sorry, PCG board meetings are public and therefore anyone can attend but do
not have a 'right' to speak. However it would be v odd if the PCG chair did
not invite contributions from the floor of the public/orgs present.
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Leary <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, November 23, 1998 05:33 PM
Subject: Re: CHC in PCG
>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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