Save Hinchingbrooke Hospital

IT'LL BE ALRIGHT ON THE DAY...................OR WILL IT

The PCT got their way with the help from certain newspapers and a poorly action consultation which was nothing short of a sham.
With just short of 100 written responses and 500 leaflets I sent in, out of 165,000 people in Huntingdonshire this shows the level of response.
So don't blame me when your service gets worse and you have to travel to get treatment.
I was at Hinchingbrooke yesterday and while waiting for blood tests there were complaints that treatment was done at Addenbroookes or Peterborough and bloods were taken at Hinchinbrooke but the bloods taken get lost when at the oother 2 hospitals, clearly not a Hinchingbrooke fault.
So why are these folks not going direct to the other hospitals for their tests? or why are the tests not being done at Hinchingbrooke? and why are these samples being transported countywide and at what cost?.......................makes no sense and typical of the "it'll be alright on the day" attitude, muddle along etc.

The same is happening with the Community based services, clearly the PCT wont have spent the £2.3m set aside for the community services by this winter so they have set aside £37,000 to keep the elderly and vulnerable in Hinchingbrooke.
The £2.3m will be speent to set up the service with offices, managers, cars, phones etc. there might be some money left to find anyone bonkers enough to become a Social Care worker and to provide some care.
The Social Care worker will be a Homecare Plus worker, but not  a Nurse.
Obviously this raises concerns and also there are other issues with their personal safety as indicated in the news this last week and health workers being attacked and abused.
As for health issues, at  what point would a person who is being cared for in the commnuity be admitted back to hospital?should they need it.................
Who makes that decision?
A community midwife who was on call had to go out last week to a lady after she had been sent by the Labour ward, this midwife is very experienced, the midwife then sent the lady straight into Hinchingbrooke. This was a wasted journey and it is not isolated, this was supposed to save money but in reality it wastes it and the main reason for sending the community midwife out was because of  short staffing levels.
So..........will it be alright on the day............................

as it stands.................NO...............the PCT is a fragmented organisation with small offices scattered around the county and the main HQ on the Suffolk border.............DOH! as Homer Simpson says.
Time to relocate to the Hinchingbrooke site to save money..................
No Ida Darwin, no Priory, no Scott House etc. just one Hinchingbrooke HQ, centre of the County, access to secondary services on site..................job done and with this in place it could be allright on the day...............