Health Scrutiny Joint Committee - Hartlepool Borough Council
Health Scrutiny Joint Committee - Hartlepool Borough Council Health Scrutiny Joint Committee - Hartlepool Borough Council
Appendix C Views of Hartlepool’s Audit and Governance Committee The Audit and Governance Committee:- 1) do not support any further transfer of services from the University Hospital of Hartlepool; 2) support the concerns of local people in the town; 3) consider the reasons for the recommendation to transfer medical and critical care services to North Tees is as a result of lack of long term strategic planning by North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust (NTHFT); 4) felt that the NTHFT representatives present at the Audit and Governance Committee on 31 May 2013 failed to answer Members questions satisfactorily and had not complied with the statutory scrutiny consultative requirements; 5) strongly encouraged Members of the public to participate in the consultation process; 6) supported a recommendation from the Leader of Hartlepool Borough Council which specified that following the completion of this consultation exercise Hartlepool’s Health and Wellbeing Board and the Council as a whole should consider the working relationship with NTHFT. In addition it was suggested that opportunities to engage with others to achieve better clinical outcomes be explored as well as the need to examine quality surveillance groups and promote the choice agenda. It was also suggested that the Council explore the composition of the Health and Wellbeing Board to assist when formulating future commissioning intentions and that all possible options be considered, including pooling resources with an alternative hospital trust to ensure aspirations for locally delivered services were accessible by all; 7) questioned whether the executive management of NTHFT was competent given the indication in the presentation that clinicians had reported concerns in relation to safety of services and sought clarification as to how the Trust had allowed services to reach an unsafe level; 8) with regard to difficulties recruiting and retaining medical staff to support both sites, raised concerns as to why such issues were not identified in the long term strategy to enable services to remain sustainable; 9) raised concerns about the lack of investment in Hartlepool hospital as well as the risks associated with an increase in travel times for patients travelling to North Tees as opposed to Hartlepool; 10) are concerned that the public consultation document does not facilitate patient choice;
Appendix C 11) raised concerns about capacity at North Tees, as previous reports suggest that North Tees site does not have sufficient capacity to deal with changes in services therefore why is there not an option in the consultation to choose to have such services in Hartlepool; 12) raised concerns that the National Clinical Advisory Team (NCAT) consultation process was inadequate and unfair highlighting that the former Health Scrutiny Forum Chair had been excluded from engagement.
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Appendix C<br />
11) raised concerns about capacity at North Tees, as previous reports<br />
suggest that North Tees site does not have sufficient capacity to deal<br />
with changes in services therefore why is there not an option in the<br />
consultation to choose to have such services in <strong>Hartlepool</strong>;<br />
12) raised concerns that the National Clinical Advisory Team (NCAT)<br />
consultation process was inadequate and unfair highlighting that the<br />
former <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Scrutiny</strong> Forum Chair had been excluded from<br />
engagement.
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