Councillors and Decision Making

Members are reminded that they must not participate in the discussion or voting on any matter in which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest and should leave the room prior to commencement of that item.

In accordance with the Constitution, five members of the Council  submitted a request to the Speaker to arrange an urgent extraordinary public meeting of the Council with the following items of business:

Councillor Shaun Davies will move the following Motion:

“This Council is gravely concerned by the planned overnight closure of PRH’s A&E due to start in November. This Council has seen this coming for the past two years, and from October 2016, the Leader has contacted the Secretary of State numerous times to warn about the situation at SaTH.

Now at the 11th hour, this Council again calls on the Secretary of State to intervene to support the key priority agreed with SaTH and all necessary actions to prevent the overnight closure of Telford’s PRH’s A&E, namely:  

- To allocate extra middle grade A&E doctors and nurses to SaTH as a matter of urgency as current staffing levels make keeping two A&Es open impossible for the Trust to maintain
- Work with the Home Office to expedite stalled visa applications from doctors and fast track successful applicants to work in A&E at SaTH
- To provide central funding to help SaTH acquire a new radiology scanner at PRH to ensure its A&E can remain open overnight.”

The Motion will be seconded by Councillor Richard Overton.