§ 76. Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will issue instructions to ensure that the minutes of meetings held by district management teams are sent to the community health council for their district.
§ Dr. OwenThe relationship of district management teams to community health councils is not one that can easily be dictated centrally by formal instructions. My Department has asked area health authorities and district management teams to respond promptly to requests for information from community health councils and we expect district management teams to work in close relationship with the councils. One of the decisions we took to strengthen community health councils was that district management team spokesmen should attend council meetings when invited and answer questions in public session. Beyond this, the means by which councils are kept informed of the activities and deliberations of their district management teams are, in our view, best left for local agreement.