Minute Book for local scrutiny and campaigns
For health scrutiny councillors and officers, Healthwatch staff and volunteers, and patient and campaign groups. Keep up with the NHS bodies in your area without checking each website.
What you can do with it
- Follow your local trusts, health board or integrated care board for free, and see their new papers together.
- Prepare for a scrutiny meeting by reading what the board itself was told.
- Keep a record of what decision makers said in public, with dates and pages.
- Watch for news of a service you care about, such as a maternity unit or a community hospital.
Searches to try
- reconfiguration
Plans to change where and how services are provided.
- "public consultation"
Consultations on changes to local services.
- "maternity unit"
Papers about maternity units: staffing, safety and changes.
- "community hospital"
Beds, services and plans for community hospitals.
Searching is free, with no account. Results come from the papers we hold, and we don’t hold every organisation’s papers for every year. See which years we hold for each organisation.
What helps most
Follow organisations
Follow any organisation from its page, free and with no limit. Your Alerts page lists its new papers and the coroners’ reports sent to it, newest first. A weekly email tells you what’s new, or a daily one if you prefer.
Watched phrases
Watch a phrase everywhere, in one nation or at one organisation. When new papers or coroners’ reports mention it, we email you the passage with a link to the source.
Draft and approved minutes compared
Minutes are often published before the board approves them. We check again after 3 days, a week and a month, and show what changed in the approved version.
Coroners’ reports and the 56-day tracker
Prevention of Future Deaths reports from judiciary.uk, with who each was sent to. Recipients have 56 days to respond: for each one we show the deadline and whether a response is published on judiciary.uk.
The plan that suits you: Free
Free
Searching, following organisations and one weekly watched phrase in the organisations you follow are free. No card needed.
- Open our copy of 3 documents a month, where the publisher allows it
- 1 watched phrase, emailed weekly, in the organisations you follow
- Following organisations, with no limit
If you need more watched phrases, or to save what you find to folders, Pro adds them. Pro: £12 a month or £120 a year.
Compare every planStart with the organisations you watch
Create a free account, then follow an organisation from its page. No card needed, and a link to every original is always free.