Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01591 · Session 4

Major redesign of healthcare services in Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross

Closed Submitted 30 Oct 2015 Health
Signatures
4,500
Comments
0
Considered
11 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to reverse its approval of the major service change to healthcare services in Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross.

What the petitioner did first

We participated at every possible opportunity in NHS Highland's consultation on the proposed service changes and campaigned against these changes. We highlighted issues with the consultation and design process to Dave Thompson MSP in December 2014 and sought to explore concerns with senior NHS Highland representatives at a meeting in January 2015 that was chaired by Mr Thompson.
We held public meetings in March and June 2015, each attended by several hundred people, to raise awareness and demonstrate support for our campaign to have an Independent Scrutiny Panel (ISP) examine NHS Highland's major service change proposals. Over 4500 signatures have been collected on a petition calling on the Cabinet Secretary for Health to establish an Independent Scrutiny Panel (ISP) to examine the NHS Highland proposals.

We sought to engage the support of all the May 2015 General Election local parliamentary candidates for an ISP, and spoke with the First Minister during her pre-election visit to Portree to raise our concerns. We met with Mary Scanlon MSP who raised a parliamentary question on our behalf on 10 June 2015.
We are seeking reversal of the Scottish Government’s approval of NHS Highland’s major service change proposals for hospital and healthcare services in Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross, because we are extremely concerned about the potential impact of the proposed service changes on our remote and rural population.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 15 Dec 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 23 Feb 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 29 Sep 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  4. 22 Dec 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  5. 16 Mar 2017
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  6. 25 May 2017
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  7. 9 Nov 2017
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  8. 23 Nov 2017
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  9. 29 Mar 2018
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  10. 7 Jun 2018
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  11. 6 Jun 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

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