The CONSERVATIVE party has gained a majority on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, which also sees an influx of newly-elected representatives following an all-out election. Here, we have spoken to all 16 new candidates to find out a bit about them and what they hope to bring to the role.
Sean Dillow (Conservative, Winklebury & Manydown) is a delivery driver for Ocado. The 54-year-old said he’s “not a political man” but was keen to represent the ward as it embarks on the Winklebury Centre regeneration and Manydown projects, “to make sure it’s done right”. Mother-of-four
Abigail Compton-Burnett (Conservative, Winklebury & Manydown) lives in Wootton St Lawrence and is a governor for Hampshire Hospitals and a Besom charity trustee. The former nurse says health is top of her agenda, particularly “making communities as strong as possible so people can look out for each other.”
A HOSPITAL trust has welcomed four new governors to help influence how its services are developed and delivered. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT), which runs the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester is welcoming the latest members of the Council of Governors to join the team. The council works alongside the Board of Directors in ensuring that communities and staff have an influence in how services are developed and delivered by the trust. It is made up of members of fifteen public governors, five staff governors and five appointed governors. The latest four governors to join the team are:
13 February 2021 • 12:02am
More than one in three ambulance staff have had Covid-19, most of them catching it while at work
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SIR – I admire the attempts by Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, to reform the NHS to make it more responsive to the risk of future pandemics. He seems, however, to have rejected the Tories’ 1944 mixed private-state plan, flagged up by Allister Heath (Comment, February 11).
This may be because we already have such an organisation. Local private hospitals have, for the second time in under a year, been taken over by the NHS, meaning that patients who have paid large premiums for private health cover cannot access what they have paid for.