16 December 2016
On December 15th Green County Cllr Gina Dowding submitted a motion to full council, seconded by the Health Scrutiny Chair. It was amended by Labour, seconded by the Lib Dems. Gina accepted their amendment as a' friendly amendment'
This was the final one that was approved unanimously by the whole council.
There is real and well-founded concern within Lancashire's health sector that funding and staff shortages within the acute health and social care sector in Lancashire could result in loss of life or poorer-than-expected health outcomes this winter, particularly if we experience a strong surge in demand for hospital beds arising from either a prolonged cold spell, an outbreak of flu or respiratory disease, or other predictable winter conditions.
This Council believes that the Government and the Secretary of State Health should ensure that there is sufficient NHS 'surge capacity' to meet demand for hospital beds and ambulance services in the event of predictable winter demand conditions, in order to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality.
This Council agrees with Lancashire's Health & Wellbeing Board that Lancashire faces a £94 Million Social Care funding crisis which could well lead to increased bed blocking and increased pressures on hospital beds and A&E departments already close to breaking point."
This Council therefore asks the Chief Executive to write to the Prime Minister asking for a meeting to discuss the huge funding shortfall required to deliver an adequate Social Care Service across Lancashire. This Council further notes that if it accepted the Governments edict of increasing the Council tax by 6% across Lancashire it would still not go anywhere near filling the gap and would unfairly hit the 'hard working people ' of Lancashire.
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