A draft report of feedback received during the recent NHS consultation led by NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board has been published.
Over 5,400 people took part in the public consultation which ran from 25 January to 11 April 2024 into areas of NHS community hospital services including:
- proposals to make potential changes to the places where some community hospital intermediate care and stroke rehabilitation services are provided.
- a proposal to make permanent the temporary move of the freestanding midwife-led birthing unit in mid and south Essex from St Peter’s Hospital, Maldon to the William Julien Courtauld Unit at Braintree Community Hospital
- proposals on the possibility of moving all other patient services at St Peter’s Hospital, Maldon to other locations, mostly in and around Maldon
“We would like to thank the thousands of people who took the time to give their views during our public consultation. We want to make sure we have considered all views and suggestions on any alternative service models that may have been suggested through the public consultation. People who provided feedback now have an opportunity to review the consultation report to ensure it reflects what they have said, as it is very important that we have this information available to us when we come to make our decision about the future of community and midwifery services across mid and south Essex.”
The draft public consultation report is available on the ICB website and on the Virtual Views engagement platform, along with a video presentation to explain the findings.
People are invited to review the report to make sure it accurately reflects the feedback they provided during the consultation. You can provide feedback by emailing [email protected] or by writing to: Stand, Enterprise House, Barnard Castle DL12 8XT, by 31 July 2024.
A public on-line feedback session has been organised to take place on 18th July at 6.30pm, where people can hear directly from the independent analysts who drafted the report.
Register for public online feedback sessionThe feedback received during the consultation will be used to inform the decision-making process, which will be presented at an extraordinary Mid and South Essex ICB Board meeting. This meeting is scheduled to take place as a meeting in public on 30 September 2024. Further information about this meeting will be available on the NHS Mid and South Essex website in due course. At this meeting, all feedback and evidence will be given careful consideration as part of the decision-making process.
Board meeting livestream notice – 10 July 2024
Due to venue capacity, our Board meeting on 11 July 2024 will now be live streamed to accommodate as many members of the public as possible. You can access the livestream via the following link: https://youtube.com/live/0G-J0WXO7MU.
Please note, the meeting is held ‘in public’ but it is not a public meeting. Members of the public are welcome to attend and listen to the discussions, promoting transparent governance and decision-making, without interrupting the Board’s proceedings.
There is an item early in the agenda for the Chair of the meeting to respond to questions raised by members of the public that have been submitted in advance of the meeting (submitted before 12pm on 9 July 2024). There will be no opportunity to ask questions on the day or for members of the public to comment during the meeting. Questions submitted outside of this time will be responded to after the Board meeting.