howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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after 17 years that seems good enough keith, memories of details get slightly blurred.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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thought guzzler looking for far more
seems to have bottled it?
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Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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No Keith just wanted to know why, i am not one to try and score party points one way or the other. Yes i could repeat what someone told me, however if you know more then please enlighten me. I will not blacken someones name and reputation without knowing the facts.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Without whistle-blowers Jimmy Savile would still be an Icon !
The Hospital is not a political issue,it is purely about about Dover and the district receiving the Health provision it deserves
and needs .....
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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true
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Hospitals have beds. Polyclinics don't. So it looks clearer what we're going to get.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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the dover express is about 6 weeks behind the news,it has been broadcast on itv and the bbc news.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Surely polly clinics have perches. Thats not really funny if you're taken ill in Dover and have to go to the William Harvey. I was ambulanced to William Harvey A & E, and spent eleven hours there, about nine in a trolley in a corridor and the rest on a trolley in a room. My wife came to collect me when called by the hospital, although I had received no treatment, and I was in a worse state than I was when admitted. Hospitals are not political ? I would bet good money that they are. I was taken ill about 5 years ago, and I am convinced that if I had gone to the William Harvey and received a similar standard of treatment I would have died in the corridor, Melodramatic maybem but by the standards of treatment I have had there, I pity anyone who goes there.
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The NHS is a mixture of world-class excellence, practices that would disgrace the third world, and everything in between. What quality of treatment you will receive at any given time, however, is a total lottery.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the kent and canterbury is a prime example excellent one minute dire the next.
contacted them the other week to find out why i had not got a further appointment with a neurologist and was told that as i had not turned up for my ct scan i was crossed off the list. i must have imagined going through the scanner with a load of blue dye in my arm.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Trouble is as iv said before, we cant afford to have every service at every hospital; that's reality
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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But where that service is available the service should aim to be the very best not second rate or as in Howard's case very poor or non existent.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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That is just not good enough, do buses even run to Dover from Ashford at 4.30 in the morning, obviously we must now make sure we are dressed and can afford a taxi if taken ill late at night. For those that have never had the delight of a public transport visit to William Harvey it is an awful journey that requires a change of bus at Folkestone.
That is unless we are among the following....."Criteria now include wheelchair users, those who can only be conveyed on a stretcher and "high-dependency" patients who require a highly qualified medical crew.".........I would have thought if a patient was in the "high dependency" category they should be in hospital and not be sent home.
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Probably not Howard. This is about shifting care nearer home. The community professionals will probably work out of Buckland to
1. stop people being admitted
2. allow earlier discharges
3. take pressures off A & E's
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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if that is the case paul then it gets my unqualified support.
the article goes on to say about cutting in the colonoscopy unit which i agree with, i found the whole procedure a pain in the backside.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Dr Darren Cocker & the South Kent Coastal clinical Commissioning Group will be setting up the new systems for Dover ,Deal areas. Also includes Folkestone & the Marshes.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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well that makes it a polyclinic dosent it,but not a hospital like our mp trys to make out it is.