Bridlington Health Forum are holding a public meeting on Thursday 21st July 2022 at 15:00- 16:30 at Crown Buildings, Quay Road, Bridlington. YO16 4LS. Wheelchair access is available to the event.
If you are interested in local Health issues, please come and hear updates from the Officers of the Bridlington Health Forum. These updates will include information about the “Bridlington Health and Care Event” that took place on Thursday 30th June 2022, and provide details of how the Integrated Care System (ICS) intend to work in this area.
The Bridlington Health and Care Event, was attended by over 80 people, including Amanda Bloor, Chief Operating Officer of the new NHS Integrated Care Board and Simon Morritt, Chief Executive York and Scarborough Hospitals, East Riding Council leader Jonathon Owen opened by highlighting the health inequalities suffered by Bridlington and Driffield residents.
Bridlington Health Forum Chair, Dr Anthony Clarke said “The conference successfully illustrated growing gaps in healthcare provision within the Bridlington area to all local care providers. We are pleased those senior representatives of all the NHS organisations that can make a difference heard, first-hand, of increasing healthcare problems. Some were genuinely shocked by what they heard. I am grateful to the guest patient speakers who shared sad and harrowing personal experiences of the stretched and at times failing services within our town. Elderly and other members of our community who cannot drive are particularly disadvantaged by the lack of adequate facilities at Bridlington Hospital.”
“Bridlington Health Forum aspires to hold the ICS to account through further meetings. New acknowledgment of the deficiencies in local services must lead to the development of specific improvement action plans for Bridlington. The Forum’s role is to offer listening ears and a voice to Bridlington area residents who are concerned about local health care provision. Working with Healthwatch East Riding, we promise to act on your concerns if you share them with us.”
Please contact us at: assist.bridhealthforum@gmail.com or attend our next meeting: Thursday 21st July, 3pm, at the Crown Buildings, Quay Road, Bridlington YO16 4LS.
If you are attending, we are also making a collection of tinned or packaged food to support the Hinge Centre’s Food Bank project, any donations will be greatly appreciated.
