At a public board meeting in Sherborne last week Dorset Primary Care Trust proposed reducing Swanage Hospital's minor injury unit's opening times from 24 hours to 8am to 10pm.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/purbeck/display.var.1417511.0.hospital_opening_hours_concern.php
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serves you all right for voting labour
If we hadn't there would not be an NHS to run a hospital here.
Don't you just laugh at the futility of these exchanges?
Wouldn't it be more constructive to join together in trying to prevent the proposed reduction?
we are at least 20 miles from a hospital, is Swanage is closed. If you are ill then that is a long, long way !
If you are that ill at two in the morning don't imagine Swanage Hospital is going to do more than send you over to Poole anyway.
Does anyone know how often the A&E is used between 10pm and 8am?
Cuz i don't.
Follow the link to the Echo story and you will find that it is 21 times a month on average.
Dear 10:33
Thanks,I didn't bother to read the article cuz I didn't think that the Echo would include any facts and figure. Silly me!
Well, they say there'll be cosultation and an alternative service.
I've used it twice in the last 5 years and both times found it excellent, mind you both times it was during daylight hours.
That says it all. I think my family has used it out of office hours about twice in nearly 20 years. It is a great comfort to have it there but can the money it costs find a better use? If I had a real emergency I would rather have a paramedic keeping me breathing long enough to get to a proper A&E unit.
It's not about obvious EMERGENCIES. That's still 999/ambulance. It's where you go at night if you have a nasty accident (but know it's not an emergency) or if your child is having trouble breathing but you don't think it's a matter of life of death. One of the problems perhaps is that with such a limited ambulance service, considerate people hesitate to call them unless it's obviously a real emergency. We need somewhere to go if we know it's something that needs attention now, but we don't think is necessarily a matter of life and death.
Dialling 999 gets you a paradmedic. It is not a glorified taxi service. The A&E nurse can carry out only very minor surgical procedures and not much else. Why not give the paramedic training to do this?
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