The theme of our stall at the Huntingdon Carnival next Saturday 10th August is GUESS! After much debate at our monthly meetings we came upon the idea because despite members regularly attending meetings of the Clinical Commissioning Group (the purse-string holders), the Sustainability & Transformation Partnership Board (the talkers) and the county Health Scrutiny Committee – the evershifting pieces of the local NHS Jigsaw make it almost impossible to get a firm grasp on the picture.
Huge changes are taking place but are being made largely unnoticed by the general public due to the secretive and oblique nature of the workings of the various committees and organisations involved – not to mention the big daddy Quango NHS England and NHS Improvement pulling lots of strings too…
So that is why at the Carnival we are asking people to GUESS what is going on with the local NHS? For example… Guess where this is?
We’ll also be asking people to guess the cost of SELF-PAY treatments and explaining why it is not a stupid question – self-pay/self-funding is becoming a common sight at NHS Foundation Trusts it seems. Guess how much the Clinical Commissioning Group are planning to CUT this year? Guess what hospitals are now merged into NWAFT?
And we’ll be inviting people to tell us their stories about the changes they have experienced as a patient in the local NHS. You can find us in the Marquee – Look for the big yellow duck and guess what it’s doing there!