Many thanks to the St Albans Lib Dem Group for forwarding this on to us.
This Council:
- celebrates the fact that nearly 70 years ago Parliament created a National Health Service, essentially free at the point of delivery
- accordingly seeks to maintain those benefits in this District
- resolves to write to the Secretary of State and to local MPs asking that the Government:
- works with those in all parties to find a way of resolving the NHS’s continuing cash crisis
- makes up the funding gap in social care identified by the Local Government Association
- gives an undertaking to provide the capital funding needed to provide the identified improvements to Watford General and St Albans hospitals or for a wholly new facility
- publishes a White Paper by summer 2018 outlining the Government’s intentions for integrating and funding health and social care provision in the future
- provides adequate funding for mental health care in the district
- takes appropriate steps to protect community pharmacies in the district