Local Press: NHS RIP
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If the below is true it is disastrous. Gloucestershire has became a very bad place to life the NHS (National Health Service) should not be having to make cuts!
the 1st line makes your heart stop ‘ Nine hospitals, two maternity units, 500 jobs and 240 beds face the axe in the most devastating swathe of NHS cuts to hit Gloucestershire.’
Questions How was the local health trust allowed to get this into debt that they have to do this? what is going to be done to minmise problems? Why did national government not step in? – is it cause other Health Trusts are in similar siteration This is all due to the current admistration any faltalities the government and the local health trust admin is to blame!
The Problem is that other health trusts this could happen to – and government should concentrating it DO NOT Happen again
Below is the article that was in local press and online
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10:30 – 11 May 2006 |
| Nine hospitals, two maternity units, 500 jobs and 240 beds face the axe in the most devastating swathe of NHS cuts to hit Gloucestershire.
Health chiefs face a funding blackhole of £40 million – and have been told to balance their books within this financial year. Yesterday they announced cuts across the board – and said they weren’t open to consultation.
Some 240 of the county’s 1,600 hospital beds will close. Delancey Hospital in Leckhampton will shut. The first ward will close this summer. Many of its patients are likely to be treated at home or in the private sector. Cheltenham General’s maternity unit will close and all obstetrics will move to Gloucestershire Royal in Gloucester. A nurse-led unit at Battledown children’s ward will not go ahead. The A &E department at Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal will come under review as the NHS looks at pooling resources with the GP out-of-hours service. Winchcombe Hospital will close and more services will be provided at Tewkesbury. Cinderford’s Dilke Hospital will shut, and when the Forest of Dean’s other hospital at Lydney goes, it will be replaced by a new ‘health campus’. Stroud’s maternity hospital will close to inpatients. Berkeley Hospital will close eventually, along with Dursley’s Sandpits Clinic. They will be replaced with a new health centre in Dursley. Plans are in hand to move inpatient services for elderly people with mental health problems at Holly House in Gloucester, Stroud’s Weavers Croft and Colliers Court in Cinderford to another site. The ambulance station at Newent will close. Health chiefs say the cuts will make treatment more efficient and effective. It is hoped most of the 500 NHS jobs will be saved through natural wastage and a recruitment freeze but redundancies are an option. The four chief executives, Paul Lilley, from the Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust, Caroline Fowles, from Cheltenham and Tewkesbury PCT, Richard James from Cotswold and Vale PCT and Stephen Golledge, from West Gloucestershire, announced the further cuts yesterday at the West Gloucestershire HQ at the Highnam Business Centre, Gloucester. When asked if he felt guilty about the wide cuts, Mr Golledge said: "I feel concerned that we’re having to address the problem quickly but it’s been made very clear to us that the NHS in Gloucestershire and beyond needs to balance its books and get on with it. "We need to take radical decisions to ensure we have services in place fit for the 21st century." Industrial action was not ruled out by Peter Robbins, chairman of the committee which represents eight unions in the county’s two main hospitals. He said: "I’ve never been an advocate of striking in the health service because it affects the patients. "But I can’t rule out some sort of action. We have already talked about a protest march." Labour party members blamed the situation on local mismanagement while the Conservatives jumped on Gloucestershire’s raw deal in funding. In a joint statement, the primary care trusts and hospital chief executives said: "We are very proud of the services we offer to patients. "However, we still need to make savings and ensure that we live within our means. To do this we need to speed up our plans to change services if we are to meet the needs of patients in the future." Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood, said: "The closure of the maternity unit would strike at the heart of our town. "Without it, there will be no more Cheltonians, in the old-fashioned sense of the word, because almost no one will be born in the town. "Instead, people will have to face a dangerous extension in drive time, during a stressful period, through an unfamiliar urban landscape in Gloucester city." Gloucestershire’s Tory MPs Geoffrey Clifton-Brown for Cotswold, Mark Harper for Forest of Dean and Laurence Robertson for Tewkesbury have written a letter to the Health Secretary raising their ‘grave’ concerns, and requesting an urgent meeting. They have also tabled a series of parliamentary questions. Mr Robertson said: "We should be advancing in health provision not regressing. We are paying far more tax and getting fewer services." Mr Clifton-Brown said: "The people of Gloucestershire, and the elderly in particular, will undoubtedly be the first to suffer as a result of the incompetence of the Department of Health, and the financial mismanagement of our NHS." An emergency meeting of Gloucestershire County Council is being called to discuss the cuts. The health scrutiny committee will discuss them today. An emergency meeting of all councillors will follow as soon as it can be arranged. The council passed a motion condemning the £70 million gap in government funding that Gloucestershire is facing. Speaking at the meeting yesterday, chairman of the council’s health scrutiny committee, Coun Andrew Gravells (C Abbey), said: "I don’t do this job to watch yet another nail put into the coffin of the NHS. "The people of Gloucestershire deserve more." |
- Blame Blair and all his Health ‘policies’ and the unproven war wasting Money!
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. There’s just one problem: Instead of shipping in November, as per the original plan, WMP 11 will now ship in a public beta during that month, coinciding with Longhorn Beta 2. The final release is roughly scheduled for early 2006. 
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to my friend Aurora. Must put WMP 11 in my diary 
in my 22 years – by now its in my head you going to get a hour less sleep but i just wake up 1 hour later – no lost. same when the time is adjusted back i wake up early – it takes a few days to adjust. Also its all satellite or computer based except my watch and that takes about 1 minute to adjust.
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- she can not even spell her nickname/ name right 
Just contacted my mum and she got the card – yey panic averted 
Hopefully the she got the card i sent to her. I called her at 2am in the morning earlier (just after i got back yesterday to wish ‘happy birthday’ (she did not have the card then 
) but hopefully its there now.
if you not at my uni either 
and they put a message contradicting this as you sign in saying that within 14 days of password expiring you get prompts informing you that your password is to expire but i not got any prompt yet so i assuming mine due to go more then 14 days in 
but is being brought forward with 2 days warning 
. I starting to think if it going to return 
but while it was down i increased my news research sites which now include
- i was even tipped of of Windows Live Local by the team at virtual earth before the above sites 
