Taunton Deane MP Rebecca Pow recently organised a roundtable with Health and Secondary Care Minister, Will Quince MP and the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust leadership team. The purpose of the meeting was to highlight the many successes achieved by the Trust including their merger as well as to raise the range of ongoing challenges they are facing. Attendees from the Trust’s leadership team included the Chairman as well as representatives who cover Midwifery, Primary Care, Secondary Care, Mental Health and Learning Difficulties and Strategy and Development. This roundtable follows a meeting between Rebecca, the Chairman and the Social Care Minister which took place last month.
Local MP Rebecca Pow said:
“I was so pleased to facilitate this meeting to highlight how Somerset Foundation Trust are putting patient health at the forefront whilst minimising bureaucracy following their recent merger of acute, community and mental health services. We were pleased to update the Minister regarding a range of the Trust’s success stories as well as stressing to him the need to continue with plans for the upgrade of the whole hospital site, including the antiquated maternity unit.”
Chair of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Colin Drummond, OBE, DL, said:
“Organisationally Somerset NHS is leading the way in England but our maternity centre dates back to the Second World War - we need Ministerial backing to replace it.”
