Issue - meetings

CANCER SERVICES - HEALTHWATCH RESPONSES

Meeting: 15/10/2019 - Joint Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 15)

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Report and further comments from Local Healthwatch organisations attached.

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Minutes:

The Chief Executive of Healthwatch Redbridge explained that the organisation retained a number of concerns around the changes to chemotherapy services. These covered a lack of information around the demographics of patients using the service, the lack of knowledge among patients of the Cedar Centre cancer support hub, and that care may not be delivered close to home as seen with the planned Early Diagnosis Centre in Mile End. Disappointment was also expressed that BHRUT had not as yet taken the option of using the group of cancer patients Healthwatch had engaged with, as a reference group.

 

It had not proven possible for a meeting between Healthwatch and BHRUT to discuss these issues to be arranged prior to the Joint Committee meeting but the Healthwatch representative would bring a further update to a future meeting of the Joint Committee.