Issue - meetings

Members of the public who wish to speak at this meeting can attend the meeting in person or ‘virtually’ through an online connection.  In line with current Government advice, those attending the meeting in person are asked to consider wearing a face-covering.

Normally requests to speak at this public meeting are required by 9 am on the day preceding the published date of the meeting. However, during the current situation and to facilitate ‘hybrid’ meetings we are asking that requests to speak are submitted by no later than 9am four working days before the meeting i.e. 9 am on Wednesday 1 June 2022.  Requests to speak should be sent to colm.ocaomhanaigh@oxfordshire.gov.uk.

If you are speaking ‘virtually’, you may submit a written statement of your presentation to ensure that if the technology fails, then your views can still be taken into account. A written copy of your statement can be provided no later than 9 am 2 working days before the meeting. Written submissions should be no longer than 1 A4 sheet.

The Chair informed the meeting that there was one speaker (Julie Mabberley) who would address the Committee on agenda items 8 & 10.  The Chair said that she would propose that item 8 on the agenda (BOB ICB Strategy for engaging the communities and the public) be withdrawn from the agenda of this meeting (reasons to follow) yet she would let Julie Mabberley read out her statement related to that matter.

Item 8 - Julie Mabberley said that she was a chairman of the Newbury Street Practice Patient Group and several members did take HOSC Committee advice to participate in the bulk consultation. However, all of the members failed to register for any of the bulk of consultations without understanding why it was difficult to engage in the consultation. Julie Mabberley invited the Committee to raise this issue with BOB ICB Director of Governance to ensure that people could easily register for future consultations on this important issue.

The Chair thanked Julie Mabberley for her statement and confirmed that Committee had asked BOB ICB for assurance for public to be engaged in this exercise. The deadline for people to engage in the consultation was 17^th June 2022.

Item 10 - Julie Mabberley said that the Newbury Street Practice Patient Group was concerned that little progress had been made in terms of the Community Services Strategy which, in her words, would affect residents of OX12 the most because of the impact on Community Hospital and the remaining services which had been temporarily closed. Julie Mabberley added that there was uncertainty on what was the purpose of the Strategy, whether it would consider future of in-patients’ beds, and when would engagement with the public start.  Julie Mabberley concluded by saying that number of parking spaces outside the hospital were insufficient for patients and clinics.