PROPOSALS TO DEVELOP OR VARY NHS SERVICES

1. The Committee is continuing to monitor proposals from the NHS to substantially vary health services, including

Maternity Services:


- Maternity Services in Southwest Hampshire
Following the removal of rehabilitation services from the Ashurst site work is now scheduled to start on the new birthing centre in June 2007

- Maternity Services in Southeast Hampshire


South Central Strategic Health Authority Review of Community Hospitals

Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust: Mental Health Services for Older People in the wider Southampton Area

Southeast England Strategic Health Authority Acute Service Reconfiguration - a Joint Committee with delegated powers to consider these proposals has been established with Councillors Dr. R. Ellis and

D. Wright representing Hampshire. The first meeting of the Joint Committee is scheduled for 4 July 2007.

2. The responses made by the Committee influence and improve the delivery of Health Services in Hampshire and, in doing so, support the delivery of the Corporate Strategy aim of maximising well being.