Dear Sir//Madam,
The
BBC today reported that
"The future of up to 10 UK hospitals is' in doubt' "and that within
NHS South East Coast, in Surrey & Sussex, 5 focus groups had been established to look at the
15 hospitals managed by the nine Trusts in your catchment area and that consultations were due to start in the Autumn.
As your
website has no obvious coverage of this would you kindly provide a little more information about the 5 focus groups referred to , in particular who sits on them, how they were selected , who they are managed by and explain their exact brief and timetable for the formal consultations as
Autumn is almost upon us.
It would also be helpful if you could provide some
precise information about the nature, methodology and scope of the consultation process itself to encourage wider patient and public confidence and involvment in the process as the
Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Trust recently decided the outcome of its consultation re. the ' modernisation ' of its 'work services ' in advance while claiming to be promoting ' patient
choice'.
You can read more about this on this
weblog Lastly, would you please confirm that
NHS South East Coast is going to provide regular updates on the above process through an
e-mail newsletter and
RSS feed and take steps to see that people interested in the process can get the same regular updates offline.
Please acknowledge receipt .
Many Thanks