In message <[log in to unmask]>, Andrew G Hobart
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>> 2. 90% of patients have access to a major A&E unit
>> within 30 minutes' normal road travel (i.e. not a blue-light ambulance);
>> every town of 50,000 or more has a major unit.
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>Number 2 would be a retrogressive step IMHO.
>All others I agree with in principle.
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>Andrew
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>Andrew Hobart FRCS FFAEM
>Birmingham
Andrew,
Would you care to expand on this? Are you saying that only large
population centres should have an A/E department?
Why on earth should someone with what they perceive as a nasty cut or or
bony injury face a long drive to a major town with a teaching hospital?
What sort of service will they get?
The centralisation of health care is a disaster for rural communities,
and from what I've seen in Newham, doesn't do the urban folk much good
either.
Are you trying to tell those of us in out of town DGH's that we provide
a poor service?
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Stephen Hughes SpR Harlow and Newham.
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