Issue - meetings

To receive a presentation by Islington Primary Care Trust (PCT) and the Whittington Hospital.

Received the report on the Consultation on Urgent Care in Islington introduced by Anna Stewart from Islington Primary Care Trust.

The following was noted in response to questions and discussions:

1.         The main recommendation to tender for an Urgent Care Centre in Islington, to be based at the Whittington Hospital was objected to by OSC Members who felt that the Whittington Hospital should be given the contract.

2.         Siobhan Harrington from the Whittington Primary Care Trust (PCT) also attended the meeting and expressed that Whittington Hospital supported the strategy as a whole except for the decision to tender for an Urgent Care Centre.  This was thought to be a re-design of old services and would be a risk to the PCT in the current economic climate.  Committee Members supported this view.

3.         More detailed consultation with stakeholders would take place once an overall strategy had been drafted and whilst the decision to tender for the Urgent Care Centre was not definite the rearrangement of services was.

4.         The Chair would draft a response to the Islington Urgent Care consultation conducted by Islington PCT expressing the Committee’s concern at the lack of consultation with Haringey residents, opposition to the establishment of a physically separate Urgent Care Centre on the Whittington site & requesting further information on the overall potential impact of the proposals.  This would be circulated to OSC members for their input and copied to Siobhan Harrington.

RESOLVED

That the consultation document be noted.