Brent Council Health Disappointment

After complaints at Brent Council's supine attitudes to cuts in the NHS, the Council finally debated it and came up with a motion ending thus:

[Brent Council will]... "work with Brent’s Members of Parliament, to voice our opposition to any future arrangements in which alterations to local NHS services threaten the safety of patients or residents alike, and re- affirm the need for health services to put people at the heart of any future plans."

That is about as a bland a message as I can imagine. Nothing on the Council using its own powers of Scrutiny or as a partner of the NHS.  Nothing about the use of public health powers or areas of the Council (e.g. libraries) or powers of the Council (e.g. licensing) to help shape public health outcomes.  Just voicing opposition.