Is It Goodbye To Trafford General Hospital?
Trafford General Hospital is going to be downgraded in phases according to this report. Here’s the first three paragraphs.
Campaigners fighting to save a hospital A&E department where the first NHS patient was treated say they will challenge the decision in court.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that Trafford General Hospital was to be downgraded in phases.
He said the decision had been taken because there were too few patients using the department.
My son was in that hospital several times, a few months before he died and they had no idea he had pancreatic cancer.
I certainly won’t miss its passing and I suspect as it seems to be suffering from Stafford Syndrome, with a lack of patients, neither will any of the people who live near the hospital.
But then as long as I can remember, NHS patients have always chosen to go to a better hospital a few miles away. When I lived in Suffolk, my local hospital was at Bury St. Edmunds, but I always drove to Addenbrooke’s at Cambridge. I suspect the good people of Trafford, go to somewhere in Central Manchester.
But then the first sentence in the BBC report says it all. It treated the first NHS patient. But we don’t want to keep hospitals as museums!
The Anonymous Widower 
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Comment by medisolutionindia | July 13, 2013 |
I dont like Trafford General, lots of reasons really, but especially dont like the GI dept because of lots of things I have heard. Generally people seem to choose Wythenshawe which is very good – most of the consultants I have seen over accident and gynae health problems are from there, rest are from Hope in Salford. I think most emergencies would go to Wythenshawe if A&E closes, possibly to MRI, about which I know very little. We have another one in the area I wouldnt go near, Tameside, which has lots of problems too
Comment by Liz P | July 13, 2013 |
Satellite London hospitals have problems too. I’d only go to my two nearest, the Royal London or UCLH. But the alternative at Homerton in Hackney seems fine.
We have too many bad hospitals, that should be closed and the good staff should be used to expand the good hospitals. The trouble is the politicians feel that everybody wants a local hospital. Sadly, it gets them votes!
Comment by AnonW | July 13, 2013 |