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CzinZumerzet · 03-07-2007, 08:23 AM

Imagine a capital letter L as the rough shape of a town which has developed in the past twenty or so years. The right angled joint of the upright/baseline is the centre of the original Victorian town where the old town hospital was. It is now redeveloped as luxury housing. The upright is the growth of the new part of town, currently the largest single housing conurbation in Western Europe. And still growing. And finally the horizontal flat line representing the gigantic retail devopment outside of town and at the tip of the line is the site of the new hospital built in the early 1990's.

The 16 year old hospital is now much too small for the growing town but as it's built on a flood plain 1/4 mile from the beach....feel it coming...it can't be enlarged in any direction. And anyway the PCT is almost 11 million in the red, so now the children's ward is closed and maternity is going to follow, with potential users having to bus or drive to Bristol, 21 miles away. Think of that in a seaside resort town of young families, kids and pregnant mums. The colossal waste of resources over previous years couple with addled thinking and planning just reduces us to a state of despair but there is some small consolation. With MRSA and C.Dificile now featuring on 38% of death certificates who in their right mind wants to go into hospital for anything?!
My grandmother was a herbalist and I am researching some of her old treatments. Well you never know when they might be life saving in the face of the ghastly mess the NHS is in.

03-07-2007, 08:23 AM	#11
CzinZumerzet .....short for Caz Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The West Coast of England Posts: 358	Imagine a capital letter L as the rough shape of a town which has developed in the past twenty or so years. The right angled joint of the upright/baseline is the centre of the original Victorian town where the old town hospital was. It is now redeveloped as luxury housing. The upright is the growth of the new part of town, currently the largest single housing conurbation in Western Europe. And still growing. And finally the horizontal flat line representing the gigantic retail devopment outside of town and at the tip of the line is the site of the new hospital built in the early 1990's. The 16 year old hospital is now much too small for the growing town but as it's built on a flood plain 1/4 mile from the beach....feel it coming...it can't be enlarged in any direction. And anyway the PCT is almost 11 million in the red, so now the children's ward is closed and maternity is going to follow, with potential users having to bus or drive to Bristol, 21 miles away. Think of that in a seaside resort town of young families, kids and pregnant mums. The colossal waste of resources over previous years couple with addled thinking and planning just reduces us to a state of despair but there is some small consolation. With MRSA and C.Dificile now featuring on 38% of death certificates who in their right mind wants to go into hospital for anything?! My grandmother was a herbalist and I am researching some of her old treatments. Well you never know when they might be life saving in the face of the ghastly mess the NHS is in. __________________ ..down by the zea zippin' zider