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Calderdale and Kirklees Councils drag their feet about whether NHS bosses’ plans are fit for purpose

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On 22nd September 2014, Calderdale and Kirklees Councils’ Joint Health Scrutiny Committee (JHSC) started scrutinising the local NHS commissioners’ proposals for chopping and changing hospital and community based health services. These proposals are known as Right Care Right Place Right Time.

The JHSC has decided that, should the options outlined in the Right Care Right Place Right Time Strategic Outline Case be developed into formal proposals, they would constitute a substantial development and variation to the health service.

The JHSC has a duty to scrutinise such substantial proposals and their impact on the people of Calderdale and Huddersfield, by requiring local NHS bodies to consult with them. Continue reading →

Calderdale NHS Commissioners plan to scrap public consultation on proposed A&E cuts and new community care system

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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS commissioners are to ask their Governing Bodies for permission to shelve the scheduled public consultation on the so-called “Right Care Right Time Right Place” NHS shakeup.

This shakeup includes the likely closure of Calderdale Royal Hospital A&E and at least 360 of its 450 beds.

Overall, at least 200 acute hospital beds across both CRH and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary would be cut and replaced with a new system of care in the community that is based on the model used by the American private health care company Kaiser Permanente. Continue reading →

Want an explanation of NHS Commissioners’ plans to scrap public consultation on NHS shakeup plans? You could email your ward councillors

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Here is the email I’ve sent to my ward Councillors (below). Please feel free to use it as a template, if you’d like the Adults Health and Social Care Scrutiny Panel to find out why Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group wants to avoid public consultation on the “Right Care” shakeup of our NHS and social care services. Continue reading →

Public to be denied sight of commercially confidential plans for Calderdale and Huddersfield hospitals

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Thanks to Calderdale 38 Degrees NHS Campaign Group asking a question at Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group’s Governing Body meeting on 12 June 2014, we now know that the public will be kept in the dark about next stage of planning the NHS and social care shake up in Calderdale and Huddersfield.

Planning document “will be held securely” Continue reading →

Questions for Calderdale & Huddersfield hospitals and community care consultation drop ins

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Thanks to everyone who came up with ideas for questions they’d like the Clinical Commissioning Groups to answer at their forthcoming drop in sessions. The first drop in is today, May 28th, at Salendine Nook YMCA. The questions are on the leaflet, below, page 2.

If you’re going to a drop in and would like to print off the leaflet and take it with you, or even take extra copies to hand out to other people there, you are very welcome, that’s what they’re for. Continue reading →