It's about time that people on the island were fully aware of the threat to their health and wellbeing. Especially for the older and more vulnerable Islanders.
The Conservative Government have just announced their latest approach to helping the population. Coordinating social and health care to keep people back in their homes and communities
The Island Conservative Council though has just destroyed a successful island scheme of Local Area Coordinators that has kept many people at home and out of expensive hospital beds. This saves small amounts of money from March this year but with no real consultation, and over riding its own Scrutiny Committee recommendations.
The local health Authority tell the Public there are options to move lots or some of the acute and specialist care off island. They ignore the message from the public that this is too damaging to the health and pockets of Islanders and decide on a drastic option to transfer major facilities to the mainland. Without an agreement with hard pressed local mainland NHS and against the wishes of the key Council Committee who castigated the approach and ineffectiveness.
The Health Authority's public consultation looks like a figleaf to justify their already planned decision, and showcases why democratic oversight is so important.
The local non party Save the NHS campaign and concerned locals keep raising these issues. While from my viewpoint I hope that the Lib Dem focus on local pressure and national pragmatic push can alleviate some of the damaging effects of the current Conservative Government and Council.
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