Mid and South Essex Service Harmonisation Consultation: 31 October 2022 until 19 December 2022

Local people are invited to share their views on proposals to ensure equitable access to healthcare services

Your local NHS is asking people for their comments about proposals to offer fairer access to six healthcare services in mid and south Essex.

In July 2022, a change in the law created a new organisation, NHS Mid and South Essex, to take over local healthcare planning from the five former clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) serving the area.

These five organisations had been responsible for planning, buying and monitoring most local health services. While the majority of their policies were similar, six services had marked differences:

• Weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery)
• Correction for uneven breasts (breast asymmetry)
• Breast reduction
• Female sterilisation
• Vasectomy (male sterilisation)
• Special fertility services (intrauterine insemination or IUI for short, sperm and egg donation, and in-vitro fertilisation, usually called IVF)

Clinical experts have looked at the latest evidence and practice for all six of these services, both nationally and locally, to ensure the local offer is high quality and safe. NHS Mid and South Essex has also already met members of the groups most impacted by the proposals to seek advice on how best to shape the proposals.

Mid and south Essex Integrated Care this week sees the launch of a public consultation to collect wider views and feedback from local residents and staff to inform final decision making. 

They also have a series of planned engagement events across Mid and south Essex, including a face-to-face event at The Forum which people can book onto via Eventbrite link(s) below.

To find out more information and have your say, please visit this webpage https://www.midandsouthessex.ics.nhs.uk/get-involved/how/consultations/ 

The consultation runs from 31 October 2022 until 19 December 2022.

*Update - 8th February 2023*

Analysis Report: Service Harmonisation Public Consultation

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board (MSE ICB) would like to take this opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to everyone who took the time to promote and share their views regarding the MSE ICB Service Harmonisation Consultation which ran from 31 October to 19 December 2022.

The public consultation included a variety of engagement methods including, a survey, engagement events, focus groups which were publicised widely among stakeholders, newsletters, the website and was published in the media and on social media. An independent agency have now analysed the feedback from the consultation and their findings can be found in the Analysis Report.

The Analysis Report will be presented to the ICB Board on 9 February 2022 along with the business case in order to make a final decision about the future policies.  More information including ICB Board papers can found on the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System website 

If you would like to contact the team about this, please email mseics.getinvolved@nhs.net