I would have thought the regulations about PCG representation are clear.
If the CHC is not a member of the committee they do not have the 'right'
to attend meetings and certainly not the right to speak. Otherwise any
organisation, individual etc who feels strongly could equally demand
this right. PCG s could then become clumsy structures with multiple
conflicting inputs.
Our PCG (East Elmbridge) has a patient representative who presently is
the chair of the local CHC. However if a better representative came
along she could be displaced by that person and the CHC would then not
have this voice.
I would check the regulations and then advise CHC of the regulations.
They can't 'demand' anything!
Roger Leary. GP, Esher, Surrey.
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-----Original Message-----
From: K M Chung <[log in to unmask]>
To: Mailbase <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 23 November 1998 14:27
Subject: CHC in PCG
>Our local CHC (community health council) has written to us demanding
>that they sit at PCG meetings with speaker rights. After all, they
>attend all formal and informal HA meetings at present. And if the PCGs
>progress up the levels, organisations outside the PCG will be
>marginalised.
>I wonder if other PCGs have people other that the DOH has constitued to
>attend PCG meetings. There is obviously a lot of "primary care staff"
>e.g. practice managers, midwives, Macmillan nurses, voluntary
>organisations etc. who feel aggreievd that they are not represented and
>are trying to muscle into the seat of power in PCGs.
>
>Dr K M Chung
>
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