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Meeting Minutes for 2025

Meeting Minutes for 8th August 2025

Meeting Number: 2
Date: Friday 8th August 2025
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Cumberland House, High Street, Stone, Staffordshire

Attendees

  • T. Warrilow
  • J. Davis
  • J. Crump
  • P. Dimberline

Discussion Points

  1. Apologies received from A. Davis and M. Palfreyman
  2. Parking. Tory had words with the canoe members and it seems the parking there is controlled by the borough Council who can see no way through this problem for excess parking to help Assist staff members at Cumberland house as the cost incurred with parking by Cumberland house are far too high. To be looked into as changes could happen when Borough Councils cease to exist.
  3. The next Covid vaccination date is the 2nd and 4th of October 2025 and Tory asked if people could help. As Jenny Crump and Patricia Dimberline said they would step up to help. Jenny for the 2nd and Patricia for for the 4th. Anyone else would be appreciated. Times to be advised.
  4. Well being day is the 4th of September and assistance to get people to come and find out what help there is out there for them. John Cooke of little Little Bit of Stone online and Stone Gazette to be asked if they would put this into their summary.
  5. On the Osteoporosis line Patricia spoke to Kate and the idea is to get some cards and poster put in for anyone with Osteoporosis or spinal problems to get together to chat and possibly help if they have worries or anything else.
  6. The government have a 10 year plan coming up where the right of partnership within a GP practice could be removed, of course public will only be informed when this has happened. GP practices will then be wherever the GP answers which is not healthy for patients, no matter what age. The idea by this government initially was we would all have one GP we could call on and now it’s changed to a GP wherever it is within the UK or is it the UK? Hopefully the Kings fund will object to this plan?
  7. We talked about the housing plans going around Stone and Eccleshall et cetera. At the moment there are no plans included in this humongous house building for new medical Centre, new GP practices, new schools or anything that would compensate for the amount of people going into these homes will create. The borough Council must be held to account on planning, correspond with the local town and Rural councils, and make provision for schools, vehicle movement, and most of all GP practices, you cannot put 3 to 4000 people into a local area without the infrastructure being there.
  8. The meeting closed approximately 3:45 PM and a new date is yet to be arranged.