FERGUSSON REACTS TO HEALTH BOARD’S CONSULTATION DECISION
03 February 2010
FERGUSSON REACTS TO HEALTH BOARD’S CONSULTATION DECISION
Following Dumfries & Galloway Health Board’s announcement that it is to postpone its consultation exercise on Care Services for at least 18 months, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale MSP Alex Fergusson said:
“While I fully understand the concerns of the Board that the deliberations on the consultation exercise will become embroiled in elections to its own Board and then in the rapidly approaching Scottish Parliamentary elections of 2011, I am somewhat bemused at the abrupt nature of this decision. I can only put it down to the extent of the public reaction to the Board’s preferred Option C, which has been both forceful and constant. If this was indeed a genuine consultation exercise taking the views of the public into full account there is no way the Board could have continued with Option C. I am therefore not entirely surprised that they have decided to think again on the options put forward. No doubt the newly elected members of the Board will have some strong views on what those options should involve”.