Sir Greg Knight MP believes the Driffield MIU is vital for the area.
CCG's 12 week consultation begins with NO options for retaining Driffield's MIU
East Yorkshire MP Sir Greg Knight believes Driffield’s Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) is vital for the area and is backing the campaign to fight to keep the service open.
On Friday evening, he attended a meeting with members of both the Driffield Town Council and The Alfred Bean League of Friends and Cllr Barbara Hall to discuss the potential closure of the Driffield MIU.
Members of Driffield Town Council took the opportunity to inform Greg Knight why maintaining the local MIU facility is so important.
Representatives told him about their parishioners’ experience of the unit and how it was crucial to maintain the facility here in the town, Sir Greg and the Town Council were unanimous in their agreement that the MIU was vital for the area.
Sir Greg Knight said: “It was a very constructive meeting. The consultation is published this week and I look forward to scrutinising it.
“However, it is clear that the MIU at Driffield is valued by many residents and I am not convinced that there is any valid case for removing these services. I expect to have further meetings with Driffield town councillors in the near future.”
Driffield Mayor, Cllr Mark Blakeston, added: “We were delighted to welcome Sir Greg to this meeting to demonstrate the strength of feeling the local people have about retaining the MIU services here in Driffield; from the feedback we have already received and data we have obtained ourselves, the Driffield MIU would appear to be the most cost effective MIU of those being earmarked for closure.”
Gill Hara, secretary of The Alfred Bean League of Friends, said: “We were very happy to have the opportunity to meet with Sir Greg and we felt it was a very positive and constructive meeting.”
Last Tuesday the governing body of the East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) gave the green light for the start of a period of consultation over proposed changes to urgent care services. Under the plans, the six minor in-jury units across the East Riding of Yorkshire will be replaced by two or three urgent care centres.
Urgent care centres will be open for 16 hours a day, 365 days a year and will provide consistent services across all the centres.
There are four different options on the table. These are to have urgent care centres at Goole and Beverley; or urgent care centres at Beverley and Bridlington; or at Bridlington, Beverley and Goole and finally urgent care centres at Bridlington and Goole.
However, there is no option for an urgent care centre in Driffield or to retain the status quo.
“I am not convinced that there is any valid case for removing these services”
Rt Hon Sir Greg Knight MP – East Yorkshire
From Tuesday, (25th October) a 12-week period of consultation begins which will run until 17th January 2017. During this period, members of the public will be able to have their say on these proposals by completing a survey or attending a public drop-in event.
Councillor Barbara Hall, chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Health, Care and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Committee, said: “I would like to assure our residents that, as part of the proposed 12-week consultation period, the committee will receive a detailed presentation from the East Riding CCG in November 2016 and we will be thoroughly scrutinising their proposals.
“As elected members, we will work on behalf of our communities and ask the important and searching questions of the CCG about these proposals in order to seek the necessary clarity that residents require to fully engage with the consultation process.
“We know any proposed changes of this magnitude to health services in the East Riding is of concern to our residents.”
Jane Hawkard, Chief Officer, of the East Riding of Yorkshire CCG said: “We have worked very hard to make sure that the proposals presented best meet the need of the whole of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
“I would strongly encourage lo-cal people to get involved so that they understand the proposals and can have their say, either by completing our survey or coming to one of our public events.“
In March 2017, we expect our governing body to make a decision on the final service model following full consideration of feedback received from local people and clinicians during the consultation process.
A public event will be held in Driffield on Thursday 10th November from 4:30-7:30pm at the Driffield Town Council Offices on Market Walk for people to make their voices heard.
Have Your Say!
A public event will be held in Driffield on
Thursday 10th November
4.30pm until 7.30pm
at the Driffield Town Council Offices, on Market Walk, for people to make their voices heard.
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