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  Howard, telimedicine is the practice of using live video links to enable consultants to remotely examine patients.
  The presentation on Dover's new polyclinic, or 'cottage hospital' as they insisted on calling it, was even more suspect. They opened with a timetable of delays since 2008 which explained that all the problems were other peoples fault (first DDC for suggesting a mid-town site and then Charlie for wanting them to reassess a Whitfield site). They then explained that the Buckland site was ideal because they could build a smaller unit and sell the rest of the land for housing development.
  They hope to build what is in essence another health centre in 2013 to open in April 2014, after waiting for the results of a "public consultation" into the birthing unit. After showing a slide showing that they could knock £4million off the cost by not including a maternity unit, they declared that people had "voted with their feet" by 'choosing' (their word) to have their children elsewhere.
  I did ask if this was more to do with the fact that very few are given the option to give birth at Buckland to be told that there was a long list of boxes to be ticked if it was safer to go elsewhere and that, apart from the lucky few, most people were ticking them.
  In the summing up they did show proposed plans for the new clinic and said that if they "did not need" the maternity unit they would only have to build half of the second floor.

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