howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
our chas is currently championing a bill through parliament regarding local communities running their own hospitals, i haven't read about it in detail i have to admit.
there is talk of deal hospital losing many of its services due to the opening of the new super hospital at buckland next year.
in my view charlie is chasing a lost cause if he thinks that deal hospital has a long term future.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#2
The future hot potato concerns the reaction of families who have been Deal or Dover or Folkestone born and bred for generations who now find their future descendants have a choice of Ashford or Maaargit on their birth certificates.
Or Canterbury for that matter, they will probably lose their neonatal unit in due course.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
all very sad as it is important for expectant mums to have close family with then when giving birth and afterwards.
the powers that be insist that centralised birthing units mean higher quality care and nothing to do with cost cutting.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#4
No one outside Dover(or Dovorians come to that) can understand why Dover doesnt have a top class hospital
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#5
I can its due to elf and safety so our mp says.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#6
There is no doubt in my mind that our Dover ``hospital`` should have been built on land to allow expansion.
Having only read the short extract of Charlies Bill it smelt of privatisation I will ask him when next on the phone.
Being involved with several clinics through out East Kent it is obvious they are s;splitting at the seams.
When our Dover ``hospital`` is up and running we will need Deal Hospital to stay in operation it is the only one with step down
beds
The policy to put recovering patients in Residential Homes is medieval.
East Kent will in the future be lacking proper Heath provision.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#7
services will be gradually reduced in deal in much the same way as the present buckland hospital suffered.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
Mr Mcsweeney is right and it is sad to see,I still think that major towns should keep their own hospital with care beds. and work off its on budge toped up by local funding ,I feel there are far to many heath foundation trusts about looking after to few hospitals Two per county I think is about right or even one,We in East Kent have great major hospitals with good staff but they are over worked ,mainly in A@E and this where a local hospital would be a great help all town hospitals should have 24hour A@ E. And there are ways to help this to come about,if a person turns up at a A@ E unit because they have had to much to drink then they pay for any treatment needed and all overseas vistors must pay if they need treatment .Must tell you we are also lucky to have the best run N.H.S, foundation trust in the UKso let them take over running the county with ex funding and staff and close the other ones down and work on the same lines as they are doing now.
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,948
#9
I agree with most of your posting Vic, especially the A & E charging idea, it's common sense but would need an effective method to recover the monies which is currently lacking without involving the hard pressed A & E staff!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Guest 878- Registered: 8 Feb 2013
- Posts: 34
#10
A&E in numbers in East Kent are barely up on last year. It's the other extra referrals, mainly from the GPs, that they are struggling to cope with
jamierose
