A special briefing session for councillors and members of the public on the Primary Care Trust’s Community Services Strategy consultation process will happen after a full council meeting at Lyndhurst on Monday June 13.
John Richards, chief executive of the PCT, will attend the meeting along with other PCT officers to give an outline of the forthcoming public consultation process.
The PCT briefing will be the last item on the agenda of an extraordinary council meeting called to discuss the council’s Performance Plan, at the Lyndhurst Park Hotel at 6.30pm. The venue has been moved from the council chamber at Appletree Court because of anticipated public demand.
“The purpose of this part of the meeting is to inform councillors of the primary care trust’s forthcoming consultations on the delivery of services in the New Forest with particular regard to Lymington Hospital and other community hospitals within the New Forest,” said Cllr Mel Kendal, leader of New Forest District Council.
“An outline will be given of the consultation process as well as the two potential models of the inevitable changes in health service delivery.
“Further details of these models will become available during the course of the consultation process over the months ahead, but it is important that council members understand the objectives involved so that they can subsequently form views on the best way in which the district council as partners in the delivery of health services can frame their own policies and expenditure.
“Clearly as stakeholders, we will wish to give our views as well, so that the PCT may take these into account in framing its final decisions when that stage of the process is reached.
The district council’s cabinet will frame the ultimate response for council and the meeting on June 13 will enable us, and the public, to understand more fully the issues involved,” he said. |
