Decision details

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.