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Update on the Transfer of Services from the RNHRD to the RUH (Pain Services)
Meeting: 30/01/2019 - Health and Wellbeing Select Committee (Item 67)
67 Update on the Transfer of Services from the RNHRD to the RUH (Pain Services) 
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This paper has been prepared to ensure that the B&NES Health and Wellbeing Select Committee are kept up-to-date with the proposed relocation of the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (RNHRD) specialised pain services from the Mineral Water Hospital site to facilities on the RUH’s Combe Park site.
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Emma Mooney and Caroline Kenny were present from the RUH to introduce this report to the Select Committee, a summary is set out below.
The proposal is to relocate the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (RNHRD) specialised pain services from the Mineral Water Hospital site to facilities on the RUH’s Combe Park site. The timeframe to relocate these services is autumn 2019.
Relocating the RNHRD’s specialised pain services represents the final phase in a planned programme of service relocation, following the acquisition of the RNHRD by the RUH in February 2015.
There will be no change in the level of service provision for patients of the RNHRD Bath Centre for Pain Services or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome or Complex Cancer Late Effects Services. The same range of services will be provided and patients will continue to be seen and treated by the same team to the same high standards, only the location would change.
Councillor Vic Pritchard stated that he wished to commend the process that has been carried out throughout the whole transfer of services.
The Select Committee RESOLVED to:
(i) Note the outcome of the impact assessments and patient and public engagement activities which provided opportunities for patients, staff, stakeholders and the public to provide feedback on the proposed move, and which confirmed that the effects of this change are considered minimal and that there are a number of positive aspects to the change, for current and future patients.
(ii) Endorse the proposal to relocate the RNHRD’s Bath Centre for Pain Services, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and Complex Cancer Late Effects Rehabilitation services from the Mineral Water Hospital site to facilities on the RUH’s Combe Park site.
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