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Galadriel
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 Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 10:54:01 PM
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Surprised when I logged on that no-one has discussed what's happening with the Alfred Bean Hospital. There's been enough in the local paper since before xmas on the proposed plans. What do forum members think? Is anybody planning on being part of the proposed demonstration next tuesday or are people not bothered if the hospital closes?
I personally think it will be a very sad day but I believe the PCT has made up its mind whatever other people think. I wonder if they could be prosecuted under the Human Rights Act, for instance, under the section including denying people the right to a life free from fear.
I'm sure the elderly especially, would be in fear if there was no local facility and they had to be transported to somewhere like Goole! Any comments? |
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Rod Hebblewhite
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Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 07:51:07 AM
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| Me and the wife will be there, and also at the meeting in Brid, we need to do whatever we can to keep our local hospitals, I read that two babies had been born at the roadside between Brid and Scarborough because of the cuts, this is unacceptable in this day and age and we must fight to keep these services, anyone wishing to join the demo should be at the Four Winds next Tuesday morning at 10am. |
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plook
Advanced Member
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Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 8:14:22 PM
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| The closure of the Alfed Bean Hospital in driffield is a sacrilidge it provideds a needed service for the area.THe Driffield area and surrounding villages are badly provided for especialy if you are elderly and are not a car driver. If you require the services of an A/E department you can attend Bridlington or Beverly providing your injury is minor or if you require the services of a propper A/E Dept youcan go to Scarborough or Hull. The closure is to save money by the PCT. Since PCT's were created a vast amount of mony has been wasted, in Hull and the East Riding four Chief Executives , and four of anything else up till fairly recently when they merged to form an organisation similar to the disbanded Health Authority. Health is everyones right and the facilities to care for the community Driffield serves stands with a beacon that is the Alfred Bean Hospital. Yes I will be there. |
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zoe j
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Posted - 15 Jan 2007 : 8:15:19 PM
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I too think a decision on the Alfred Bean Hospital has already been made, but it is still worth fighting for, (the hospital has been run down gradually in the past few years) We need a local hospital, Driffield and the surrounding villages are expanding all the time, the population is an ageing one who will need a local hospital, not one miles away involving a longer journey, especially for minor problems.
The public were supposed to have freedom of choice over which hospital we wish to be treated at, some choice!!, too many things are chosen for us,we should remember this at the next election, give us back democracy,. Keep Alfred Bean open, instead close down the pct offices, we need carers and nurses, not pen-pushers. |
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Michael
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Posted - 22 Mar 2007 : 7:35:29 PM
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HEALTH BOSSES DELAY KEY MEETING
East Riding of Yorkshire PCT Press Release - 22 March 2007
Recommendations on the future commissioning strategy for community services in the East Riding of Yorkshire will not be taken until May 2007 because of the high level of response to the consultation exercise.
East Riding of Yorkshire Primary Care Trust had hoped to present key findings and recommendations to the Board meeting on 28 March 2007.
Interim Chief Executive Claire Wood said: “The overwhelming response to the consultation proposals means that no recommendations will be made until the Board meeting to be held on 23 May 2007”.
More than 3,000 responses to the consultation proposals were received.
Claire Wood confirmed: “Over 3,000 responses were received by the PCT and more time is needed given the enormity of the response. Nearly 1,000 of the responses were received in the last week and due to this and the variety and range of views given, we have decided it is right that more time is taken to ensure the feedback is considered properly and thoroughly.”
"This is why recommendations will not be presented to the PCT Board until May 2007." |
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plook
Advanced Member
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Posted - 22 Mar 2007 : 8:36:30 PM
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| I have written to the PCT twice regarding centralisation of services including the closure of community hospitals. I intend to write to my MP. |
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LizzieJ
Above Average Member
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Posted - 19 Apr 2007 : 07:59:29 AM
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| When I first came to East Yorkshire from Wiltshire one of the first places my bloke took me to was the Alfred Bean hospital (he sure knows how to woo a girl!) and I was impressed at the efficiency, cleanliness and friendliness of the place. I think it would be very sad to lose this delightful little community hospital and hope that your campaign to save it will be successful. Lizzie |
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plook
Advanced Member
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Posted - 29 Apr 2007 : 08:35:59 AM
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I agree that the population of villages are expanding .It is well known that there is a move from towns and cities to the countryside. Take Hornsea Hospital dealing with a population of Hornsea that increases in the summer, in Witherensea the same happens as well as a transient population living throughout the year in Caravans. In the 1960's Driffield had its own Surgival Unit, Medical Unit and Childrens ward as well as wards for the sick eldeley. It had its own pathology department, laundry, dispensary and Xray Dept.There was also a TB hospital up at Northfield all have been sold or the land sold leaving the remaining Alfred Bean Hospital with its minor injuries unit and GP run wards. Where has the money gone from the sale off this property? What was done with the money cloyed back from these sales. Its probably gone to pay for four chief executives , four chief nurses and four accountants and other managerial hangers on and dross. It has not gone into providing a health service that the people of Driffield deserve, more nurses, more midwives,more doctors improved emergency services, xray services etc. Bridlington Hospital run by the failing Scarborough Hospital trust is underfunded, underused and under staffed and undersupported. It is therefore not an alternative to the Alfred Bean Hospital.
The PCT should be looking to provide better services not closing down the limited services that currently exist.
I note that there has been no comment from this website from the PCT some of whos staff are located at what was the Four Wind Cafe! |
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DF
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Posted - 02 May 2007 : 5:43:20 PM
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I went to the last meeting at the 3B's (Leisureworld) BRIDLINGTON.
No need to wonder why they are cutting back services or where our money goes - there were 13 of them on stage!!! and practically all decisions were postponed until May or June "awaiting results of inquiries" I wonder how much they cost??
Like Driffield we had an Isolation Hospital on Bempton Lane (now sold for housing) A Maternity Hospital and care for the elderly at The Avenue (now sold for housing) Lloyd Hospital for operations etc. (now sold for a Church). We all donated money towards the new Hospital. The league of Hospital Friends raised money for equipment.
All the "management" want to do is make everyone travel to Scarborough or Hull in order to make money out of us for car parking; Never mind what it might be doing to the environment.
PLEASE get on to this website now http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SAVEBRIDLINGTON
WE NEED OUR LOCAL HOSPITALS - MAKE THEM LISTEN - ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LIST. |
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Galadriel
Advanced Member
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Posted - 26 May 2007 : 9:17:09 PM
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| Unfortunately, a relative of mine had cause to use Bridlington Hospital a couple of weeks ago - what a farce! My relative was diagnosed wrongly, the place was filthy and there were hardly any staff about. Am not saying this is all the staff's fault but my relative was then readmitted to HRI and the difference was unbelievable. Prompt diagnosis was made and treatment started straight away, the staff could not do enough to help and the consultants were great. That's also how it is at Alfred Bean - the place is central with decent facilities and with the potential to become excellent. Try getting to Goole in the middle of winter - ok I accept there's global warming but we can still get some bad weather in winter. And you won't get any answere from ERYPCT on this website - they'll quote Data Protection Act etc etc! |
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Michael
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Posted - 27 Jun 2007 : 10:31:00 AM
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Is this the end of NHS in-patient beds in Driffield?
East Riding of Yorkshire PCT - Press Release June 27th 2007
Recommendations will be made to East Riding of Yorkshire PCT’s Board today to approve substantial investment in community health services across the East Riding of Yorkshire. The Board will also be recommended to support the submission of a range of capital bids to secure funds from the Department of Health for new builds and modernisation of existing facilities across the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The proposals are being made as a result of public consultation on “A New Start for Community Health Services” which ran for 14 weeks from 30 November 2006 to 8 March 2007. At its meeting held in public on 23 May 2007, the East Riding of Yorkshire PCT Board discussed the outcomes from the public consultation and, based on an appraisal of the original options set out in the consultation document, agreed to progress the development of an outline business case based on Option C (Bridlington, Goole and Beverley) with a range of identified variants. The variants meant further consideration of the retention of a higher proportion of NHS community beds at a greater number of existing sites.
If approved, the proposed changes will eventually see:
- The establishment of new 24-hour neighbourhood health teams made up of nursing staff, social services staff and therapists working together, supported by additional specialists and GPs.
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- NHS provided in-patient beds being retained at Withernsea Community Hospital in addition to Beverley, Goole and Bridlington.
The neighbourhood health teams will provide services to meet the needs of patients who need urgent care by providing a rapid response. The teams will also provide services for patients requiring less urgent interventions and rehabilitation. The teams will deliver this care within a variety of settings including patients’ own homes, community hospitals, other health and/or local authority premises or premises owned by the independent sector. The rapid response element will be delivered on a 24 hour a day, seven days a week basis, as the teams will be supported by multi-professional/disciplinary teams operating in the “out of hours” periods to deliver urgent care services.
Claire Wood, Interim Chief Executive said “the new plans will mean that every year 3,000 more patients will receive their care in the East Riding, instead of having to travel outside the area”.
Dinah Fuller, Clinical Executive/Board Nurse confirmed that “a key aim is to take a wider range of services into the community where they can be delivered more flexibly and conveniently for patients”.
The plans mean that more staff and health service money will be focused on NHS services in our local communities with less money being spent on services commissioned from larger hospitals outside the area.
Claire Wood stated “Standing still is not an option. We have listened to the many views expressed and deliberations have been lengthy about the future of community hospitals and we are now in a position to recommend plans to provide a secure future for them. We must however make changes to many of the current facilities, particularly the older hospitals. We need to move the emphasis of services away from bricks and mortar to more of a primary-led NHS and that is our challenge!”
The Board will be recommended to support a range of capital bids which will enable new builds to take place in Beverley and Hornsea and refurbishment of the Alfred Bean Hospital, Driffield and parts of the Bridlington and Goole Hospitals. The capital bids would also include proposals for the development of primary and community facilities in the West Wolds.
If the Board approves the recommendation, an investment business case will be submitted to the Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority by 9 July 2007. A full business case will then be submitted and it is expected that the PCT will know whether this is successful by October/November 2007.
Karen Knapton, Chairman of the Board confirmed that “If the proposals are accepted the changes will need to be carefully planned and implemented. We appreciate that patients will be anxious about the proposed changes and we recognise the need to ensure community based service are available to patients as the changes are being made.”
She added “We have involved the public and partners in our decision making and we will build on this in the future. We are keen to keep a high level of engagement as we move forward with this significant investment”.
The PCT’s Board meeting will be held in public on Wednesday 27 June 2007 at 9.30 am in the Civic Hall, Market Green, Cottingham, HU16 5QG.
The Civic Hall has available seating for 100 people. For health and safety reasons, admittance will be restricted to 100 people and, at the request of key members of the community, seats will be reserved to ensure communities are fairly represented. |
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plook
Advanced Member
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Posted - 27 Jun 2007 : 10:12:59 PM
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What happens to the Alfred Bean whilst the proposed bids go ahead?
What happens if the capital bid fails for the refurbishment of the Alfred Bean?
How are the public assured that there will be a co-ordinated response from Social Services when they currently couldent co-ordinate a booze up in a brewery? (Based on experience).
Mrs Wood states," We need to move the emphasis of services away from bricks and mortar to more of a primary-led NHS and that is our challenge!”
You bet it is love but where is the focus of this emphysis, the GP surgery?, the opatients own home? or a community based facility ( an upgraded Alfed Bean Hospital)all are required including a comprehensive emergency service that allows patients to be treated as near to their homes as possible not trungled to Scarborough Hospital or Hull Royal Infirmary.
What staff make up this 24 hour response team? How many individuals, where are they based? How are they contacted and by whom? And what grades of staff will be included?
What capital bids are required for Bridlington and Goole when these facilities are under used and relatively new?
These are just some of the questions.
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Galadriel
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 Jun 2007 : 10:59:12 PM
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What bothers me when I read the report was the line 'we need to move services away from bricks and mortar to more of a primary led NHS' OH YES!! and pray tell how that will happen? Does that mean that grieving relatives won't have to wait nearly SIX hours for an on-call doctor to come and certify the death of a loved one as in a case that happened recently? Why beds retained at Withernsea? They are just down the road and a main road at that from Hull and god forbid they keep beds going at Bridlington hospital - one of the most filthy dirt infested places it's ever been my misfortune to enter! Not only that but the place is Ghostville - there's never anybody about.
Well that's me had my rant and rave - need to go lie down in a darkened room! |
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plook
Advanced Member
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Posted - 28 Jun 2007 : 10:57:00 AM
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I'm sorry to say this but I think this proposal is a confidence trick.
The PCT's aim is to save money not spend it.
Mrs Wood does not say what services in the Acute Sector will be curtailed, if any, to provide funding to support her capital bids.
Capital bids are not approved by a Health Authority unless they are well supported. If we agree to this proposal and the bid fails Alfred Bean closes.
The PCT will be terribly sorry but it is "out of their hands". We have heard this one before Mrs Wood.
As for the filthy state of Bridlington Hospital, well this is the responsibility of Scarborough Hospital who manage the place.
All hospitals are expected to be inspected by competent people to ensure that they are clean and hygienic. If this is not happening at Bridlington Hospital then I suggest you write to the Chief Executive at Scarborough with copies to the Director of Infection Control( who will be on a salary of approximately £100,000 a year) and our MP., because if you don't nothing will change. State Specific issues that you have witnesses and when.
The filth you describe is due to cost saving measures, poor training,insufficient numbers of staff to carry out the work in an alloted time, poor supervision, inspection and management. |
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grog
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Posted - 04 Jul 2007 : 2:45:21 PM
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I thought that Government, whether local or national, was supposed to listen to the people they represent. I saw a film recently that mentioned that people should not be afraid of government BUT that government should be afraid of the people - HOW TRUE.
I am not very political BUT it does annoy me when decisions affecting the ordinary person is NOT considered by the politician. They seem to do their own thing irrespective of what the outcome is, as long as they have their snouts in the trough the ordinary folk can go to hell.
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Galadriel
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Posted - 04 Jul 2007 : 11:02:40 PM
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So? What are we going to do then?
I watched that woman on Look North tonight - can't even remember her name and she was so convincing - not! as to why Driffield should lose it's beds and even had the nerve to talk about tax payer's money being taken into consideration as to why Driffield should lose out. Someone should tell her to get into the real world.
Has anyone been to Westwood hospital of late and seen how complicated it is to get there through the centre of Beverley now - try that when you're really ill instead of going to your local hospital at Driffield. |
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Michael
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Posted - 04 Jul 2007 : 11:29:49 PM
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In that BBC Look North interview the PCT's Interim Chief Executive Claire Wood revealed that the PCT had received 53,000 responses from the public consultation process.....
I wonder how many of those responses actually asked for OUR hospital to be turned into an impoverished day centre???
So much for a public consultation! |
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DF
Senior Member Member
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Posted - 05 Jul 2007 : 6:03:04 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by Galadriel
So? What are we going to do then? etc.
We must band together and try to make our voice heard.
It took my Brother and his Son 5 and a half hours to get from Rudston to Hull Royal and back last Monday during the floods - try doing that if you are in labour!!! Our local hospitals were good enough for my generation when we had our children and still would be if they hadn't been run down or sold off by the "fat cats" who try to justify their exorbitant incomes.
I see in the Daily Mail today "an extra £50million has been given to hospitals to combat superbugs - the number of infection inspectors on wards will be doubled" Another case of more Cowboys and not enough Indians!! What about the number of cleaners being doubled, trebled or whatever it needs? They just don't have a clue.
DF
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plook
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Posted - 09 Jul 2007 : 7:23:27 PM
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DF
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Posted - 10 Jul 2007 : 5:41:53 PM
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He has my sympathy; it happens all the time. We are in our 70's and had to take my husband to Brid outpatients in the middle of winter at 11.30pm They said we could have an ambulance to Scarborough but would have to find our own way back, so we opted to drive - got back home at 4am
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Originally posted by plook
My friend was seriously assalted and taken by ambulance to Scarborough Hospital where they were seen by a doctor and abandoned to find their own way home at 03.00hrs.
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plook
Advanced Member
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Posted - 11 Jul 2007 : 11:12:26 AM
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I hope Mrs Wood reads this and Mr Adle****e, or whatever his name is, Chief Executive at Scarborough Hospital it is a disgrace that organisations that are reputed to be responsible for a standard in Health Care can treat its patients like this. Marks and Sparks or another private organisation could not treat its customers like that or they would go out of business.
For all who read this and are dissatisfied with the standard of care that is provided by any hospital for whatever reason should email their local MP because complaining to a hospital trust gets a smart arse answer by someone who's aim is to meet their set objectives rather than care about people who keep them in their jobs. |
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plook
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Posted - 11 Jul 2007 : 4:45:15 PM
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This is terrible and examples of a third rate service people of Driffield and the surrounding villages get. I hope Mrs Wood and the Chief Executive at Scarborough Hospital read this. Duty of care -what a laugh.
I think people should email and complain to their MP's when they are exposed to a third rate service in any hospital. Then may be we might get something done. |
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Michael
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Galadriel
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Posted - 15 Jul 2007 : 12:24:23 AM
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| Last week on national television our new Prime Minister stated that he was not going to allow the supercasino to go ahead and be built. On the same programme he also stated that no more hospitals would be closed - err! was Mrs Wood listening? Not only that but to send people from this area to hospitals further away will put extra stress on limited ambulance and passenger transport services and incur more costs thereby defeating the aim of saving money in the first place. We will bear the brunt of any cuts and costs saving. And where in all this is the PCT's aim of reducing their carbon footprint - because I for one don't see how they're going to achieve this by their version of care in the community or do they think they're above all this?? |
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plook
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Posted - 16 Jul 2007 : 7:20:23 PM
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There are two issues:
a) Care in the Community. The provision of an up to date Local Health Service that meets the health needs of Driffield and its surrounding villages. A health provision by the PCT that provides dental, psychiatric, maternity , neonatal , paediatric, elderly care, and general care of the adult populations particularly for men ie one stop shops and should include radiography service. This provision should be supported by the PCT led by General Practitioners and in partnership with the local council through social services.
b) Emergency Care.Provided for the population for 24/7. and not a part-time minor injury service. It is suggested that this could be organised through participating General Practitioners that are suitably trained in Emergency Care. When individuals are transferred to Hospitals at Scarborough and Hull from Driffield and the surrounding villages by ambulance arrangements are made to ensure that the injured and carer are transferred back to their home at the PCTs expense as part of their duty of care and not abandoned to find their own way home. |
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Galadriel
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Posted - 28 Sep 2007 : 10:52:31 PM
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| Care in the Community has never worked of late Plook - it stopped working in the early 90's when the govt decided that care meant just personal care and only if you could afford it! As for Emergency care, I say again about transferring patients and carer to hospital and back home - that it will increase the carbon footprint and more ambulances will be needed that the PCT will refuse to provide because of cost cutting! They are talking about opening up parts of Beverley Westwood Hospital again - though I don't know how they will achieve this when they have sold another big chunk of it for housebuilding! Incidentally, I used to think the same as others that we needed more nurses, doctors, etc and less pen pushers, but I have had my mind changed now that someone I know has gone to work at HRI as a 'penpusher'. For instance, did you know that if a nurse has a monday to friday two weeks shift of say monday and tuesday earlies, wednesday late and thursday and friday nights (for which she gets extra) and goes off sick on the first tuesday of the fortnight, she will get paid what she would have worked had she not gone off sick, so you guess how many apply to do nights, then go off sick at the beginning of the shift? Not even TT's favourite people pay like that and I know cos I work for them and I used to do shift work! Don't even get me started on consultants who spend money like it grows on trees and don't care for the consequences on other sectors of the NHS!!! |
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plook
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Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 10:05:38 AM
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| You are quite right but believe me its much better than it was. In the 1980 consultants went and did a private case at the Nuffield or did domiciliary visits whilst the NHS patients either waited in the outpatients or on a ward for their presence. You could tell when surgeons were working at the nuffield on those days they arrived early because they needed to be off. If they were at the nuffield in the morning they returned in the afternoon and their lists went on well into the late evening. A lot were arrogant and despicable to their patients and staff and they were treated like gods because they were untouchable. That does not happen anymore. As for nurses getting paid unsocial hours when they go off sick is madness. Central government in the 1980's ran hospital funding down you could not get the place clean because of the cutbacks the cheapest proposals the cleaning went out to tender, hospital laundries closed, many isolation wards closed now they are finding out that they needed them. Male and female patients were not segregated a wait in out-patients lasted hours. I should say that in the Consultants defence the new ones are much better, curtiouse and consientiouse and that is the result of better traing though you will always find a toad that should have been a carpenter. I have no defence for nurses who are good at giving out treatment but not caring for people. |
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Galadriel
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Posted - 16 Oct 2007 : 10:55:51 PM
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So what are we to do about the proposed closure of the A Bean? Every week in the Driff Times I read about someone who's had a stay there and says how clean and hygenic and how they enjoyed the stay. These people should be writing on the downing street website and to their MP's so the message gets heard or are we going to let the PCT get their own way and close the place down - leaving a gap for the people in this area. Driffield has had a hospital for more years than I can recall and Alfred Bean no doubt meant for his bricks and mortar building to last! Petitions are no good - it has to be individual letters - hundreds and hundreds of them, even if each letter is the same but each one signed by a different person.
The bigger organisations of the town could start things off such as the Lions, Round Table, Women's Institute - each signing an individual letter and the rest of us could follow. Surely some local organisations could offer to fund the cost of the paper used to print the letter - we could each put our own stamp on! |
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slimjim
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Posted - 21 Dec 2007 : 11:44:26 AM
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It seems the decision on the futures of both the Alfred Bean and Bridlington Hospital were all cut and dried long before the public 'consultation'.
The following mission statement is on the East Riding PCT's website homepage!!!
VISION AND VALUES
"Our vision is to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents of the East Riding."
"Our values are to be honest, reliable, respectful, proactive, inclusive and caring and to work with others, to ensure the delivery of effective and efficient services.!"
It also seems that the PCT's decision to turn the hospitals in Driffield and Hornsea into glorified day centres contradicts Central Government's own policies.
Take a look at this NHS Publication (.pdf file) - Titled "Our health, our care, our community: investing in the future of community hospitals and services"
http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=7678&Rendition=Web
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"6.40 Evidence shows that there are a number of benefits of community hospitals, one of which is that they provide better recuperative care than District General Hospitals (DGHs)"
"7.6 People’s voices – their opinions, preferences and views – need to be heard at a local level as that is where the vast majority of spending decisions are taken and where key priorities are set. They need to be heard in a variety of different ways. And they have to count – at present, people do not feel that health and social care organisations listen enough to their views. It is important that these arrangements offer scope to groups – such as children and young people – who do not always have a choice to participate." |
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kroggy
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Posted - 21 Dec 2007 : 11:29:40 PM
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I’m new to the forum so please handle with care –
Driffields population is growing more and more, yet services are being cut and being redirected to more distant towns such as Beverley or Scarborough.
I find it annoying that a town the size of Driffield should have to rely on hospitals that are well over the 20 minute mark before proper medical care can take place, we don’t even have an A/E. With the amount of road accidents that happen on a regular basis around our local roads surely something can be done to promote the ‘Hospital’ as a hospital and not a clinic?
Have Your Say About Driffield
http://www.LetMeHaveMySay.com |
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plook
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Alfred Bean Hospital
