GUIDE – SPLIT CONSULTATION OCCG has split consultation on proposed changes in Oxfordshire health services into two sections, giving the public no opportunity to see how decisions taken now on the Horton General Hospital might be affected by matters (some still not finalised) that will not be consulted on until November at the earliest (according to January CCG minutes). This makes the current consultation devoid of essential information, imperfect, unbalanced and unfair. The split consultation can be seen on almost all pages of the OTP. Readers will see references to ‘we will be considering this in Phase 2’. Phase 1 (current consultation) includes: CCU (critical care unit) to exclude ventilation for very ill patients 2) Stroke care – new protocols 3) Consultant-led maternity and emergency gynaecology permanent removal 4) Special Care Baby Unit permanent removal 5) Adult medicine (36 beds closed) 6) Trauma (loss of 10 of 28 beds) Phase 2 includes 1) 24-hour consultant-led Horton Children’s Ward to become ‘ambulatory’ 2) Horton General Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department to be downgraded 3) Access to GPs 4) Joining up Health and Social Care services (a major element since most social care is in the private sector, not the NHS) 5) Use of technology – in which patients will be consulted via tablets/smart technology instead of in person 6) Mental Health services which are worryingly inadequate 7) Primary care – the cornerstone for the entire plan to move care out of hospitals to home or care homes 8) Replacement of consultant-led maternity units for midwife-only units (home birth in hospital); 9) Future of midwife-only maternity units 10) The future of community hospitals 11) ‘Other ideas’ being developed. The Bucks, Oxon and Berks STP (BOB STP), of which the Oxfordshire Transformation Plan is a major part, was designed with a single consultation on all of the Horton’s acute services (See p89 of the BOB STP). This has been changed between October - January. It seems the OUHT/OCCG felt this would cause an intense outcry, calls for re-involvement of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel that rejected Horton downgrading in 2008 and a long delay to the nationwide STP project. Deputy
GUIDE – SPLIT CONSULTATION OCCG has split consultation on proposed changes in Oxfordshire health services into two sections, giving the public no opportunity to see how decisions taken now on the Horton General Hospital might be affected by matters (some still not finalised) that will not be consulted on until November at the earliest (according to January CCG minutes). This makes the current consultation devoid of essential information, imperfect, unbalanced and unfair. The split consultation can be seen on almost all pages of the OTP. Readers will see references to ‘we will be considering this in Phase 2’. Phase 1 (current consultation) includes: CCU (critical care unit) to exclude ventilation for very ill patients 2) Stroke care – new protocols 3) Consultant-led maternity and emergency gynaecology permanent removal 4) Special Care Baby Unit permanent removal 5) Adult medicine (36 beds closed) 6) Trauma (loss of 10 of 28 beds) Phase 2 includes 1) 24-hour consultant-led Horton Children’s Ward to become ‘ambulatory’ 2) Horton General Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department to be downgraded 3) Access to GPs 4) Joining up Health and Social Care services (a major element since most social care is in the private sector, not the NHS) 5) Use of technology – in which patients will be consulted via tablets/smart technology instead of in person 6) Mental Health services which are worryingly inadequate 7) Primary care – the cornerstone for the entire plan to move care out of hospitals to home or care homes 8) Replacement of consultant-led maternity units for midwife-only units (home birth in hospital); 9) Future of midwife-only maternity units 10) The future of community hospitals 11) ‘Other ideas’ being developed. The Bucks, Oxon and Berks STP (BOB STP), of which the Oxfordshire Transformation Plan is a major part, was designed with a single consultation on all of the Horton’s acute services (See p89 of the BOB STP). This has been changed between October - January. It seems the OUHT/OCCG felt this would cause an intense outcry, calls for re-involvement of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel that rejected Horton downgrading in 2008 and a long delay to the nationwide STP project. Deputy
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