A MAJOR shake-up of a council health committee has been called for after it emerged councillors failed to attend its meetings. The low attendance rate at the Dudley’s Health and Wellbeing board – which helps coordinate work with the NHS, hospitals and GPs – has triggered a call for change. But the board’s chairman, Councillor Nicolas Barlow, has stressed the authority’s Covid response plans haven’t been affected by the lack of numbers. Speaking at a recent meeting of the authority’s Overview and Scrutiny Management Board, Cllr David Tyler claimed high absenteeism had slowed efforts to improve health.