Well That's That Then - No More Wynyard.

[steveL]

Much more to this than the Trust's spin is allowing us to know but we'll soon be publishing it anyway. For the time being, I suggest everyone checks out the bus fares to North Tees. 

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/health/health-matters/health-boss-at-centre-of-300m-wynyard-hospital-plans-steps-down-1-5858722

[fred c]

I wonder who could end up with that little number whoever it is i hope he didn`t need to wear a monkey suit for the interview.

[Lord Elpus]

Rumours abound that Oxley walked away with £450,000. 

[steveL]

Roll-Up Roll-Up for Another Chance to Have Your Views Completely Ignored.

HEALTH chiefs are giving residents further opportunities to have a say on controversial plans to move remaining critical care services out of the University Hospital of Hartlepool.

Public consultation is currently ongoing about proposals to centralise emergency medical and critical care services at the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton.

Residents now have further chances to attend several drop-in sessions to find out more about the plans, which will cost £2.3m and affect 10,000 patients.

Health chiefs say the changes need to happen because of "significant" concerns and stress while the current service is safe, it is not sustainable to meet rising standards.

The drop-in sessions will take place between noon and 2pm on:

• Wednesday, July 24 at Asda, in Marina Way
• Thursday, July 25 at One Life Hartlepool, in Park Road
• Friday, July 26 at Central Library, in York Road

People can find out more at any time during the events, which are part of the 12-week consultation.

The plans would see all emergency admissions go to North Tees, four emergency medical wards close at Hartlepool with a total of 135 beds removed and the jobs of around 200 people affected.

Also, the critical care unit at Hartlepool, which includes two intensive care beds and two high-dependency beds, relocated – to add to North Tees's 12-bed critical care unit.

Hartlepool hospital would become a centre for day case and low-risk operations with an increase in medical rehabilitation beds.

It follows a review by the National Clinical Advisory Team (NCAT) after concerns from staff. The review recommended the centralisation of critical care and emergency medicine services as soon as possible.

NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG, and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust are leading the consultation.

Responses can also be submitted to: Communication and Engagement, FREEPOST NEA9906, Middlesbrough, TS2 1BR or by email to: mynhstees@nhs.net. The deadline is August 11.

[marky]

Stockton MP Calls for end of Uncertainty Over New Hospital

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/incoming/stockton-mp-james-wharton-says-5145949

[rabbit]

Just to add a link to the "Transformation Consultation", Steve.

http://www.hartlepoolandstocktonccg.nhs.uk/content/page.aspx?page=97

All of this makes you wonder what the powers to be were thinking of when they first had the brilliant and no doubt trumpeted announcement of the building of the hospital at Hartlepool ib the 1960s?

[Inspector Knacker]

What is the point....? Yet anothet exercise in  ' consultation' which is no such thing..... they tell you what they're going to do and your opinion will chsnge nothing, because you're up against a machine that's going to do just what it wants because it makes the rules.
We're left with an empty carcass of a once busy hospital that became an organ donor to keep ailing North Tees alive.

[Inspector Knacker]

Once everything has been shipped through to Noth Tees and the only thing left in Hartlepool General is the plaster on the walls, then the mirage of a new hospital will vapourise...... we had a fully functioning general hospital and it looks like we've lost the lot but been offered a 17 seat mini bus staffed by volunteers to compensate. Only in Hartlepool.

[bill]

Funny how none of this is mentioned on their Facebook wall ......it is just full of happy clappy stuff!

[no6bus]

Much more to this than the Trust's spin is allowing us to know but we'll soon be publishing it anyway. For the time being, I suggest everyone checks out the bus fares to North Tees. 

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/health/health-matters/health-boss-at-centre-of-300m-wynyard-hospital-plans-steps-down-1-5858722

£5 day rider plus ticket or free for concessionary pass holders

[Inspector Knacker]

£5 day rider plus ticket or free for concessionary pass holders

Let's get down to practicalities. If you live on the Headland that's three bus journeys to get to North Tees and you can actually get to Newcastle quicker by public transport. The journey is an endurance and if ever there was an incentive to get a car, it's travelling on the 36 bus ........!

[no6bus]

£5 day rider plus ticket or free for concessionary pass holders

Let's get down to practicalities. If you live on the Headland that's three bus journeys to get to North Tees and you can actually get to Newcastle quicker by public transport. The journey is an endurance and if ever there was an incentive to get a car, it's travelling on the 36 bus ........!

It's actually 2 buses from the headland to the general!.

There needs to be a bus from the town direct to north tees. Picking up across the town but after the town boundary direct to north tees no diverting through Billingham or norton

[Inspector Knacker]

Two much shorter journies. ......! However, I agree it's time the trust coughed up for a regular time tabled service using full sized fully accessible vehicles, rather than quick fix short term  stop gap gimmicks done on the cheap that have the life expectancy of a snowball in hell once the subjects out of the public eye........... it's the very least they can do after all they've tookoff us.

[no6bus]

Possibly worth people contacting stagecoach and the council to push for this service

[rabbit]

The following document

http://www.hartlepoolandstocktonccg.nhs.uk/includes/documents/NHS_NECSU_Transformation_A5_4ppWEB.pdf

shows that the powers to be are thinking about transport, but the link that they provide to the local Clinical Commissioning Group website doesn`t reveal anything about buses.

www.hartlepoolandstocktonccg.nhs.uk

The C.C.G. does say though, that

"We will plan integrated, efficient patient pathways"

A network of pedestrian footpaths or cycleways perhaps?