Changes to hospital and community services in Calderdale and Kirklees
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Between March and June 2016, NHS Calderdale and NHS Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Groups held a public consultation delivered by the Right Care, Right Time, Right Place Programme team. This consultation regarded proposed changes to local hospital and community health services in Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield.
Healthwatch Kirklees’ role throughout the formal consultation process was:To listen to what people are saying; to provide good quality, impartial information to people about the proposed changes and explain how people could have their say; to reflect the views of the general public back to the CCG’s and to the Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny Committee; to remain completely independent of the process.
Due to significant potential impact of these proposals on the delivery of health services in these districts, Healthwatch Kirklees invested resource to gather the opinions of local people. This process was carried out through the use of social media and by Healthwatch staff visiting locations across Kirklees and Calderdale, obtaining over 800 responses as a result of hundreds of conversations with people in both areas.
The core issues raised by people when Healthwatch Kirkless talked to them were: Concerns around greater travelling distances for patients; the increased length of time before receiving appropriate treatment; difficulties surrounding road and public transport infrastructures; the cost of travel; increased waiting times and a reduction in the availability of beds.