Issue - meetings

Report of the NHS Southampton – Executive Director Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group, requesting that the Committee agree NHS Southampton  tender the existing neuro rehabilitation services currently delivered from Stanley Graveson Ward  and Snowden Ward at the Western Hospital, attached.

The Committee received and commented on the report  of the Executive Director – NHS Southampton, Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group, setting out reasons for the decision to tender the existing neuro rehabilitation service.  (Copy of the report circulated with the agenda and appended to the signed minutes).

The Committee received a verbal update from Sandy Hogg, Executive Director – NHS  Southampton and Stephanie Ramsey, Joint Associate Director of Strategic Commissioning, providing further information and clarity on the current position.

The main points included:-

• The main reasons for the delay was the requirement to resolve quality issues before going to tender.
• A recent development, since the drafting of the paper, was that Solent NHS Trust had indicated that they may be able to provide an affordable service to the western hospital.   Talks were ongoing but the panel  were asked to agree that this would be the preferred option if they were successful.
• The possibility of moving neuro rehabilitation patients from the Stanley Graveson ward to Tannersbrook ward and spaces be made available in the general hospital for acute neuro rehabilitation.

RESOLVED that the Committee agreed that NHS Southampton tender the existing neuro rehabilitation services currently delivered from Stanley Graveson Ward and Snowden Ward at the Western Hospital if no agreement with Solent was reached.