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Fluoride plans for Southampton could be scrapped
August 24, 2010 12:10 PM
By Jon Reeve in Daily Echo website
By Jon Reeve in Daily Echo website
PLANS to fluoridate Hampshire's water could be axed as health chiefs lose powers to approve the controversial scheme.
The Government has revealed councils are to be given responsibility for fluoridation as part of a shake-up of the NHS that will see strategic health authorities (SHAs) axed.
Every local authority in the area affected - covering parts of Southampton, Eastleigh, Totton, Netley and Rownhams - has already said it should not go ahead.
And after the controversy over the Southampton scheme, the Department of Health (DH) will also examine if the law needs to be changed to ensure people have more of a say on any similar proposals.
Pressure is now mounting on South Central Strategic Health Authority to scrap its plans, and abandon its expensive defence of a High Court legal challenge over the way the project was approved.
Chairman of Hampshire Against Fluoridation, Stephen Peckham told the Daily Echo he believes there is now no future for the Southampton scheme, which has already been on hold since last June until the outcome of the judicial review.
He said: "With SHAs being abolished by April 2012 this is just becoming an absolute nonsense.
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