Winter visits to hospital

[Sanddancer]

On such a night you wonder about the wisdom of moving hospital facilities so far away.....Gridlock reported on the A689. I hope there is no emergency in the next few hours

[norfolkngoode]

 No wisdom involved, in fact it would appear that very little thought was involved either.

[Inspector Knacker]

I notice they're in the Mail tonight celebrating their all singing all dancing bus service to North Tees. Sadly, their vision differs somewhat sharply from mine... if they were going to pillage our hospital facilities and condemn us to trudging through to the depressing tribute to concrete known as North Tees, the very least the 'trust' could do is provide and subsidise a regular, direct service using a full size vehicle with disabled access operating to a proper timetable .... celebrating a pre booked ride in a Transit minibus driven by volunteers isn't an option that comes anywhere near acceptable in my view.

[Mr Mister]

The service will be scrapped 3 months after the last of the services have been removed from Hartlepool, is my view.

[steveL]

Love this bit of Hospital Trust spin - are we to conclude that winter didn't happen in areas covered by other hospital trusts?

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/health/local-health/winter-affected-death-rate-say-health-bosses-who-have-seen-unusually-high-mortality-rates-in-hartlepool-and-stockton-1-6301557