Archive of public consultations

Please note this page is an archive of all our most recent consultations and is for information only.

Current consultations can be accessed here

A new health centre for Crossgates

This consultation is for people who are registered patients at the Church View and Manston Surgery GP practices in Crossgates, and any other interested parties.

We are proposing to move our services to a purpose-built development on Station Road, Crossgates.

Each of our practices will keep their individual identity and patients will be able to stay with their current surgery.

As part of the consultation process we are also asking for your suggestions on what we should call our new health centre.

To find out more and to take part in the consultation please:

• read this patient information leaflet;
• download and print the consultation feedback form (PDF document), or pick up a copy of this form from Church View and Manston Surgery GP practices; or
• provide your feedback using our online form.

The closing date for us to receive your comments and suggestions is Friday 9 November 2012.

Proposals for a new chronic back and neck pain service in Leeds

This consultation is about plans for a new service for patients with chronic back and neck pain.

There are currently very limited dedicated NHS funded services in and around Leeds. Your views are important to us to ensure we deliver this new service to meet the needs of the people of Leeds.

We want to provide a new service to help patients cope with, and manage their chronic back and neck pain. Currently patients with chronic back and neck pain are seen in a number of different services. These include services in the hospital, such as orthopaedics and rheumatology, as well as in their GP practice. However, there are currently very limited dedicated community based services for patients experiencing chronic back and neck pain in Leeds.

Please see below options for taking part in this consultation.

1. Once you have read this information leaflet we would be grateful if you could fill in the comments form and send it back to us at the freepost address provided by Friday 9 November 2012.
2. If you prefer you can feedback your views using our online form.
3. If you would like to take part in a focus group that will be running across Leeds please contact Amy Rebane at Leeds Involvement Project on 0113 237 4508 to let her know when you would like to attend. The dates are:

• Wednesday 19 September, 10am - 12.30pm at Beeston Hill Health Centre
• Friday 21 September, 1pm - 3pm at Yeadon Health Centre
• Monday 24 September, 2pm - 4pm at Meanwood Health Centre

Living well with dementia in Leeds

NHS Leeds and Leeds City Council want to improve quality of life and local services for people with dementia, their families and carers. Our local strategy document sets out a shared vision and approach to achieve the aims of the National Dementia Strategy in Leeds. It is a draft document which is open for comment until 30 September 2012.  Please let us know what you think. 

How you can help:

• There is a short questionnaire (Microsoft word document) for people with dementia and family / carers, which asks about your experiences of living with dementia - you do not have to read the strategy document to answer the questions. If you prefer you can complete the living well with dementia questionnaire online.
• There is a longer online questionnaire that you can also choose to complete, this is based on the strategy document which you will need to read first before feeding back your views.  If you do not wish to complete the questionnaire online you can download and complete a Microsoft Word version of the questionniare.

The strategy and questionnaire documents have contact details for making comments, or if you would like to request a speaker to talk about the proposed Leeds dementia strategy.

No decision about me, without me  

Detailed proposals to secure genuinely shared decision-making for patients have been published by the Department of Health.

The Department of Health is consulting further on these detailed proposals to implement the Government’s commitment to giving patients more say and choice over their care and treatment.

We have heard that patients want greater clarity over when and how they can share in decisions about their care, about the choices they have and when they apply.

The consultation proposes a model of shared decision-making all along the patient pathway, which should be relevant irrespective of patients’ conditions, their clinical pathway or progress along it. The model indicates where patients would be expected to have more say in decisions about their care in primary care; before a diagnosis; at referral to secondary care; and after a diagnosis had been made.

It asks a small number of focussed questions to seek views on:

• whether we have identified the right areas as well as the right levers for making sure our proposals will give patients more opportunities to make shared decisions about their care and treatment, all along the pathway
• whether our proposals are realistic and achievable
• whether we have missed any key issues
• whether we have identified the right means of delivering our proposals.

Read more about this consultation and find out how you can respond (link to Department of Health website).

Closing date for comments: 20 July 2012

Proposals for changes to community ear, nose and throat (ENT) services in Leeds

People in Leeds can choose to have ENT services from a number of local community clinics and hospitals. About 30,000 patients used local ENT services last year, and 3,000 of these patients used services based in the community.

We are looking for new providers of ENT services in the community. These services would deliver a range of outpatient services, traditionally delivered in a hospital outpatient setting.  The service would be delivered by a range of professionals including ENT consultants, GPs with a special interest in ENT, specialist nurses and audiologists.

We want to hear from you to check that our plans are shaped by what the local population wants and need.  You can access the full consultation document here along with a comments form to feedback your views or you can feedback your comments using the online comments form (this is now not available).

We will also be holding a number of sessions across Leeds where you can call in, ask questions and find out more information about the consultation.  This will be your opportunity to speak to us directly.  The sessions will be as follows, all from 9:30am until 16:30pm:-

• Crossgates Shopping Centre, LS15 8ET on the 23rd February
• Sainsburys, Moor Allerton, LS17 5NY on the 24th February
• Tesco, Bramley, LS13 2ET on the 27th of February
• St George's Centre, Middleton, LS10 4UZ on 7th of March
• White Rose Shopping Centre, LS11 8LU on the 19th of March

 Please note the consultation closes on 12 April 2012. 

Your views on urgent healthcare in Leeds

We would like to hear your views on where urgent healthcare is provided in Leeds.

About four years ago, along with other primary care trusts in West Yorkshire, we asked people how they would like to see urgent care services improved in your area. 

We now want to further improve urgent care services and would like you to give us your feedback by completing an online questionnaire.

What is urgent care?

‘Urgent care’ describes the NHS services you use when you need advice or treatment immediately, but which is not an emergency or life-threatening.

Urgent care is also sometimes called ‘Unplanned’ or ‘Unscheduled’ care.

This can be any time of the day or night and any day of the week, including bank holidays.

It includes anything from telephone advice through to face-to-face treatment by a doctor or nurse.

Closing date: please ensure you feedback your views by Sunday 4 March 2012.

Closure of the commuter walk-in centre at The Light, The Headrow, Leeds

The commuter walk-in centre in The Light, Headrow, Leeds is funded by the Department of Health on a five year contract. In November 2011 the contract and funding will come to an end for this centre and the Department of Health does not intend to continue with either. This means that the commuter walk-in centre in Leeds will close on 30 November 2011.

NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Executive (CCE), including local GP commissioners, agreed that the we should ensure that the needs of patients are met within the rest of the NHS services provided in Leeds.

Since the walk-in centre first opened, there have been significant enhancements to local walk in and out of hours services. These include:

• establishing West Yorkshire Urgent Care Services so that people who have an unexpected health problem can be assessed quickly and directed to the most appropriate service by calling one number: 0345 605 99 99*. The West Yorkshire Urgent Care Services aims to ensure patients are seen quickly, at the most appropriate time and place for their treatment and care;
• opening the Shakespeare Medical Practice (Walk-in Centre), Burmantofts Health Centre, Cromwell Mount, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TA . This is open 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year and sees both registered patients, non-registered patients and walk-in patients;
• extending the opening times at St George’s Centre Minor Injuries Unit, Middleton Leeds and Wharfedale Minor Injuries Unit, Newall Carr Road, Otley;
• extended opening hours in some GP practices in Leeds; and
• a GP practice open in The Light, on the same site as the commuter walk-in centre.

NHS Leeds wants to help people access NHS services by promoting the Choose well campaign. We would also like to find out which services people will use once the commuter walk-in centre has closed. There is more information in the commuter walk-in centre closure leaflet.

*Calls to 03 numbers should cost no more than 01 or 02 local calls and may be included within inclusive call minutes, subject to provider and call package. Calls from mobiles may vary depending on network provider

**Calls to NHS Direct cost a maximum of 5 pence per minute from a BT landline. Calls from mobiles and other networks may vary. Your service provider may charge a minimum cost per call. For patients’ safety, calls to NHS Direct are recorded.

Retirement of Dr Ellison, Dixon Lane Medical Practice

Dr Ellison of Dixon Lane Medical practice has applied to NHS Leeds to take retirement and close his surgery on 18 November 2011.

Please read this information carefully. We would also welcome your views on the proposal and what non GP or clinical service you would use if available. Please use this comments form to feedback your views.

If you are a patient at Dixon Lane Medical Practice this retirement of Dr Ellison consultation document details how this closure will affect you and what, if anything, you are required to do.

Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Consultation

Safe and Sustainable has launched a public consultation on the future of children’s congenital heart services. The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) - the decision making body that represents all PCTs in England-met on 16 February 2011 and approved recommendations for public consultation.

 The NHS would like views from the public about the proposed changes including the people most affected: parents, young people and NHS staff. The public consultation runs until 1 July 2011. 

We are consulting on the following key areas:-·        

• Standards of care: proposed national quality standards of care to be applied consistently across the country·        
• Congenital heart networks: development of networks to coordinate care and ensure more local provision (e.g. assessment, ongoing care)     
• Options for fewer surgical centres:to improve outcomes for children’s heart surgery in the future 
• Better Monitoring: improvements for analysis and reporting of mortality and morbidity data

For further information on the public consultation please click here

Vascular Services Review

Information related to this consultation can be found on a separate page here.

Morbid Obesity Surgical Services

If you would like to take part in this questionnaire please click here.

Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment

This consultation closed on the 31st of December 2010. In this consultation, NHS Leeds sought the views on local community pharmacy services.  NHS Leeds produced a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA), a document that set out the pharmacy services in Leeds, the current and future health of people in the city and unmet need for pharmacy services. The PNA also included recommendations for how any future need for additional services could be met and provides a basis for commissioning future pharmacy services.  Views were sought on the PNA to ensure the document accurately showed the current provision of pharmacy services in Leeds and the future health needs of the city. We also wanted to ensure our assessment of the potential need for additional pharmacy services in the future reflected the views of healthcare providers, patients and the public.

Improving parenting support in Leeds

This consultation closed on 3 December 2010. Being a parent is one of the most rewarding and difficult jobs.If you care for children under the age of five we are interested in finding out about your parenting needs.

Your views are important to us so that we can make sure these services are of a high standard and meet the needs of those who use them. Please help us by completing a short questionnaire. To have your say please see the related download section below or click here.  

 

Improving breast screening services in Leeds

This consultation closed on the 26th of April 2010.  By 2012, we are looking to increase the number of machines at “static” sites from two machines to four, and reduce the number of mobile units to two.  To do this, routine breast screening is being introduced at Wharfedale Hospital in Otley which currently has a screening service only for people who have symptoms. In addition, we asked for your views on where to put a fourth machine; either at St James’s University Hospital (along with the two existing machines) or at Wortley Beck Health Centre in inner west Leeds.

NHS Wakefield District is also running a similar consultation for breast screening services in their area. Details of this consultation can be found on their website at www.wakefielddistrict.nhs.uk  

Vascular Services Review

Please note this consultation closed on the 9th June 2010.  Vascular services deal with the diagnosis, treatment and management of a number of conditions affecting the health of the body’s blood vessels. The Specialised Commissioning Group (SCG) is made up of the NHS Primary Care Trusts in the Yorkshire and Humber region. The SCG is working with patients, carers, members of the public and a number of organisations to plan how vascular services can best be organised across the region. 

The consultation took place between May and July 2010 and findings from the consultation are now available.  There is a full report and a summary report which you can access here or from the related downloads list below. 

Pharmacy services

This consultation closed on the 28th June 2010.  NHS Leeds asked for your views on local community pharmacy services.  Pharmacies play an important part in the health care of local people by offering a wide range of health information and support services. There are different levels of service provided by pharmacies; from basic services like dispensing of medicines to more advanced services like offering medicines reviews and specialist services for specific patients and service users.

We wanted to find out which of these services you currently use, where and when you use them. This will give us an idea of the types of services people want from their local pharmacies so we can develop a plan for making sure they are available in the future. This plan is called a Pharmacy Needs Assessment. The information you gave us will be used to inform the needs assessment along with the views of other local people.   

Your GP, your choice, your say

This consultation closed on the 2nd July 2010 and sought the views from the public, healthcare professionals and other staff working in the NHS on new proposals to give patients a much greater choice of GP practice.  At present, GPs operate within fixed geographical boundaries that can be restrictive and severely reduce patients' choice of the practice they register with, especially for those patients living in poorer areas.  The majority of patients are happy with their current GP practice but a significant minority would like to change their GP.

The consultation asked for views on a wide range of proposals, in particular around the issues involved in arranging home visits, co-ordination of community based services, safeguarding access for local residents, and access to hospital and specialist treatment.  More information on this consultation is available at www.gpchoice.dh.gov.uk

Community Neurology Services

This consultation closed on the 23rd August 2010. The Community Rehabilitiation Unit is part of the community neurology services run by NHS Leeds Community Healthcare and provides rehabilitation and long term support for patients and service users with neurological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis and stroke.  Community neurology services are currently being reviewed to ensure that patients from across Leeds can have treatment of the highest quality. Over the last 18 months, we have been talking with patients, staff and services user groups to develop a plan to improve services.   You can get a copy of the summary report of the consultation here or from the related download section below.

Community intermediate care beds

This consultation closed on the 11th of February 2011.  Views were sought on the changes planned to our community intermediate care beds service. These changes are really important for patients as they will help us to improve the care patients get and make sure they are treated in the right place. Community intermediate care (CIC) beds in Leeds are currently provided in V ward at Seacroft Hospital, or in a nursing or residential home. The beds provide a specific short-term service for people who need additional support for health-related needs. The service can help to get people out of hospital more quickly when they are well enough to leave but not independent enough to return home. The service also supports people by helping them receive their treatment in the most appropriate place, which may not be in hospital. The length of time people stay in a CIC bed can vary from a few days to a few weeks depending on their specific needs although every effort is made to get people home as soon as they are well enough to leave. 

Public Health White Paper.  Healthy Lives, healthy people:  Our strategy for public health in England

This consultation closed on the 8th March 2011.  On 30th November, the Department of Health published the Public Health White Paper  "Healthy lives, healthy people: Our strategy for public health in England" the latest consultation on the coalition government’s planned reforms of the NHS.  The Public Health White Paper outlines the government’s commitment to protecting the population from serious health threats; helping people live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives; and improving the health of the poorest, fastest.

Proposals for new community eye service

This consultation closed on 18 April. People in Leeds can choose to have specialist eye services from a number of local community clinics and hospitals. About 30,000 patients used local ophthalmology services during last year, and 8,000 of these patients used services based in the community.

We are looking to increase eye services that are based in the community, and the proposal is to base a new service(s) in the east of the city. The new service will provide a range of non-emergency outpatient eye services for adults that have traditionally been delivered in an hospital ophthalmology outpatients.

We wanted to hear from you to check that our plans are shaped by what the local population want and need.

Consultation on musculoskeletal services in Leeds seeks public views

This consultation closed on 18 April. NHS Leeds Community Healthcare invited services users, their families and carers as well as the public and organisations that work across health and social care in Leeds to have a say regarding the proposed relocation of musculoskeletal services from Leeds General Infirmary to Meanwood Health Centre.