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Health and Social Security - Approved Panel Minutes - 19 February 2015

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Health and Social Security Scrutiny Panel

Record of Meeting

Date: 19th February 2015

 

Present

Deputy R. Renouf , Chairman Deputy G. Southern , Vice-Chairman Deputy T. McDonald

Apologies

 

Absent

 

In attendance

Deputy S. Pinel, Minister for Social Security

Mr I. Burns, Interim Chief Officer

Mrs S. Duhamel, Policy and Strategy Director, Social Security Ms K. Morel , Policy Principal, Social Security Department

Miss K. Boydens , Scrutiny Officer Miss S. McKee , Scrutiny Officer

 

Ref Back

Agenda matter

Action

 

1.  Records of Meetings

The Panel noted and approved the record of its meeting held on 9th February 2015.

 

12/02/15 Item 4

517/1/1(6)

2.  Quarterly Hearing with the Minister for Social Security

The Panel received the Minister for Social Security and her officers for a quarterly public hearing.

 

16/02/15 Item 1

517/30

3.  Respite Care for Adults

The  Panel  agreed  to  defer  discussing  its  adult  respite  review  until Friday 20th February.

 

12/02/15 Item 5

517/1/1(4)

4.  Sex Discrimination Regulations

The Panel noted that it received a briefing on the sex discrimination regulations on 18th February. It agreed that once the Social Security Department had completed its consultation on the regulations, it would request the responses with a view to lodging a Comments paper prior to the debate.

KB/SM

12/02/15 Item 3

517/1/1(3)

5.  UK Patient Treatment

The  Panel  recalled  that  it  had  received  a  briefing  on  the  Health Department's Patient Travel Policy on 12th February. It discussed the policy and requested the officers to obtain travel policies from other jurisdictions such as Guernsey and the Isle of Wight. The Panel agreed that once these were obtained, the matter would be discussed at its next meeting.

KB/SM

517/1/1(3)

6.  Mental Health Legislation

The Panel noted that an invitation had been received by the Health

 

 

 

Department to brief the Panel on the forthcoming mental health laws. The Panel agreed that a briefing would be beneficial and requested the officer  to  contact  the  lead  officer  from  the  Department  in  the  first instance.

SM

 

7.  Future Meetings

The Panel noted that its next scheduled meeting would take place on 5th March at 9:30am in the Le Capelain room, States Building.