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To receive and consider the recommendations of the Cabinet relating to Councillors Biederman and Greenslades Notice of Motions.

 

The text of the original Notices of Motion, the Cabinet’s recommendations and any reasons therefor may be seen in full at Minute 104(e) of the Cabinet held on 9 November 2016 (Page 10 of 9 November 2016, Green Pages).

 

 

 

Minutes:

Pursuant to County Council Minutes 55 and 56 relating to the two Notices of Motion set out below as originally submitted and then formally moved and seconded by Councillors Biederman and Greenslade that: 

                       

Proposed Cuts to Devon Health Services and Impacts on Patients (Councillor Biederman)  

 

‘This Council is deeply concerned about the impact the proposed cuts to Devon health services will have on patients – especially the loss of whole departments including maternity services at North Devon District Hospital - and massive reduction in acute and community hospital beds across Devon, as set out in the sustainable transformation plan.

 

This Council also recognises that Governments have deliberately not provided the NHS with the adequate level of funding and now calls on local MPs to lobby government ministers to urgently and significantly increase the level of funding to the NHS, in order to protect our precious health services for current and future generations’.

 

NHS Success Regime  (Councillor Greenslade)  

 

County Council believes that the NHS Success Regime project for Devon is now seriously flawed and accordingly calls on the Secretary of State for Health and NHS England to cancel it forthwith. County Council further calls on Government and NHS England to firstly address the issue of fair funding for our area and to ensure the general election promise of an extra £8 billion of funding for the NHS is taken into account when assessing the claimed deficit for Devon NHS services.

 

Until funding issues are addressed it is not possible to decide whether or not there is a local NHS budget deficit to be addressed. Unnecessary cuts to local NHS budgets must be avoided!

 

Devon MP’s be asked to support this approach to protecting Devon NHS services”

 

and having had regard to the advice of the Health & Wellbeing  Scrutiny Committee and the subsequent views of the Cabinet set out in Minutes 29 and 104(e) of 8 and 9 November  2016, respectively, to accept the Notice of Motions in the name of Councillors Biederman and Greenslade as amended [highlighted below] for consideration by the County Council at its next meeting and to the further representations received (Minute 63 above refers).

 

Proposed Cuts to Devon Health Services and Impacts on Patients (Councillor Biederman)  

 

‘This Council is deeply concerned about the impact the proposed cuts to Devon health services will have on patients – especially the loss of whole departments including maternity services at North Devon District Hospital - and massive reduction in acute and community hospital beds across Devon, as set out in the sustainable transformation plan.

 

This Council also recognises that Governments have [deliberately] not provided the NHS with a fair [the adequate]level of funding and now calls on local MPs to lobby government ministers to urgently and significantly increase the level of funding to the NHS, in order to protect our precious health services for current and future generations’.

 

NHS Success Regime  (Councillor Greenslade)  

 

County Council believes that the NHS Success Regime project for Devon is now [seriously] flawed and accordingly asks [calls on] the Secretary of State for Health and NHS England toput the process on hold, until issues relating to the ‘independence’ of the Success Regime are investigated and for fair funding to be considered [cancel it forthwith]. County Council further calls on Government and NHS England to firstly address the issue of fair funding for our area and to ensure the general election promise of an extra £8 billion of funding for the NHS is taken into account when assessing the claimed deficit for Devon NHS services. Until funding issues are addressed it is not possible to decide whether or not there is a local NHS budget deficit to be addressed. Unnecessary cuts to local NHS budgets must be avoided! Devon MP’s be asked to support this approach to protecting Devon NHS services”

 

Members then formally moved and duly seconded the amendment(s) shown below and thereafter subsequently debated and determined.

 

Councillor Hart then MOVED and Councillor Clatworthy SECONDED that the Cabinet’s advice be accepted and in accordance with the views of the Health & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee the Notices of Motion as set out hereunder be accepted:

 

Proposed Cuts to Devon Health Services and Impacts on Patients (Councillor Biederman)  

 

‘This Council is deeply concerned about the impact the proposed cuts to Devon health services will have on patients – especially the loss of whole departments including maternity services at North Devon District Hospital - and massive reduction in acute and community hospital beds across Devon, as set out in the sustainable transformation plan.

 

This Council also recognises that Governments have not provided the NHS with a fair  level of funding and now calls on local MPs to lobby government ministers to urgently and significantly increase the level of funding to the NHS, in order to protect our precious health services for current and future generations’.

 

NHS Success Regime  (Councillor Greenslade)  

 

County Council believes that the NHS Success Regime project for Devon is now flawed and accordingly asks the Secretary of State for Health and NHS England to put the process on hold, until issues relating to the ‘independence’ of the Success Regime are investigated and for fair funding to be considered]. County Council further calls on Government and NHS England to firstly address the issue of fair funding for our area and to ensure the general election promise of an extra £8 billion of funding for the NHS is taken into account when assessing the claimed deficit for Devon NHS services. Until funding issues are addressed it is not possible to decide whether or not there is a local NHS budget deficit to be addressed. Unnecessary cuts to local NHS budgets must be avoided! Devon MP’s be asked to support this approach to protecting Devon NHS services”.

 

Councillor Boyd MOVED and Councillor Chugg SECONDED that in accordance with Standing Order 14(11) ‘The Question be Now Put’.

                 

The Motion was put to the vote and declared CARRIED and immediately thereafter the mover of the amendment (Councillor Hart) and the movers of the original Notices of Motion (Councillors Biederman and Greenslade) exercised their right of reply to the debate.

 

 

Councillor Hart then  MOVED and Councillor Hughes SECONDED that in accordance with Standing Order 32) the vote on the amendment in his name shall be by roll call.

                 

The Motion was put to the vote and declared CARRIED.

 

 

The amendment in the name of Councillor Hart was then put to the vote and there being:

 

for the amendment, Councillors Ball, Barker, Berry, Biederman, Bowden, Boyd, Brazil, Channon, Chugg, Clarance, Clatworthy, Colthorpe, Connett, Croad, Davis, Dempster, Dewhirst, Dezart, Diviani, Eastman, Edgell, Edmunds, Foggin, Gilbert, Greenslade, Gribble, Hannan, Hannon, Hart, Hill, Hook, B Hughes, S Hughes, Julian, Knight, Leadbetter, McInnes, Mathews, Moulding, Owen, Parsons, Prowse, Radford, Randall Johnson, Rowe, Sanders, Sellis, Squires, Vint,  Way, Westlake, Wragg, Wright, Yabsley and Younger-Ross (Total: 55);

 

against, or in abstention of, the amendment, none (Total: 0),

 

the amendment was declared CARRIED and subsequently thereafter also CARRIED as the substantive motion.


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