Graham Stuart has welcomed Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to refer the decision to close the Minor Injuries Units (MIUs) at Hornsea and Withernsea to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP).
The panel, an advisory non-departmental public health body, specialise in reviewing cases involving changes to NHS services.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has today vowed to continue his campaign to save the community beds and Minor Injuries Units (MIUs) in Holderness, after the City Health Care Partnership announced that new admissions to the community beds at Withernsea Community Hospital will stop with immediate effect.
The twelve community beds, which cater for a range of patients including those in palliative and rehabilitative care, will no longer accept new patients after this latest blow to local residents.
Following the announcement by the East Riding of Yorkshire CCG in March 2016 that it had plans to close the MIU units in Hornsea and Withernsea, Graham Stuart MP, Member of Parliament for Beverley & Holderness launched a hard-hitting campaign to stop the CCG from closing MIU units in Hornsea and Withernsea, supported by the Hornsea League of Friends, the Withernsea and District Health Forum, and the Holderness Health Alliance.
The survey conducted by the CCG as part of its consultation found very limited public support for the package of proposals, despite a number of very leading questions. In Holderness 90% of people did not agree with the question asking whether they would be prepared to travel further to visit an Urgent Care Centre.
Members of the Labour Party in Beverley say MP Graham Stuart is in denial over the governments intentions to sell off the NHS to their business friends.
Their comments come after they released statement in response to plans to sell part of the NHS which Labour say will benefit private sector at tax payers expense.
Local campaigners will make a last ditch appeal to the East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group, to reverse its decision to close Hornsea MIU, when it meets on Tuesday.
Proposals to be considered at the meeting include the closure of the seaside town’s Minor Injuries Unit, a move which has been approved in spite of a 10,000 signature petition and overwhelming local opposition.
Campaigners are calling upon the East Riding of Yorkshire Council to intervene directly in the takeover of failing private care homes in the area.
The call comes following the closure or planned closure of three Care homes in the area.
Beverley and Holderness Conservatives held their Annual President’s Dinner at the Tickton Grange Hotel. Guest Speaker for the evening was The Right Hon Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health.
Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart raised the quality of emergency care available at the Hull Royal Infirmary (HRI) at a briefing this week
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness is delighted that the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, will be in Yorkshire as part of a series of regional visits ahead…
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