Consultation News

tCI Commentary: Eyebrows will surely be raised in many parts of England when they read about the MP for Surrey SW mounting the barricades to campaign against changes to Haslemere hospital. His defence, of course, is that these are early days – the NHS is doing precisely what the Institute recommends and preparing to involve

Politicians are taking legal advice to see if they can block the proposed closure of a walk-in health centre. The move comes after Hammersmith and Fulham CCG said it would have to close the Parson’s Green walk-in centre to follow national policy from NHS England. Together with NHS Improvement, it ruled that centres which do

More information is needed on the impact of the overnight closure of Grantham A&E on Nottingham and Leicester hospitals before proposals for the future of the service can be published, say councillors. Coun Carl Macey, chair of the health scrutiny panel for Lincolnshire, said people need to know the full impact of the overnight closure

A PROPOSED consultation on budget savings options by Argyll and Bute Council is simply “ticking a box”, a Helensburgh community councillor has said. Norman Muir, convener of Helensburgh Community Council, also said the town was perhaps “the largest cash cow” in the area as the local authority unveiled more than £4million worth of budget savings