirral University Teaching Hospital – update from the Director of Quality and Governance on progress made at the Trust relating to its CQC Improvement and Action Plan – an item also considered earlier in this Committee meeting (Minute 6 refers); and

Options for improving performance and contract compliance in Care Homes and review of Health and Care providers – a matter for consideration by the Committee under it’s work programme - in terms of a revisit of past recommendations.

A Member suggested that the Health and Care Panel also consider reviewing / revisiting plans to address ‘winter pressures’ on services. The Chair concurred, noting that Members hadn’t yet received an update on this, as had initially been promised when the issue had been raised before.

Resolved – That the contents of the report of the Health and Care Performance Panel.