Issue - meetings

RESOLVED that, subject to the following amendments:-

a)           “Mrs F Witherdew” to read “Mrs F Witherden”; and

b)           Mr Julian Brazier, MP to be shown present as an observer;

the Minutes of the meeting held on 23 March 2007 were correctly recorded and that they be signed by the Chairman.

Other Matters raised relating to the Minutes

(1)    The Overview and Scrutiny Manager responded to Mr Crowther that he had been recorded as attending the visit to the Kent & Canterbury Hospital in the afternoon but as he had not attended the formal meeting of the Committee in the morning he had not been recorded in the Minutes as being present.

(2)    In response to a question from Mr Hibberd about the appropriateness of recording Mr Shortt’s comments in the body of the Minutes, the Overview and Scrutiny Manager explained that the Committee had been responding to a range of issues raised by Mr Shortt on behalf of Concern for Health in East Kent (CHEK).

(3)    Ms Gibb, Chief Executive of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, clarified, in respect of Minute 17 (4), that there were oncologists working across the whole of Kent and Medway; and that the point being made in her comments recorded at Minute 17 (6) was regarding the importance of having the right staff working with the right linear accelerator.