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Review of Non-Arterial Centre Designation on Warrington Hospital and the people it serves PDF 20 KB Minutes: The Board considered a report of
the Strategic Director, Communities which provided information and highlighted
concerns relating to the review of the Non Arterial Centre Designation on The report advised that at a
Special Meeting of the Health Policy and Performance Board, held on 28th
June 2011, Members had considered a report on the It was reported that Dr. Tom
Dent, Project Director, “The Board also noted that The Board was further advised that following the Health PPB meeting there had been an email exchange between Mr Simon Wright from Warrington and Halton Hospital Foundation Trust and Dr Tom Dent (Project Lead) and the Chair of the Health PPB. It was reported that Mr Tom Dent had stated that “With respect to the resubmission, I have no recollection of saying that this would be possible. I wonder if my remarks were misunderstood.” Subsequent to the email exchange,
it was reported that the Chair of the Health PPB would like to challenge the
process followed within the review as the Liverpool and Mr
Paul Brickwood, Director of Finance & Commissioning Knowsley
Health & Wellbeing, attended the meeting to clarify the current situation
in respect of the review. Mr Brickwood reported
that there would be a better outcome for patients if the high end arterial work
was centralised. He also reported that the
proposal ensured there was sufficient arterial activity across the area and there
was not a sufficient number of cases to ensure the best possible outcome if there
were more than two centres. In addition,
he added that |