Derek Deedman

Following the proposals in the Government’s draft Queen’s speech I am moving a Notice of Motion at the next County Council meeting on 6 June: -“This Council welcomes the Government’s proposals in the draft Queen’s speech to give people the chance to have a greater say in how their local health services are delivered, to help improve services to patients, and make NHS trusts more accountable to the people they serve. This Council considers that this would be best achieved in

West Sussex by merging the functions of the West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) with those of the County Council, to bring them under local democratic control and to improve working between health and social care functions.

This Council would be pleased to work with the West Sussex PCT to establish a pilot scheme for such an arrangement, and asks the Leader to call on the Government to formally approach the Government to approve a merger of the PCT and County Council as a pilot for it’s proposals in the draft Queen’s speech.”