Save Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Our Health, Our Care, Our Say

This is the title of the Government's Whitepaper on Health care.
The paper want's the NHS to be transformed into a Community based service for many patients, however as the the title implies, it is OUR HEALTH, OUR CARE and WE WILL HAVE OUR SAY, make no mistake about it Mr Blair.
The idea of putting more treatments into the community is not a new one and it will be a shift away from Hospitals BUT where are these Community Surgeries? Where are the WORKING models?
Can the improvements be shown? What about patient safety?

At the PCT meeting on Wednesday it was recognised that there is a reluctance of Patients to take up treatment elsewhere other than their LOCAL HOSPITAL.

So we need to be motivated especially after the SHA's latest announcement regarding throughput to Hospitals and this is connected with the whitepaper.
In the A & E figures for Hinchingbrooke they are 6,000 patients less than HInchingbrooke said at the recent Public events and the 40% activity is yet to be proved, looks like some misleading numbers are being banded about to "persuade" the public that CLOSING the SERVICES at their LOCAL HOSPITAL is the "right thing to do" and "the best for all"...................EErr, don't think so............. because it's

Our Health, Our Care, Our Say