I HAVE only just read the Gazette & Herald article about an NHS meeting at 2pm on November 24 (Health bosses’ blueprint for healthy future’). Whether it covered Wiltshire as well as RUH & BANES is irrelevant, as this article should have been published last week, to notice for people to apply to attend. Perhaps Mr Callow did not really want residents to attend and give their views.
I did look at the website regarding the sustainability and transformation plan but it was about 36 pages of pie charts and speculation about what may be provided and much that seemed to have come direct from staff brainstorming ideas. Hardly useful when our services are threatened.
May I suggest you hold another meeting, with sufficient notice for members of the public to have the opportunity to give their views?
I notice that another meeting mentioned in the County news section (p30) was for carers both at Savernake Hospital and Rowden Hill House, Chippenham.
However, it was on November 25 to coincide with carers’ rights day.
This again should have been published the previous week.
I worked for the NHS as a primary care psychology practitioner and also as a paid counsellor with MIND. I therefore know that carers need plenty of notice of any event, so that they can arrange alternative support for the person that they are caring for. The article states there are 47,500 and they want to reach all of them. Surely this is not the way to achieve this?
DIANE TURNER
Stibb Green
Burbage