A council health scrutiny committee is to invite campaigners to observe its meetings and witness its work first-hand.
Lincolnshire County Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee – which is responsible for holding health organisations which serve the county to account – has extended the invitation to members of the newly-former Cure the NHS Lincolnshire group.
The group has been set up as United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust faces a review of its mortality rates and aims to help make sure that managers and officials are properly held to account over health issues .
The Health Scrutiny Committee has received regular updates from United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust over the past few years.
Committee chairman Coun Christine Talbot said: “People in Lincolnshire can have confidence that effective scrutiny of health organisations is taking place.
“Any interest groups in the county putting public views forward as part of the review by Sir Bruce Keogh are welcomed, and the committee will also be contributing information given to us by the public.”
Cure the Lincolnshire NHS has been set up by Folkingham businessman Jan Hansen to give people a focus for sharing their experiences of hospitals.
Jan said: “There have been complaints that the public do not know how to contact the team who will be carrying out the safety review and that is why we have launched this organisation.”
Go to www.cureNHSLincolnshire.org or email info@cureNHSLincs.org