Health board may meet more frequently due to coronavirus

The Board of the Southern Health and Social Care Trust may have to consider meeting more frequently to discuss the pressures being placed on the organisation by the coronavirus pandemic, its chair has confirmed.
By Adam Morton
Published 22nd Oct 2020, 17:00 BST
Updated 22nd Oct 2020, 17:00 BST
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Addressing a virtual meeting of the Trust’s Board, Roberta Brownlee described dealing with both the normal running of the Trust and the extra pressures as a result of the pandemic as a “challenge”.

“COVID-19 has taken over our lives,” said Mrs Brownlee.

“While we continue to do the day-to-day work a lot of time is being taken up with the pandemic but at the same time we are still trying to run our day to day business and that is a challenge.

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“We may have to consider how often we meet. We meet monthly at present but do we need to meet more often to discuss COVID-19 on its own?”

“The pandemic does take up such a chunk of our business now, we may have to facilitate additional meetings to discuss it.”

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