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A late request for a public
question from Ray Tostevin, Quicksilver Community Group was
received, and the chair allowed him to speak.
 
Ray Tostevin’s
Question:
NHS Somerset ICB have voted
unanimously to CLOSE the Yeovil HASU, despite widespread and
continuing opposition from the public, patient groups, and NHS
staff.  At their decision making meeting on 25 January, ICB
members also agreed for £1.8million of capital funding from
Somerset, to be spent creating a new HASU at Dorset County Hospital
in Dorchester. Surely the ICB should be investing to KEEP the
Yeovil HASU, NOT close it? This committee expressed serious concerns at the ICB proposals when you
met in December. The ICB appear to have ignored those concerns.
Will this committee now approach the Secretary of State, using new
powers that took effect last week,  to officially call in the
NHS Somerset stroke reconfiguration plans?
 
The committee resolved to write
to the Secretary of State to ask them to use their powers under the
Health And Care Act 2022 to intervene in the NHS Somerset stroke
reconfiguration plan.