Concerns have been raised over the Sustainability and Transformation Plans which are to affect local NHS services in North East London next month.
Councillor Jonathan McShane from Hackney Council has voiced concerns over the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP). STPs are proposals where health organisations in a region agree how they can provide more joined-up services with less money. But Councillor McShane, Cabinet Member for Health, Social Care and Devolution, said ‘we won’t accept any proposal that takes vital funds away from Hackney to plug gaps in other parts of North East London’ and expressed concern over a lack of involvement with democratically elected local authorities, given that they organise deliver the public health and adult social care services fundamental to helping prevent ill-health and supporting independent.
Leader of Barnet Council, Councillor Richard Cornelius, said: ‘Local politicians are concerned that the process of developing this proposal has not yet involved them or taken into account the views of Barnet people’. He added ‘there needs to be a consensus with councils as it directly affects local services and the health and well-being of our residents. Over the coming weeks we will be seeking residents’ views before presenting the findings to Policy and Resources Committee in December.’
NHS England’s website claims that the aims of the STPs is to ‘help ensure health and care services are built around the needs of local populations…showing how local services will evolve and become sustainable over the next five years’.
However, Dr Paul Hobday, leader of the National Health Action Party, is critical of NHS England’s proposals more generally, saying ‘According to the STPs, to make the NHS affordable and sustainable we, the public, must get used to longer ambulance journeys for emergency care, longer waiting times for treatment and the possibility of paying extra to be seen by a doctor’. He has called for every plan to be published ‘without delay’.
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Concerns have been raised over the Sustainability and Transformation Plans which are to affect local NHS services in North East London next month.
Councillor Jonathan McShane from Hackney Council has voiced concerns over the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP). STPs are proposals where health organisations in a region agree how they can provide more joined-up services with less money. But Councillor McShane, Cabinet Member for Health, Social Care and Devolution, said ‘we won’t accept any proposal that takes vital funds away from Hackney to plug gaps in other parts of North East London’ and expressed concern over a lack of involvement with democratically elected local authorities, given that they organise deliver the public health and adult social care services fundamental to helping prevent ill-health and supporting independent.
Leader of Barnet Council, Councillor Richard Cornelius, said: ‘Local politicians are concerned that the process of developing this proposal has not yet involved them or taken into account the views of Barnet people’. He added ‘there needs to be a consensus with councils as it directly affects local services and the health and well-being of our residents. Over the coming weeks we will be seeking residents’ views before presenting the findings to Policy and Resources Committee in December.’
NHS England’s website claims that the aims of the STPs is to ‘help ensure health and care services are built around the needs of local populations…showing how local services will evolve and become sustainable over the next five years’.
However, Dr Paul Hobday, leader of the National Health Action Party, is critical of NHS England’s proposals more generally, saying ‘According to the STPs, to make the NHS affordable and sustainable we, the public, must get used to longer ambulance journeys for emergency care, longer waiting times for treatment and the possibility of paying extra to be seen by a doctor’. He has called for every plan to be published ‘without delay’.
