To receive apologies for absence.  

To receive details of any Member nominated to attend the meeting in place of a Member of the Partnership. 

To receive any declarations of interest by Members in respect of items on this agenda. 

To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting held on 5th July, 2004.  

(i)      To approve the following change to the Constitution:

Under Paragraph 4.4: the words “(f) one shall be the Chairman of the Herefordshire Community Health Council” be replaced with “(f) one shall be the Chair of Primary Care Trust Patient and Public Involvement Forum; and (g) one shall be the Chair of Hereford Hospitals Trust Patient and Public Involvement Forum.  “

The above change in membership reflects the fact that the Herefordshire Community Health Council has been abolished and replaced by two Public/Patient Involvement Forums.  Ms A. Stokes (Chair of PCT PPI Forum) and Ms J. Boys (Chair of HHT PPI Forum) will be welcomed onto the Partnership as a result. 

(ii)     To note that further changes to the Constitution will be necessary in due course to reflect other membership issues, and changes to the structure and modus operandi of the constituent Health organisations. 

To note the attached report of the Assistant Director of IMPACT in respect of items dealt with by the Joint Health & Care Commissioning Group on 13th September 2004.  (Introduction by Jean Howard). 

Report to follow. 

• Substance Misuse: A Community Policing Perspective.  To receive a presentation from Chief Inspector Ivan Powell, Police representative on the Herefordshire Community Safety and Drug Partnership. 

• Drugs and the National Curriculum.  To receive the attached report by Liam Kernan, Drug Education Development Officer, LEA. 

• Drug Abuse: The Health Issues.  To receive a presentation from Mark Hemming, PCT Locality Manager. 

• Herefordshire Alcohol Strategy: Progress and Challenges.  To receive the attached report and extract from the Hereford Alcohol Strategy 2003-6, and a presentation from Brendan Sheehy, Community Alcohol Services Coordinator. 

To consider the attached report on the priority areas for joint working, led by the Health and Care Partnership Board and supported by the IMPACT team in 2004/5, and to agree a programme of work. 

To consider any items of urgent business. 

To note that the next meeting of the Health and Care Partnership is scheduled to take place at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday 13th January, 2004, at Brockington, 35 Hafod Road, Hereford. 

Future provisional meeting dates are as follows:

11th April, 2005

14th July, 2005

13th October, 2005

19th January 2006