Agenda Item No. 6c Mrs Margaret Whitehead Chairman County Hall Health and Adult Social Care Select Committee West Street Chichester e-mail address: West [email protected] PO19 1RQ

website: www.westsussex.gov.uk

16 October 2013

Dr Dan Poulter MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health Department of Health Richmond House 79 Whitehall LONDON SW1A 2NS

Dear Mr Poulter

NHS Property Services

Thank you for your letter of 23 April 2013, Ref PO00000770647 regarding NHS Property Services Limited. I am somewhat disappointed that you didn’t respond to the specific issues I raised in my original letter to of 20 March 2013, and particularly the concerns of the Health and Adult Social Care Select Committee (HASC) regarding the need for NHS Property Services to have a local face and for it to work with local interest groups and organisations to explore new and innovative ways of providing local health and social care services. We are particularly concerned that the costs of renting NHS Property might prohibit the development of services that meet key local needs.

HASC is currently scrutinising proposals for service change relating to NHS short breaks services for children with complex health needs and disabilities, and we are very concerned that it may prove impossible to sustain services currently provided at the Cherries in Chichester. Whilst we understand that there is a need to change these services, we are worried that options for the future may be hampered by the costs of renting the unit in Chichester.

Yours sincerely

Mrs Margaret Whitehead Chairman, Health and Adult Social Care Select Committee

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