DECISION

1.    To approve the recommendation for a direct award to the Tower Hamlets GP Care Group for the delivery of the Public Health NIS services.

2.    To authorise the Director of Public Health, after consultation with the Interim Corporate Director, Governance, to execute and enter into all necessary agreements for a three year period.

3.    To note that funding for the Public Health NIS Services will be met within the Public Health Grants budgets for the next three years.

Action by:

CORPORATE DIRECTOR, HEALTH, ADULTS AND COMMUNITY SERVICES (D. RADLEY)

(Drugs and Alcohol Action Team Co-ordinator (R. Sadegh)

(Associate Director of Public Health (C. Lovitt)

Councillor Amy Whitelock Gibbs, Cabinet Member for Health and Adults Services, introduced the report. She explained that as well as the core GP services commissioned by NHS England, the Council also provided some funding to GPs for specific enhanced services. The report provided details on the services to be provided. There was to be a direct contract award as only GPs could provide these services.

The Mayor agreed the recommendations as set out in the report.

RESOLVED

1.    To approve the recommendation for a direct award to the Tower Hamlets GP Care Group for the delivery of the Public Health NIS services.

2.    To authorise the Director of Public Health, after consultation with the Interim Corporate Director, Governance, to execute and enter into all necessary agreements for a three year period.

3.    To note that funding for the Public Health NIS Services will be met within the Public Health Grants budgets for the next three years.