There is a health road-show travelling around Cornwall in February and March aiming to explain the proposed changes to the way health services are to be delivered in the future and to obtain public feedback on those changes.
The nearest road-show to St Dominick is at Liskeard Town Hall on 31st Mar 2pm until 3.30pm.
Cornwall NHS say:
'There is a lot going on in the NHS at the moment and this is your chance to find out what’s happening and have your say.
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are being abolished – it is proposed GPs, working in commissioning consortia, will take on most of the work, the local authority will take responsibility for public health and the rest will go to a new National Commissioning Board.
At the same time this is happening the PCT has to find a new home for its provider arm – Community Health Services (CHS).
It’s the job of the Primary Care Trust Board to choose the best new home for CHS and the current proposal is for adult services to be transferred into a social enterprise. Community hospitals will remain under NHS ownership. Patients will continue to get NHS care, free at the point of delivery.
The Board’s view is that a social enterprise is the best option to safeguard the future of adult community health services because:
· It will have its sole focus on the delivery of high quality community services;
· It is supported by GPs and will help to drive integration of health and social care for the benefit of patients;
· It will maintain current services and further develop them;
· It will protect transferring NHS staff terms and conditions; and
· It will support our plan to provide more care closer to home, which is what we know patients want.
The NHS is also seeking to change the way healthcare is delivered in three important ways:
· By joining together with Cornwall Council to create health and social care hubs – which will mean less confusion, less duplication and safer care.
· By asking senior clinicians to find efficiencies, improve quality, harness innovation and improve productivity in order to reinvest savings in frontline care. This programme, Your NHS: Closer to you, will enable more people to be cared for closer to, and in some cases in, their own homes.
· By investing more in the prevention of ill health and encouraging more healthy lifestyles.
By talking to local people about all these changes, we can make sure we develop things to suit your needs as much as possible.
