Public Meeting On Health Care In West
Cumbria
A public meeting which was due to take place
on 13 January about health care in West Cumbria has been rearranged
to ensure that health bosses can attend to answer questions.
Councillor Alan Smith, Leader of Allerdale
Borough Council, and MPs Tony Cunningham and Jamie Reed, agreed to
rearrange the planned public meeting to ensure that Dr Neil
Goodwin, Interim Chief Executive of North Cumbria University
Hospitals, and Sue Page, Chief Executive of NHS Cumbria, will be
present to respond to questions from the public.
Councillor Alan Smith said: “We have tried to
be helpful and done our utmost to accommodate the diaries of Dr
Goodwin and Ms Page so that they can attend the meeting to answer
questions on the quality of health care in West Cumbria. Ms Page
has agreed to attend the meeting, accompanied by Dr David Rogers
and Dr Fayyaz Chaudhri. However we understand that Dr Goodwin won’t
attend the meeting as he works part time and Friday is not one of
the days he works.
“Dr Goodwin did offer to meet me privately but
it is not just me that needs answers; the people of Allerdale need
them too. A public meeting is the ideal opportunity for people to
raise their concerns about their local health care and get some
answers about the future provision of health services in our
area.”
The public meeting will now take place at 7pm
at the Wave Centre, Maryport on 3 February 2012. The public are
invited to attend.