The Terms of reference for the
Tees Valley Joint Health Scrutiny Committee are :-
·
To facilitate the exchange of information about
planned health scrutiny work and to share information and outcomes
from local health scrutiny reviews;
·
To consider proposals for scrutiny of regional or
specialist health services in order to ensure that the value of
proposed health scrutiny exercises is not compromised by lack of
input from appropriate sources and that the NHS is not
over-burdened by similar reviews taking place in a short space of
time.
The aims of the Joint Health
Scrutiny are:-
·
to improve the health of local people and to tackle
health inequalities;
·
ensuring that people’s views and wishes about
health and health services are identified and integrated into plans
and services that achieve local health improvements;
·
scrutinising whether all parts of the community are
able to access health services and whether the outcomes of health
services are equally good for all sections of the
community.