The Chair announced that engagement work was being undertaken by the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board (ICB) to re-procure its Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) contract.  The ICB was currently undertaking a six-week programme of engagement talking to current service users and their families/carers to learn more about how to improve their experience with transport services in BOB, this had been launched in September and had closed on 27 October 2023. Further information was available on the BOB ICB online engagement website as follows: https://yourvoicebob-icb.uk.engagementhq.com/non-emergency-patient-transport-servces-in-bob

The Chair noted that it was Black History Month and saluted all black women in the Borough and the Council.