Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
if only our mp got one like this for dover,would have been well happy along with thousands of others.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
that's a nice hospital.the only wish is to have one in dover like it.
Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
- Posts: 759
keep wishing for it Brian :) you never know
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
just a pipe dream, the likelihood of dover having a fully functional hospital was scuppered when the emergency services said their contingency plans in the event of something nasty happening in the channel meant that margate, ashford and canterbury provided the support they needed.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
You're right Howard, but it was scuppered more by the fact that it has been determined that 2 hospitals can cope with 500,000 and we have 3, plus Buckland for around 600,000.
With new thoughts of "help at home" and investments in "social care", it is thought that the demand for intermediate care-beds, is reduced.
Roger
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
Roger, how will that tally with KCC cutting social care?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
I understand that the CCG (Care Commissioning Group) are working with KCC, but don't know far they've got, Lesley.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
kcc are cutting the social care budget but this is not necessarily a bad thing.
i remember one of their top councillors explaining how they would get around the coalition cuts and he made good sense - basically there would be more people staying in their own homes rather than going to care homes, with regular visits from care staff.
surely that is better than being shunted off to a strange place full up with zimmer frsmes and being force fed cabbage?
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
that report is over 5 years old keith, if it still applies today my gp must be losing money hand over fist with the time and effort he has made in getting me appointments with consultants
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
Howard, much as I agree with you that it is better to stay in your own home there are cases when that is not an option. We then have the problem of finding a suitable care home and with KCC cutting back ( i.e. Sampson Court) affordable options are stretching peoples budgets.
I have seen both sides of the care system and although the CCG is better than nothing it still leaves a lot to be desired. How horrified we have been to see the reports of neglect and abuse reported at care homes and hospitals in the news and this gives rise to the question, are the right people making a career out of caring?
Currently we are being told that lack of care of the elderly is costing the NHS millions and that we should be addressing the issue of preventative treatments. Which brings us back to the point, where are the hospital beds for those that need treatment?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
"Which brings us back to the point, where are the hospital beds for those that need treatment?"
Possibly blocked by those that years ago would have gone into a Convalescence Home for that intermediate care prior to going back to their own home or into a care home.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
they could put one like that in dover,if they clawed the money back from the bailed out banks.
