The results of a public consultation on a proposal which would close Huddersfield’s A&E will be published at the end of this month.

And #HandsOffHRI, councillors, MPs, health workers and other campaign groups will be invited to an event to discuss the findings of the public consultation on the controversial Right Care Right Time Right Place plan.

Under the plan Huddersfield’s A&E would close and emergency care would be centralised at Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax.

The event takes place in September after results of the consultation are published at the end of August

The decision as to whether the plan will go ahead will be announced to the public on October 20.

It will be at a meeting between Greater Huddersfield and Calderdale CCGs (clinical commissioning groups), the NHS organisations behind the plan.

Before the joint meeting, Kirklees and Calderdale councillors on a scrutiny panel will decide whether to allow the plan to continue or refer it to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt at the Tory Conference, Manchester 2015
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

The CCGs are expected to receive the results of the consultation at the end of this month.

A CCGs spokesperson said: “NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit are currently independently collating and analysing all survey data and feedback in order to produce a report, The Consultation Report of Findings. “This is due for completion (at the) end (of) August and will be published on the RCRTRP website...

“As part of this deliberation, we will be inviting representatives of local stakeholders such as patient groups, voluntary groups, partner organisations, staff-side representatives, campaign groups, MPs and local councillors to an event to look at the findings of the consultation.

“We will also be considering the views of the Calderdale and Huddersfield Joint Health Scrutiny Committee who will, as part of their continued scrutiny of the consultation, provide a formal response to the consultation in early October and (NHS patients’ representative) Healthwatch, who will provide a formal response by the end of August.”

Under the Right Care Right Time Right Place proposal Huddersfield Royal Infirmary would be demolished and replaced with a smaller hospital, primarily for planned care.

It will have an urgent care centre but no emergency care centre.

Calderdale Royal Hospital will be expanded to become a centre for emergency care.