There will be a public meeting at the King’s School in Ottery St Mary on Tuesday 29 November, to consult residents on plans to shut 72 community hospital beds in Eastern Devon – and on introducing a new model of care on looking after more people in their own homes.
Last year NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group made a decision to shut all the general medical beds at Ottery Hospital as well as Crediton and Axminster. We now have 15 temporary stroke beds at Ottery but they are set to transfer to the RD&E in due course.
The CCG was not planning to hold a meeting in Ottery but myself, Cllr Elli Pang and Ottery Town Council all wrote requesting that a meeting be held in the town to update people on the new model of caring for people in their own homes and what plans there are for the hospital.
The meeting at the King’s School is from 6-8pm on Wednesday 29 November.
East Devon Watch 