Agenda item

10.1  Andrew Bland, Chief Officer, Southwark CCG, and Rebecca Scott Dulwich Programme Manager , Southwark CCG presented on Health services in Dulwich .

10.2  A member queried the level of consultation responses given the big distribution of questionnaires and noted that there has been quite a low response rate, particularly in hard to reach areas. Rebecca Scott explained that there has been a huge amount of community work with lots of in-depth responses received. These include responses from community groups who are often not heard, for example there has been engagement with Travellers. A member said he was interested that 3% of the respondents had learning difficulties, which is more than most but a high level of services users. Rebecca Scot said that the CCG did go back twice to one provider so she was sure that a thorough job was done in getting the views of people with learning difficulties. Andrew Bland said that the consultation plan also invested in a high quality Equality Impact Assessment.

10.3   A member of the audience voiced concerns about free schools utilising the Dulwich Hospital site and lobbying done by developers and local politicians. She said that she believed that the consultation has been marred by the free school issue. The chair pointed out that the consultation process can not look at the wider land use question, but is restricted to the health services to be delivered in Dulwich.  The audience member commented that this only became clear after lots of pushing and said that there should have been more clarity and transparency to start with. A committee member said he had always been aware that the Dulwich Hospital site would have a wide range of community uses. The audience member commented that while that might have been clear to the member and this committee is was not clear to her or the public.

10.4  A member commented that he would like to see other community uses on this land, rather than commercial uses and he raised concerns that available land on the site could be swallowed up by developers.

10.5  Councillor Coyle asked how many representations about Harris School Councillor Noakes had made and he responded that he had made none, but other local councillors had been active. 

10.6  Andrew Bland commented that he would like to focus on health services in Dulwich as this is what the CCG can deliver on. He added that wider issues were raised about transport and access and there is an issue about location. He said that when the CCG consulted they found that people wanted to talk about the quality of health services delivered rather than buildings, ownership and land arrangements. The audience member responded that thousands of people had submitted a petition about Dulwich Hospital. She added that a key issue for her is that the ownership of the hospital and has moved to a prop co (NHS Property Services). She asked if the CCG made representations to NHS Property Service and if the CCG have to get NHS England to commission services. Rebecca Scot explained that the plans are in the remit of the CCG; however the CCG will need to make a business case. This will need to outline the tenant’s requirements and NHS Property Service will set out how psychical infrastructure will be built and how this will be financed. She added that the CCG can not say at the moment who will be the head lease holder, as this will be done on ‘best value’. Audience members queried if Dulwich Hospital buildings are presentably leased from NHS Property Services and the current terms. Andrew Bland advised this query was best addressed to NHS Property Services.

RESOLVED

The committee will write to NHS property services requesting clarification on parties and terms of the current lease on Dulwich Hospital.