Issue - meetings

Report of Strategic Director Environment & Community

Summary

To consider the outcome of the Better Healthcare Programme, the decisions of the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust, plus the future of the Community Partnership Forum.

Recommendations

The Executive is recommended to:

(1)               Endorse the outcome of the process in clarifying and confirming the future of paediatric, anaesthetic and obstetric services at the Horton GeneralHospital;

(2)               Congratulate the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust in developing sustainable service proposals for the future;

(3)               Encourage the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust to continue to investigate further ideas to improve services at the Horton GeneralHospital and the way the hospital works with the providers of healthcare;

(4)               Continue to support the work of the Community Partnership Forum during the critical implementation phase, and;

(5)               Urge the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust to build on the successful Community Partnership Forum model as a means of ongoing community engagement for local healthcare provision.

Recommendations Approved

The Strategic Director Environment & Community submitted a report to consider the outcome of the Better Healthcare Programme, the decisions of the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust, plus the future of the Community Partnership Forum.

Resolved

(1)               That the outcome of the process in clarifying and confirming the future of paediatric, anaesthetic and obstetric services at the Horton GeneralHospital be endorsed.

(2)               That the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust be congratulated in developing sustainable service proposals for the future.

(3)               That  the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust be encouraged to continue to investigate further ideas to improve services at the Horton GeneralHospital and the way the hospital works with the providers of healthcare.

(4)               That the Council continue to support the work of the Community Partnership Forum during the critical implementation phase.

(5)               That the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust be urged to build on the successful Community Partnership Forum model as a means of ongoing community engagement for local healthcare provision.

Reasons

The services provided at the Horton General Hospital (HGH) have been under some threat for many years. The latest proposals to downgrade paediatric and obstetric services have been the subject of Secretary of State intervention and have for the last two years been the subject of review in order to find alternative service models.