Radbrook

Radbrook Division elects one Councillor.

**Candidates:**
Division	Name	Party	Survey
Radbrook	CARTWRIGHT, Ian Edward	LD	(Did not respond)
Radbrook	NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn
Radbrook	ROBERTS, Keith Raymond	Con	(Did not respond)

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
NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn	Yes

Comments and explanations: None

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
NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn	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
NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn	Yes

Comments and explanations: None

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
NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn	Yes

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
NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn	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
NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn	Unsure

Comments and explanations: None

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
NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn	Yes

Comments and explanations: None

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
NEWNHAM, John Patrick	Grn	Yes

Comments and explanations: None