Issue - meetings

1.         Ms Peachey introduced the report and explained that the commissioning of laboratory services for Chlamydia screening testing would transfer from being a PCT to a County Council responsibility in April 2013.  Chlamydia testing had recently taken on a higher priority, and this fact, and the imminent transfer of responsibility, offered an ideal opportunity to optimise the cost effectiveness of the service.  An appraisal of the three available options – to make no change, to offer testing in a partnership, or to go out to tender - is set out in the report.

2.         Members raised no comment or question on the content of the report.

3.         RESOLVED that the decision to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, to put out to tender the Chlamydia screening testing service, with the potential for savings made being re-invested in the service, be endorsed.