Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton

Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton Division elects three Councillors.

Candidates:
Division Name Party Survey
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton CHAMBERS, Kaye Elizabeth Grn (Did not respond)
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton CLARKE, Ted Lab (Did not respond)
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton COCKBURN, Josh Grn  
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton COLES, Will LD (Did not respond)
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton GRAHAM, Ray UKIP  
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton HALL, Andrea Caroline Con (Did not respond)
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton HARRISON, Ryan Peter Alan Con (Did not respond)
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton HAYTER, Janine Con (Did not respond)
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton LEMON, Chris Grn  
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton MACKENZIE, Jane Lab  
Bayston Hill, Column and Sutton PARSONS, Tony Lab
1. Will you support sufficient funding to enable all Shropshire’s Public Health programmes to continue, and to allow the development and implementation of new programmes to improve the health of Shropshire people?

Name Party Q1
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Yes
GRAHAM, Ray UKIP Yes
LEMON, Chris Grn Yes
MACKENZIE, Jane Lab Yes
PARSONS, Tony Lab Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment1
LEMON, Chris Grn I moved to Shropshire in 1993 to train and work as an RGN at the RSH. My training took me to the RSH, the PRH and the RJ&AH between 1993 and 1996 – all three hospitals were busy over twenty years ago and with no decrease in demand since then it is clear to me that they are all required now. I strongly believe in a fully funded NHS which is free at the point of delivery and which is based on need rather than the resources that the government of the day feel they can get away with providing. I also believe that locally elected representatives are honour bound to advocate this stance and that anyone elected to local government at the moment and in the future should be actively fighting the cuts and underfunding that are happening right across our country.
2. Will you support sufficient funding for health visiting in Shropshire to ensure the full implementation of NHS England’s recommended model: ‘The universal health visitor reviews’ – five mandated reviews?

Name Party Q2
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Yes
GRAHAM, Ray UKIP Yes
LEMON, Chris Grn Yes
MACKENZIE, Jane Lab Yes
PARSONS, Tony Lab Yes
Comments and explanations: None
3. Will you support Shropshire Council commissioning and subsidising public transport sufficient to enable all patients without their own transport to access health services reliably?

Name Party Q3
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Yes
GRAHAM, Ray UKIP Yes
LEMON, Chris Grn Yes
MACKENZIE, Jane Lab Yes
PARSONS, Tony Lab Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment3
LEMON, Chris Grn One of the main reasons I joined the Green Party is it’s position on public transport, with special regard to sustainable transport provision for all. The Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal Hospitals were designed with road transport in mind – the massive expansion of car parking facilities at the RSH in particular, with a worsening of bus provision over the years, should be reversed and clean public transport taking advantage of new technologies should be actively pursued. Local councils used to own their own bus companies, they should do so once again.
4. Will you support the funding of Healthwatch at a level sufficient to fully exercise its statutory role, and do you agree that it should be able to determine its own programmes of work independent of any Council veto?

Name Party Q4
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Yes
GRAHAM, Ray UKIP Yes
LEMON, Chris Grn Yes
MACKENZIE, Jane Lab Yes
PARSONS, Tony Lab Unsure
Comments and explanations: None
5. Do you agree that the Health and Wellbeing Board should only apply the Better Care Fund on programmes that will improve health and wellbeing, rather than transferring the cost of provision from the NHS to the Council, voluntary organisations, and individual patients?

Name Party Q5
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Yes
GRAHAM, Ray UKIP Yes
LEMON, Chris Grn Yes
MACKENZIE, Jane Lab Yes
PARSONS, Tony Lab Yes
Comments and explanations: None
6. Will you vote against endorsement of the current Shropshire Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) in which Shropshire Council is a partner?

Name Party Q6
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Yes
GRAHAM, Ray UKIP Unsure
LEMON, Chris Grn Yes
MACKENZIE, Jane Lab No
PARSONS, Tony Lab Unsure
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment6
LEMON, Chris Grn I have no faith in the current STP, which is clearly an attempt to paper over the cracks which chronic underfunding of our NHS has caused.
7. Will you vote against endorsement of future versions of the STP if it does not meet the following red lines: (a) no reduction of provision or access to in-County secondary care, including emergency care; (b) no reduction of hospital beds in either RSH or PRH unless bed occupancy rates have been running at 85% consistently for 12 months; (c) no reduction in acute/secondary care services that are being transferred to the community without high quality evidence based community provision being in place, fully operational, and proven to be successful; (d) no reduction in beds and service provision at our community hospitals; (e) a real increase in community mental health provision; (f) the continued provision of accessible Midwife-Led Maternity Units, in line with national guidance and with no reduction in current services; (g) a real improvement in ambulance provision to ensure NHS England target response times can be met across the County; (h) no increase in the fragmentation or privatisation of services?

Name Party Q7
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Yes
GRAHAM, Ray UKIP Unsure
LEMON, Chris Grn Yes
MACKENZIE, Jane Lab Yes
PARSONS, Tony Lab Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment7
COCKBURN, Josh Grn I support all the goals here. While we certainly should be seeking to improve ambulance provision in the county, I think that the geography does mean that it might be an ineffective use of resources to spend as much money as it would take to meet NHS England target times unless there was a massive increase in the budget.
8. If a member of the Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee, or the Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, will you ensure that there is full public consultation on any proposed changes to NHS service that might negatively impact any patients, and if such proposals are subsequently agreed by the relevant NHS body, will you vote to refer the proposals to the Secretary of State for Health?

Name Party Q8
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Unsure
GRAHAM, Ray UKIP Yes
LEMON, Chris Grn Yes
MACKENZIE, Jane Lab Yes
PARSONS, Tony Lab Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment8
COCKBURN, Josh Grn Many changes that would overwhelmingly benefit most patients might negatively affect some of them. I think the bar here is being set too high to be practical.