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Ipswich Borough Council Local Plan Core Strategy and Policies Development Plan Document Review - Final Draft
Representation ID: 26262
Received: 26/02/2020
Respondent: East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT)
ESNEFT is undergoing a Sustainability Transformation Plan (STP) to determine how acute hospital healthcare provision will be provided. Acute hospital trusts are required to provide early delivery of additional inpatient bed spaces, which for Ipswich will support growth and resilience across the local health economy. Significant investment in healthcare facilities and services is/ will be taking place, to meet requirements of existing and future catchment population by planned new housing growth included in the Local Plan. A new Emergency Department and Urgent Treatment Centre, is due to be implemented 2020/21. to deliver the STP a planning policy basis is needed.
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