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Contact: Paulina Ford Senior Governance Officer, Scrutiny
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Apologies Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Lamb, Stokes, Sharp, Shabbir and Fower. Councillor Sandford was in attendance as substitute for Councillor Fower, Councillor Todd was in attendance as substitute for Councillor Lamb, Councillor Harrington was in attendance as substitute for Councillor Sharp and Councillor Jamil was in attendance as substitute for Councillor Shabbir.
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Declarations of Interest and Whipping Declarations Minutes: No declarations of interest were made.
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Primary and Urgent Care Strategy Consultation Minutes: The Chair welcomed everyone to the reconvened meeting and asked that those people wishing to speak from the public gallery identify themselves.
Dr Watson, Senior Partner at 63 Lincoln Road surgery was invited to speak. Key points raised were:
Observations and questions were raised and discussed including:
· If Option Three were to be adopted what proposals do you have for access on Saturdays and Sundays and would this be only for people registered in your practice. Dr Watson advised that under Option Three there would be a guarantee of increased access for patients registered at that practice at the weekends but exact timings could not be determined now. TheInterim Director for Primary Care reminded Members that the GP out of hour’s service operated seven days a week therefore the option of seeing a GP on a Saturday or Sunday was already in place. · How would someone access a GP at the weekends? The out of hour’s service was run from the Thorpe Road Walk in Centre. A patient would ring the out of hours service and they would be triaged and it would then be determined if they needed to see a GP or a nurse. This was also the practice during in hours service. · Why have you ... view the full minutes text for item 3. |
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Forward Plan of Key Decisions Minutes: Due to the time of day and length of the meeting Items 6 (Review of Work Undertaken in 2010-2011 and Work Programme for 2011-2012) and 7 (Forward plan of Key Decisions) on the Agenda were noted as read.
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