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Wales CHCs to be restructured
03 December 2009
News > Patient and public involvement
Edwina Hart, Minister for Health and Social Services in Wales has announced that Community Health Councils (CHCs) are to be significantly restructured following a lengthy consultation with stakeholders.
Ms Hart said "Having considered the situation, it is now my intention to restructure CHCs in Wales in order to ensure more effective partnership working and to bring about maximum benefits for local people. From 1 April 2010, I intend that seventeen of the existing nineteen CHCs will be dissolved and six new CHCs will be created, one in each of the new Local Health Board (LHB) areas and supported by a single, integrated administrative team.
The Board of CHCs in Wales will remain but will be made smaller so that it can work more flexibly. The Director of the Board will be made a full member so that she can participate more fully in decision making.
www.wales.nhs.uk/newsitem.cfm?contentid=13756
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