Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
spoke to the dover mp yesterday,and asked him a few questions about what he has done for dover.he rambled on for a few minuits about this that and all and sundry.the so called new hospital [polyclinic to you] got mentiond.
so I asked him why it wasent a fully fledged hospital,with all the wards we needed like materaty,childrens ward,medical and surgical wards etc.as regards the surgical ward and theaters he said and I will quote "health and safety",unquote.
so the question is why do we dovorians have to travel to one of the other 3 hospitals to have majour surgery and why arnt they coverd by health and safety.
end of rant.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i thought health and safety would be improved by more facilities at a hospital, i never expected wards as such but an accident and emergency dept would have been great.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
With respect to our beloved MP what a load of tosh, H&S is the scapegoat excuse used yet again.
The main reason we and numerous other areas have lost or are going to loose their proper hospital is quite simply to save money, less nurses, less doctors, less ancillary staff, put simply a polyclinic is cheaper to run as the building is so much smaller.
I can understand having to travel to the other three if you have something seriously wrong with you that requires top notch specialist help or needs the use of really expensive equipment, but as an example having a baby is normally straight forward as is most other hospital care.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
if we had a proper hospital in dover,we joe public of dover wouldn't have to travel to visit or get home after surgery by public transport,when and if they deside to chuck you out in the early hours of the morning with no public transport.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
VOTE CONSERVATIVE ,,GET NOTHING
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I agree with you howard about the a & e,but it would need a small surgical suite to back it up.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 4,010
Our Hospital should have intermediary beds ( step down beds ) Health Authorities policy
for patients recovering from operations to be placed in Residential Homes is medieval.
Our Hospital should have been built on land where it could expand.
Our Hospitals in East Kent are bursting at the seams.
One only has to use the clinics to know the system is not going to cope in the future.
Guest 938- Registered: 13 May 2013
- Posts: 36
You only have one person to blame for this don't we Mr C.E.
Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
- Posts: 759
you cant just blame one person!!! Use your common sense People !!
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Maya Angelou ☺🌈🌄🌌🌏🌍🌎
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
our last honourable member sat on his hands whilst buckland was run down and our new honourable member uses slight of hand to convince us that we will have a proper hospital.
not even a minor injuries unit and the knock on effect will be the closure of deal hospital.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
I have asked the Care Commissioning Group about intermediate care beds and there are no plans for them - at present.
There is deemed to be adequate provision locally and with home-care being stepped up, beds at Buckland will not be required.
That's what I - and the rest of the Scrutiny committee, have been told.
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
smoke and mirrors roger.more like cash cut backs.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
People do get better quicker at home Brian.
Roger
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
Not so roger
A GP cannot run test from you bedside, that can be run in hospital
Observation beds are needed ,we have people dying of goldstones infection because GPs cannot run tests at home.
The GPs contracts financially reward GPs not to send people to hospital ,, when that is exactly the place they should be.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
Jan, I quote a senior consultant, " the most dangerous time of your life is being born and giving birth". The attitute that labour is "safe" led to the removal of doctors from birthing units and the increase in deaths of both mothers and babies.
Guest 943- Registered: 15 May 2013
- Posts: 449
NHS will be a major issue in 2015..Charlie and Clair watch out!
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
Peter, it has been a major issue since its conception, a political football used because of its importance to all. Sadly, whilst the politicions enjoy the point scoring the poor staff bear the brunt of the changes they make, both in patient care, service delivery and new guidelines, all costly. There are no easy answers but, in my opinion, those who actually deliver the services need to listen more to those on the recieving end, just as I would not dream of telling a mechanic how to fix my car I can still help him reach a diagnosis by informing him of the symptoms!
Guest 943- Registered: 15 May 2013
- Posts: 449
Lesley, good valid post.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
I told you what was happening in A/E on this forum ,the response from some members was very critical .
