Urgent Care Centre
- Consultation feedback
Minutes:
Deborah Fellowes, Scrutiny Manager, reported that the views expressed by the Commission on the Urgent Care Centre proposal had been incorporated into the full Council consultation response and submitted to the CCG.
The Commission’s views and those of the Cabinet had been very similar with issues around access, car parking and transportation identified. However, the Commission had opposed the proposal and the Cabinet had supported it so the response submitted had been that the Council supported the proposal.
It was clear that there were some common issues had arisen from the consultation regarding accessibility to the new facility.
It was key now to ensure that sufficient weight had been given to the comments made and that the CCG had addressed the issues.
Discussion ensued on the consultation feedback with the following issues raised:-
- The CCG had investigated available bus routes to the proposed facility but it would depend upon which side of the Borough you lived
- Although the same number of car park spaces at the present location were guaranteed, there was already a parking problem at the Hospital without adding to it
- A number of organisations had raised queries which had not been answered as to the financial model. The question of whether the investment was financially sound and the best use of funds given the issues the Hospital had
- The consultation report had given a guarantee that patients would be seen in X minutes but had not said what “X” was. This was particularly relevant given the recent problems at the Walk in Centre when it had turned people away during the last 3 months as it could not cope with demand
- Should the Working Group reconvene to look at the consultation report?
Resolved:- That the members of the working group meet again to go through the published report and raise any issues of concern within the Council.