Despite huge opposition from service users and their families, as well as those who'll be expected to take over the care of the 600 people who rely on Local Area Coordinators, the Cabinet voted unanimously to scrap the service.
Cllr Andre believes the decision to scrap Local Area Coordinators will have a devastating impact on Isle of Wight communities and vows to continue to challenge the council administration over their budget decisions.
Cllr Clare Mosdell says the IWC have no legal duty to fund it and "in challenging times, we feel we should look at protecting the frontline services we are legally obliged to fund".
Cllr Love, who has survived cancer and understands first hand the financial struggle of receiving health care on the mainland believes the Conservative administration should "hang their heads in shame" over the Cross Solent Travel Scheme consultation.
Isle of Wight council are considering scrapping a scheme that helps fund cross-Solent travel for the most vulnerable Islanders receiving chemotherapy, radiotherapy or renal dialysis on the mainland . It will be a budget saving of £60,000 per annum.
Cllr Ward pleaded with Isle of Wight council to support a motion that "recognises freedom that service men gave to us by fighting in the First World War" and tearfully explained his experience of PTSD.
Cllr Michael Lilley sets out the detail and shares documents to back up the call-in of the decision to scrap Local Area Co-ordinators, and explains how, in his view, the use of the words “clinically unsafe” prevented an objective decision being made.
IOW Save Our NHS Group believe the consultation survey on scrapping cross-Solent travel for the most vulnerable is "flawed and that it is limited, leading and misleading" and say it has not been publicised widely enough by IWC.
Four months after action plan drawn up, Sam says he's had no response from the MP and only a one-liner from Cllr Mosdell. His previous "healthy dose of scepticism" appears accurate.
The manager of the Isle of Wight Bus Shelter says that if the problem of finding a permanent location is not resolved soon, the bus would have to be sold for scrap or moved to the mainland.