Extraordinary NHS meeting over who will run services
HEALTH chiefs are poised to make a major decision on the future of the NHS in Gloucestershire today.
The board of NHS Gloucestershire will hold an extraordinary meeting, at Sanger House on Gloucester Business Park, to decide whether community health services will be run by an NHS Trust, or opened up to bids from the private sector.
It marks a decisive moment in campaigners' battle to keep the county's community hospitals, and health services in the NHS.
Earlier plans to transfer Gloucestershire's community hospitals, clinics and health services to a "social enterprise" were halted during an eleventh hour legal challenge by retired Stroud railway worker Michael Lloyd.
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Since then the overwhelming majority of respondents in a consultation expressed a preference for the establishment of a new NHS trust. The meeting today will see a final decision made.
Comments
by SELINA30
Monday, October 15 2012, 1:48PM
“Great news. This victory will encourage all those who are campaigning against government privatisation.”
by Bishipeeps
Monday, October 15 2012, 1:36PM
“We won - power to the people! No privitisation or social enterprise, it stays in the NHS. The Tories and Labour better think again about dismantling OUR NHS.”
by Lecorche
Monday, October 15 2012, 10:35AM
“I hope that people are considered more important than profits.”
by SandraPee
Monday, October 15 2012, 9:30AM
“I hope they listen to the views of the general public ......... it will speak volumes if they don't .”