Agenda item

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet

Member for Health, Well-Being & Older People, Councillor Chris Best, the

Mayor agreed that:

(1) having reviewed the comments from the Chief Officer of Lewisham Clinical

Commissioning Group (Appendix 12), including his request to reflect on the

£2m reduction in the Public Health budget agreed at Mayor & Cabinet in

September 2015; the decision be confirmed;

(2) the consultation activity as described be noted;

3) the proposals to deliver £800,000 savings from ‘staying healthy’ services

for obesity & physical activity, health improvement, smoking and NHS

Healthchecks be approved;

4) authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Resources and

Regeneration to approve the procurement process from Staying Healthy

services;

5) proposals for health visiting and school nursing services to deliver savings

of £1,714,728 be approved;

6) a competitive dialogue procurement process for tenders for Health

Visiting and Children’s Centres and a competitive tender process for School

Nursing with a proposed timeline, be approved;

7) the proposals for sexual health services outlined be noted and specifically

Mayor and Cabinet (Contracts) 21 October 2015 delegated authority to the

Executive Director for Resources and Regeneration to approve the

procurement process to deliver the proposals for savings of £500,000 from

Sexual Health services with sexual health for young people being included in

the specification for the teenage health and well-being service.

The report was presented by the Cabinet Member for Health, Well-Being &

Older People, Councillor Chris Best, who said the report had been considered

by the Children & Young People Select Committee but not the Healthier

Communities Select Committee. She reported that following consultation the

initial savings on Health Visiting and School Nursing had been reduced by

£267,000.

The Director of Public Health added that since the publication of the report

two petitions relating to the savings had been received. A petition bearing

about 1500 names opposing public health cuts had been received from the

Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign and a petition bearing 24 names had

been received from Lewisham Green Party calling for cuts not to be made to

Community Children’s Nurses.

The Mayor acknowledged that changes to reduce some of the savings had

been made but that deep cuts had to be made as a direct result of central

government’s reductions to public health budgets.

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet

Member for Health, Well-Being & Older People, Councillor Chris Best, the

Mayor, for the reasons set out in the report:

RESOLVED that:

(1) having reviewed the comments from the Chief Officer of Lewisham Clinical

Commissioning Group (Appendix 12), including his request to reflect on the

£2m reduction in the Public Health budget agreed at Mayor & Cabinet in

September 2015; the decision be confirmed;

(2) the consultation activity as described be noted;

(3) the proposals to deliver £800,000 savings from ‘staying healthy’ services

for obesity & physical activity, health improvement, smoking and NHS

Healthchecks be approved;

(4) authority be delegated to the Executive Director for Resources and

Regeneration to approve the procurement process from Staying Healthy

services;

(5) proposals for health visiting and school nursing services to deliver savings

of £1,714,728 be approved;

(6) a competitive dialogue procurement process for tenders for Health

Visiting and Children’s Centres and a competitive tender process for School

Nursing with a proposed timeline, be approved;

(7) the proposals for sexual health services outlined be noted and specifically

that Mayor and Cabinet (Contracts) 21 October 2015 gave delegated authority

to the Executive Director for Resources and Regeneration to approve the

procurement process to deliver the proposals for savings of £500,000 from

Sexual Health services with sexual health for young people being included in

the specification for the teenage health and well-being service.