Tory councillor who blocked attempt to save our Hospital stands down
Sara Randall-Johnson, Conservative chair of the Devon Health Scrutiny Committee for the last eight years, has given a farewell interview to the Midweek Herald in which she regrets that ‘more wasn’t done to improve health outcomes’ during her tenure. She puts NHS waiting lists down to the Covid lockdowns, forgetting that they had already ballooned due to her government’s cuts. In Seaton, she will always be remembered for making things worse – when Seaton Hospital’s beds were threatened in 2017, it was she who used her position as chair to block the referral of the proposal to the Secretary of State, sealing the fate of our campaign and laying the Hospital open to new threats like the one we’ve been fighting for the last 18 months.
https://www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/25034553.devon-efforts-improve-health-social-care-not-enough/
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 
March 26, 2025 at 10:33 am
In my capacity as Chair of the Seaton Hospital Steering Group I registered to speak at the DCC Health & Adult Care Scrutiny Committee meeting on Monday 24 March which coincided with the last occasion of her chairing that committee.
I used the agenda item relating to a Devon dementia strategy to talk in the 3 minutes allowed about our efforts to bring back into use the empty wing at Seaton Hospital and the delays we have experienced since producing a business plan last June. Although I did not receive any comments or questions back from the County Cllrs on that committee I did receive a promise from a NHS Officer in attendance that he would speak at a meeting he was due to attend on Tuesday and that I would receive feedback.
a local reporter has also picked up on what I said on Monday and I’m due to have a zoom meeting with him on 27th so that I can give him a full story going back to 2017 up to the present day so that he can use this in a podcast which may reach other news outlets.
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