The Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee were scheduled to meet on 4 November 2025 to discuss the St Pancras Hospital Transformation Programme, the Screening and Prevention Panel, and the Camden Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board. The committee was also scheduled to review its work programme and action tracker, and to receive an update from the Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care.

Camden Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board Annual Report

The committee was scheduled to review the Camden Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board (SAPB) Annual Report 2024-2025. The SAPB is a statutory body that includes the local authority, police, and the Clinical Commissioning Group, as well as representatives from voluntary sector organisations, the London Fire Brigade, probation services, Camden & Islington Mental Health Trust, and representatives from the major hospitals in Camden.

The report is a statutory requirement under Section 43(5) and Schedule 2 of the Care Act 2014, and details the work undertaken over the past year and the achievements of its partner agencies. The report outlines the aims, objectives and progress made by the partnership, reflecting on challenges faced and lessons learned. According to the report, the SAPB aims to:

• Make Camden a place where adults can live safely and free from abuse and neglect
• Embed the six safeguarding principles: Empowerment, Prevention, Proportionality, Protection, Partnership, and Accountability
• Amplify the voices of people with lived experience and ensure safeguarding is person-centred and inclusive

The report also highlights a number of challenges faced, including the increasing complexity of safeguarding concerns, and ensuring safeguarding outcomes are fully met amid systemic barriers such as housing and immigration.

The SAPB's 2025–2026 Delivery Plan sets out priorities to:

• Put people at the centre of safeguarding
• Spot risks early and prevent harm
• Support people through life changes
• Work better together
• Learn and improve continuously

Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee Screening and Prevention Panel Update

The committee was scheduled to discuss an update to the recommendations of the Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee's Screening and Prevention Panel. The panel was established in June 2023 to review screening and prevention programmes in Camden.

The report includes the latest data on cancer screening coverage in Camden, which shows that breast screening coverage has increased by 7% and bowel screening coverage has increased by 3% over the last 12-month period. Cervical screening coverage has remained broadly flat.

The report also provides an update on the Camden Cancer Screening Group, which was established in January 2025 to bring together partners from across the council and the wider health system to coordinate activity across several areas, including data, communications, targeted community engagement, and primary care engagement.

Additionally, the report discusses efforts to improve cancer screening uptake in people with learning disabilities, noting a 21.6% increase in breast cancer screening uptake for people with learning disabilities in Camden between April 2024 and August 2025.

The report also provides an update on the introduction of the NHS Lung Cancer Screening programme, noting that uptake of lung cancer screening in Camden is currently 47.2%, which is lower than the North Central London average of 49.1% and 50.2% nationally.

St Pancras Hospital Transformation Programme

The committee was scheduled to discuss the NHS's approach to engagement with patients, service users, their carers, and wider stakeholders around the St Pancras Hospital Transformation Programme.

The report states that several NHS organisations run services which are proposed to move off the St Pancras Hospital site as part of the transformation programme. The services are commissioned by NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB), which is also a partner in the programme.

The report sets out how the insights from engagement are having tangible and meaningful impacts on decision-making.

The report notes that the transformation programme has engagement at its core and presents opportunities at new locations for people who use services, carers and wider groups who are being engaged and listened to throughout the programme.

The report also notes that the St Pancras Hospital Transformation Programme will evolve over time with further engagement activity planned, and that the programme is committed to meaningful and ongoing engagement and involvement in advance of proposed moves and afterwards to ensure that any early challenges are resolved swiftly and with patient and service user input.

The report includes details of engagement and involvement with patients, service users, and carers in relation to the following services:

• Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) long term conditions services, including the Camden community heart failure service, Camden COPD and home oxygen service, Camden podiatry service and surgical procedures, and Camden community diabetes service, which are moving to the Peckwater Centre.
• North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) services, including the neurodevelopmental disorders service, which is proposed to move to the Peckwater Centre, the psychodynamic psychotherapy service, which is proposed to move to the Arts Building, and the Rivers Crisis House, which is proposed to move to Daleham Gardens.
• Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (RFL) dialysis and renal outpatient services, which are expected to move off the St Pancras Hospital site in 2027, with 125 Finchley Road identified as the preferred location for the new dialysis unit.

Cabinet Member Update

Councillor Anna Wright, Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adult Social Care, was scheduled to provide an update on key pieces of work, highlighting successes and identifying challenges and opportunities in the coming months. The update was scheduled to include information on:

• Safeguarding, including the work of the Camden Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board, the Mental Health Social Work redesign, and the London Modern Slavery Buddying Pilot.
• Service Pressures, including the increasing number of people requesting support from Adult Social Care and delays in progressing initial assessments.
• Who Cares? A Camden Conversation about Adult Social Care, a borough-wide online conversation about adult social care.
• The Camden all-age Autism Strategy.
• Community Equipment, following the liquidation of NRS Healthcare.
• The Healthy Weight Acceleration Plan.
• Raise Camden, Camden's child health equity programme.
• New short-term priorities for the Health and Wellbeing Board.
• The Alcohol Strategy 2025–2030.
• The Suicide Prevention Partnership.
• The Teeth Brushing investment trial.
• The Health Checks in workplace settings trial investment.

Work Programme and Action Tracker

The committee was scheduled to review its work programme for 2025-26 and track actions from previous meetings.