Tom Blenkinsop – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Blenkinsop on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will meet the hon. Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland to discuss the proposed closure of (a) minor injuries units at Guisborough and East Cleveland Hospitals, (b) Skelton Medical Centre, (c) Park End Clinic and (d) Skelton NHS Walk-in-Centre.

Dr Daniel Poulter

These are matters for the local National Health Service. The hon. Member should engage with the NHS at a local level.

This Government is committed to devolving decision-making about local NHS services to local clinicians and communities. It is general practitioners clinicians, patients and local authorities who are best placed to determine the nature of their NHS services.