Lib Dem councillors got full Council backing for their motion debated at the last council meeting.

The Council agreed with the Lib Dems to the following:

This Council is angered and dismayed at the decision not to fulfil the pledge to invest in a new world class cancer treatment service at Dewsbury Hospital. The pledge was made in the consultation document You Hospitals Your Say.

This Council agrees that this decision makes a mockery of the consultation and that local people have been seriously misled by the proposals in the consultation document.

This council therefore resolves to:

1. contact NHS Kirklees and local MPs asking them to support the full implementation of Your Hospital Your Say by investing in the specialist cancer service at Dewsbury Hospital, and

2. ask the Secretary of State for health to reverse the decision and to give an absolute commitment that a full range of acute services will be retained at Dewsbury Hospital.

This Council also supports the statement Mike Potts, the Chief Executive of NHS Kirklees, made about this decision. He said, “we are extremely disappointed that we are not currently able to proceed with developing the specialist centre at Dewsbury.”

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