{"id":2772,"date":"2022-12-05T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:40:03","slug":"meeting-with-provide-at-st-peters-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2772","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with Provide at St. Peters Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale met with Mark Heasman, Group Chief Executive of Provide, and Stephanie Dawe CEO of Provide Health, at St Peter&#8217;s Hospital Maldon on the 2nd December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.provide.org.uk\/\">Provide<\/a> is a Community Interest Company which was created 10 years ago out of the NHS. It delivers a wide range of services at St Peter&#8217;s Hospital including Physiotherapy, Podiatry and a number of Children&#8217;s Services. It also administers the District Nursing Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, they discussed the waiting list across Mid Essex for children&#8217;s assessments, particularly for autism, and the measures being taken to reduce this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future of St Peter&#8217;s Hospital was also discussed together with possible uses once the new Maldon Health Hub has been built. St Peter&#8217;s is a much-loved facility in Maldon, but it is no longer fit for purpose and requires substantial investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John welcomes Provide&#8217;s commitment to continue to deliver services either from St Peter&#8217;s or from a new Health Hub in the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2773\" width=\"454\" height=\"501\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John pictured with Mark Heasman and Stephanie Dawe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Whittingdale met with Mark Heasman, Group Chief Executive of Provide, and Stephanie Dawe CEO of Provide Health, at St Peter&#8217;s Hospital Maldon on the 2nd December. Provide is a Community Interest Company which was created 10 years ago out of the NHS. It delivers a wide range of services at St Peter&#8217;s Hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}