Campaigners are warning that controversial plans concerning health provision in Lincolnshire and Rutland will be determined by health bosses tomorrow.

Save Our NHS Lincolnshire is urging people to register and listen in to the meeting of the Clinical Commissioning Group during the afternoon meeting.

Secretary Tom Barker said: "The NHS are planning to have their CCG meeting to approve the Decision-Making Business Case (i.e. the final decision) on 8th June 1.30pm.

"There are several things we need to do:

"(1) Book BEFORE MIDDAY ON MONDAY 7TH to attend the CCG meeting (which takes place on Tuesday June 8 at 1.30pm. You need to email [email protected] to do this.

"We want this meeting postponed but they are planning to go ahead, and we need a strong presence there.

"We are trying to delay this meeting to avoid a final decision being made without any scrutiny of the feedback given by the public to the consultation.

"Please could you contact your MP and councillors and ask them to complain to Andy Williams, Chief Executive of the CCGs, about the fact the decision is being steamrollered through at breakneck pace - [email protected]."

A Report of Findings analysing public responses to last autumn's consultation was only published last week and now Mr Barker says NHS leaders are rushing to make a final decision on Tuesday 8th June.

This, he continues, shows a "lack of consideration for the public - who had been promised a public meeting about the Report."

Mr Barker wants the Report of Findings to be scrutinised by the health scrutiny before a final decision is made, something he says health bosses are avoiding.

He said: "A Report of Findings (i.e. analysis of the public feedback given in the consultation) was completed in March but not made public until last Wednesday and only then because of pressure."

"The Report of Findings in 760 pages long; the DMBC will be hundreds of pages long - it is not reasonable to expect those members of the public who are interested to read these documents ahead of the proposed CCG meeting on 8th June. They are going ahead in disregard of the public.

"The public were promised the findings would be discussed in public meetings, but this is not happening - only a meeting 'in public', which is not the same thing.

"They also gave the impression it would be a two-stage process with Report of Findings first - discussed at a public meeting, suggesting public input - and the decision made after that.

"The promise of a public meeting seems to have been retracted and the two stages seem to be being compressed into one."

The plea follows a similar complaint from the Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee of Leicester City Council, as reported by Nub News earlier today.

Members of the public are invited to attend an Extraordinary Governing Body meeting hosted by Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutlands' Clinical Commissioning Groups (LLR CCGs) to be held online on tomorrow (Tuesday 8 June).

At the meeting the Governing Bodies will consider the Decision Making Business Case on final proposals to invest £450million in improving Leicester's hospitals. It follows the public consultation that ran between the end of September and end of December 2020.

The meeting in public will be taking place between 1.30pm and 3.30pm.

The CCG says this means members of the public are welcome to observe the business of the meeting and will also have the opportunity to ask questions at the start of the meeting about items on the agenda.

Questions can also be submitted ahead of the meeting by emailing [email protected] by 12pm on Monday 7 June 2021.

The papers for this meeting are still being prepared but the agenda and Report of Findings from the Building Better Hospitals for the Future public consultation are available online:

Agenda – 8 June 2021

Paper C1 – Acute Reconfiguration Report of Findings

Further details of the planned changes can be found here, as previously reported by Nub News .