PEOPLE living in Okehampton and mid Devon are being invited to hear proposals for the future of community health services at a series of public meetings and drop-in sessions. Mid Devon's doctors and healthcare managers will be on hand to talk about what they heard during a series of engagement events over the past 12 months with local people and organisations. The Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) published its commissioning intentions for community services in Devon on September 17. These include the proposals for community hospitals, health and social care hubs, urgent care services in the community, stroke services, physiotherapy, community nursing, chiropody, leg ulcer clubs and more. The CCG plans to involve and engage with local people and organisations following the publication of the proposals. The health and wellbeing scrutiny committees in Devon and Plymouth will also be kept up to date throughout to ensure the process for involving local people in these important proposals is fully scrutinised. This includes opportunities for each of the committees to examine the proposals. At the events people will also have an opportunity to discuss and comment on the proposals. The public meeting on proposals in Okehampton takes place at the town hall on Wednesday, November 12 from 6pm to 8pm. Moretonhampstead Sports Hall will host a meeting on Monday, November 3 from 6pm to 8pm. Drop-in sessions will take place at Hatherleigh Community Centre on Tuesday, September 30 from 2pm to 4pm, North Tawton Town Hall on Wednesday, October 22 from 10am to noon, Chagford's Jubilee Hall on Tuesday, October 28 from 2pm to 4pm, and Bow Village Hall on Wednesday, November 5 from 2pm to 4pm. For more information or to register for one of the above events, contact Nicola Webber on [email protected]">[email protected] or 01392 356 129. More details will be available in the coming week on the website http://www.newdevonccg.nhs.uk/get-involved/get-involved/community-services/101039">www.newdevonccg.nhs.uk/get-involved/get-involved/community-services/101039