Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 November 2010
19:5481798Please just wait and see what turns up in Dover.
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26 November 2010
20:0481799Surely there was/is a dialysis outreach branch at Buckland. Perhaps Roger can update on this.
Watty
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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26 November 2010
20:0881800The secret going to QEQM at Margate is by train and bus,buy a Ramsgate plus bus train ticket,get off at Ramsgate and wait for the loop bus it goes into the hospital and cheaper than a Margate plus bus ticket.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 November 2010
20:1181801paul
i did think that myself.
john
you are right here, the connections from ramsgate to margate by train are not good, i hadn't thought of the ramsgate plus bus thing.
Brian Dixon
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26 November 2010
20:1681803if my wife has to visit qeqm for any thing medical we usealy go by bus,the wife has a buss pass and i get an explorer ticket [£5,50p] a go.usealy go canterbury ,margate loop bus and revers on the way back which gives us a choise of going to folkestone on the way home.
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26 November 2010
20:1981805Howard, I thought they had a unit where six outpatients could be dialysed locally.
Watty
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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27 November 2010
18:4681934The last I heard, there were 14 (Haemo) dialysis stations at Buckland Hospital - a great service; I hope that Jean won't need to attend there when she has to go onto Haemo early next year.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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8 December 2010
08:4983657Vic was on the money with this one.
See the latest release on the frontpage... just in hot off the wires. Hospital gets go ahead!
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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8 December 2010
09:1883658DDC studied this months ago and all political parties agreed the best place for the Hospital was the Town Centre,what is strange is the Tories are still promoting a Whitfield proper Hospital,but this will not happen unless the close William Harvey or QEQM Hospital as this area is only entitled to 1 and a half Hospitals and we already have 2,so why can't the Tories and Charlie and others stop arguing and leave it alone.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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8 December 2010
09:5983662Well I think the arguing may be over now John following the latest news on our frontpage, but if this was known or surmised some time ago then its odd that the new Tory leaflets are still demanding " a proper hospital" . However I was always unsure as to what the term "proper" actually meant as I have mentioned often before...ermm to the irritation of some!
But Pat Sherratt's all new Tory leaflet just in says...
"Pat wants to see a proper hospital for Dover not Labour's polyclinic"
so the notion is still being pushed.
So will this new one in Buckland see frontpage be regarded as a proper hospital and if so will the Tories claim victory!!?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 December 2010
10:1583664It is not a victory for any party even my own,As a member of the trust and one that goes to the meerting.The New Hospital was always going to be Buckland as i said on the front page ,all the rest was just talk to get votes or hopes ,any other site would have cost more than the £20million the NHS had to build the Hospital, Please do not say it was the blues or the reds or any party,all they done was to hold the plans up,without all of the holdups this Hospital would be up by now. With new Car park for staff and the public,The Blues and Reds should have got behind this right from the start,I was because I did know it was only going there Yes the Whitfield would have been good but it was never,never ,going to happen.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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8 December 2010
10:3083667Vic, your election leaflet calls for 24-hour A&E facilities at both Deal and Dover, yet in your opening post on this thread you ask us to accept what we have been offered at Buckland, i.e. a polyclinic with no A&E. Is this not inconsistent?
PG.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 December 2010
10:5783668i think we have struck lucky on this one, the hospital will include mri, ct scanning equipment, a procedure suite with endoscopy facilities, a renal unit plus a lot of outpatients facilities.
whether this qualifies as a "proper" hospital as promised by andrew lansley is open to debate.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 December 2010
11:1783671I am sure there is still time for certain people our there to stick their oar in and try to scuppler the plans.....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 December 2010
12:1583676Mr Garstin you have not been reading my posts over the weeks, but just to say this again,I am hoping that once the Hos is up and running ,I can go back to the trust and talk about opening a A&E unit, I would like to see them in both of the Hospitals but that is unlikey but we might get it in one of them,I have already talked to the Trust and they told me lets take one thing at a time ,even if we have a 24hr minor unit it would be better then none, That is what I have beening saying and that is what is on my leaflet and it is right. As I said in the press last week I am over the moon with what we are geting,but still room for more,and as a member of the trust that is what I have said.
Jan Higgins
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8 December 2010
12:3283678I do not think what we are getting is anything to be "over the moon about". Yes better than nothing and good news it has been sorted at last, but if someone breaks a leg they will still have to travel miles in pain which is something I did not have to do when I broke mine years ago.
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8 December 2010
12:5483679There are haemodialysis beds at Buckland, but you are usually started off at K & C and I am afraid it is a question of getting a place in Dover when someone gets a transplant or passes away.
Still and all I am very glad that they have finally made a decision, even if it is one with which not everyone will agree. The time has come for everyone to work together and make what we are going to have a success.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 December 2010
12:5983681paul
i have worries too that the politicos might stick their collectove oars in.
a massive amount of referrals from g.p's are for mri/ct scans or endoscopes, will be great not to have to travel huge distances for these procedures.
the accident and emergency issue is rather vague at present, the wording i saw was that the hospital would have 70% of one.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 December 2010
15:0683695To the untrained eye, and looking at an aerial photograph, i don't really see too much of a problem with space as the old workhouse is a very uneconomical use of space and could be utilised a lot better:
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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8 December 2010
15:1583696I think this needs a bit more information -
"The Trust has also confirmed that the plans will include a minor injuries unit staffed by nurse consultants.
The Trust is also committed to working with its GP partners to explore the possibility of extending the opening hours of the centre from 8 am to 8 pm."
A minor injuries unit staffed from 8am to 8pm is what we already have. Is this just bad English or is the plan to have a shorter opening than at present?
Been nice knowing you :)