Agenda item - Chairs Communications

23.1    The Chair gave the following communications –

“I’d like to remind everyone that this is a special meeting to look at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection report on Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals Trust (BSUH). There is also a HOSC meeting on October the 19^th where we’ll be looking at Patient Transport, the South East Coast Ambulance Trust (SECAmb) CQC report and the Sussex Review of Stroke Services. We’re meeting today because the BSUH Board have to attend a national event on the 19^th.

Please note that, as this is a special meeting, we won’t be signing-off the minutes of previous meetings or taking public questions.

As BSUH provides services for people in East and West Sussex as well as for Brighton & Hove residents, I invited the Chairs of neighbouring HOSCs to attend today. Cllr Bryan Turner, Chair of West Sussex HASC, was able to make it and I’d like to welcome him to the meeting. I think it’s a really good idea that HOSCs in the region work closely together, particularly where we’re looking to ask very similar questions of NHS bodies.”

23.2    Members also took the opportunity to express their regret on hearing of the recent death of Julian Lee, the former Chair of BSUH.