Agenda

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(iv)         The Council/Committee/Sub-Committee is asked to consider approving any requests for dispensations to speak/vote on any agenda item in accordance with the Dispensations Procedure.

To receive questions and statements from members of the public in respect of any item of business included in the agenda, as provided for in Standing Order No.s 3 (e)(f)(g) and 3(h).

(a)        To receive and approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 5 December 2022 (attached).

(b)      To receive information updates on any matters arising from the previous meeting.

(a)           To review events since the previous meeting (attached summary paper provided by Councillor S Owen)

(b)           To consider support for the Patient Participation Groups’ initiative for a draft services specification for a Leighton Buzzard health hub.

To consider next steps and agree a date for the next meeting.

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Task and Finish Group Aims (agreed 5 March 2020):

1.     To press Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG) and Central Bedfordshire Council’s Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) to bring forward proposals urgently for a Leighton-Linslade Health Hub as part of a planned approach to improved localisation of hospital services for local residents and to secure the town’s fair share of Government investment in the localisation agenda.

 2.     To press for the development of that Plan to include local GPs and professions ancillary, patient groups and the Town Council, to promote, encourage and support early and regular consultation with residents of the parish in terms of the services to be provided and the location of the Hub.

 3.     To pursue, in consultation with the three groups mentioned above, that this comprehensive Plan shall include:

(a)   A Leighton-Linslade Hub providing a range of services that are currently provided by hospitals or not at all

(b)   The accommodation and investment requirements of existing GP surgeries in the town

(c)   Planned GP surgeries serving the new developments on the eastern side of the town and also Linslade residents, who used to have two GP surgeries but now had none.