Motion by Councillor Stefan Gawrysiak
In December Oxfordshire County Council removed 7 beds from the Chiltern care home. These beds were removed without any consultation with the GP’s who run them, Henley Town Council and the community of South Oxfordshire and Henley. This lack of consultation by the Council is unacceptable.
These beds were originally provided as NHS beds.
Following FOI requests to the Integrated Care Board Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Berkshire West (ICB BOB) and the Council we have firmly established that these beds are NHS Beds funded by ICB, the Council and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and cannot be closed without consultation.
Dr Broughton interim Chief Executive of the ICB BOB states 28th February 2024
“The beds have not ‘lost NHS funding’, “The beds continued to be overseen by the Oxford University Hospital Hub team.”
These beds are NHS beds which cannot be removed without consultation.
This Council:
1. Deplores the removal without consultation.
2. Believes these beds which serve a population of 140,000 of South Oxfordshire should be reinstated.
This Council requests that Cabinet:
3. Asks partners to seek to reinstate the 7 Chiltern Court Beds serving South Oxfordshire.
4. Conduct a consultation if they still wish to remove the beds.
Note: The motion, if passed, would constitute the exercise of an executive function in which case it will be referred to the Cabinet together with any advice the Council may wish to give, in accordance with Rule 13.5.1 (i) of the Council Procedure Rules in the Constitution.
Decision:
The time being close to 3.30 pm, this Motion was considered dropped in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 5.2.