Ludlow North Division elects one Councillor.
Division | Name | Party | Survey |
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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 |
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BODDINGTON, Andy | LD | Yes |
SENIOR, Linda Mary | Grn | Yes |
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar | UKIP | Yes |
Comments and explanations:
Name | Party | Comment1 |
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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 |
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BODDINGTON, Andy | LD | Yes |
SENIOR, Linda Mary | Grn | Yes |
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar | UKIP | Yes |
Comments and explanations:
Name | Party | Comment2 |
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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 |
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BODDINGTON, Andy | LD | Yes |
SENIOR, Linda Mary | Grn | Yes |
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar | UKIP | Yes |
Comments and explanations:
Name | Party | Comment3 |
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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 |
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BODDINGTON, Andy | LD | Yes |
SENIOR, Linda Mary | Grn | Yes |
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar | UKIP | Yes |
Comments and explanations:
Name | Party | Comment4 |
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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 |
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BODDINGTON, Andy | LD | Yes |
SENIOR, Linda Mary | Grn | Yes |
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar | UKIP | Unsure |
Comments and explanations:
Name | Party | Comment5 |
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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 |
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BODDINGTON, Andy | LD | Yes |
SENIOR, Linda Mary | Grn | Yes |
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar | UKIP | No |
Comments and explanations:
Name | Party | Comment6 |
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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 |
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BODDINGTON, Andy | LD | Yes |
SENIOR, Linda Mary | Grn | Yes |
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar | UKIP | No |
Comments and explanations:
Name | Party | Comment7 |
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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 |
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BODDINGTON, Andy | LD | Yes |
SENIOR, Linda Mary | Grn | Yes |
WOODWARD, Christopher Robert Dunbar | UKIP | Yes |
Comments and explanations:
Name | Party | Comment8 |
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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. |