Ludlow North

Ludlow North Division elects one Councillor.

Candidates:
Division Name Party Survey
Ludlow North BODDINGTON, Andy LD  
Ludlow North HARRIS, Simon Richard Con (Did not respond)
Ludlow North SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn  
Ludlow North WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP
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
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Yes
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Yes
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment1
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Shropshire should get its fair share of national resources. We also need to increase national funding. Shropshire Lib Dems recently met Norman Lamb MP to discuss his work on developing a hypothecated health tax.
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
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Yes
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Yes
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment2
BODDINGTON, Andy LD This is particularly important in a county with a dispersed rural population.
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
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Yes
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Yes
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment3
BODDINGTON, Andy LD The council should improve public transport for all purposes. Again, this is vital in a county with a dispersed rural population.
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
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Yes
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Yes
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment4
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Healthwatch must have adequate funding to meet its statutory obligations to patients and public independently.
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
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Yes
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Yes
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP Unsure
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment5
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Better Care needs an overhaul and improved funding (for which see 1 above).
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
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Yes
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Yes
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP No
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment6
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Shropshire Council has taken a passive approach to proposed health changes. It needs to become more active and conduct its own analysis of what the county’s population needs.
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
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Yes
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Yes
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP No
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment7
BODDINGTON, Andy LD There is a danger that so-called community level services become centralised in Shrewsbury and Telford. We need devolution of services to community hospitals and GP practices.
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
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Yes
SENIOR, Linda Mary Grn Yes
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar UKIP Yes
Comments and explanations:

Name Party Comment8
BODDINGTON, Andy LD Consultations should be listening exercises. Shropshire Council and Future Fit have conducted consultations which are more propaganda exercises rather than an attempt to understand public needs and opinion.