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Current mood:  angry Category: News and Politics
The result of the consultation has been released by the Hospital Trust and it's not good news. 1) They want to move our Hospital 2) We've been lied to more than anyone could have expected.
We have learned the outcome of the West Herts Hospital Trusts 'Consultation'. The consultation, which was supposed to survey the views of local people on 3 suggested options about how we feel hospital services should be, has been reviewed and option 1 has been officially taken up. This is despite only 4% of people that filled in the consultation questionaire voted for option 1. Option 1 is to move pretty much everything to Watford.
Therefore the Consultation is obviously un-democratic, the decision was to ignore the people's vote and we may now see an end to Hemel Hempstead Hospital. This does not however mean that the Save Hemel Hempstead Hospital Campaign is stopping, we're just starting.
This site was intended to fill the gap that exists because officials who are guilty, feel too guilty to tell us the shame they feel from what they are doing.
The consultation was also very limited due to the lack of publicity given to it by officials, in fact the majority of those that filled it in, only did so due to the hard work of Save Hemel Hempstead Hospital volunteers who managed to find one of a very few number of them at Watford Hospital. It was photocopied and the intention was to give people their democratic right to have their say. Of the 4200 people surveyed the vast majority chose Option 2, which in itself was not great, but we have now learned that the whole process was a lie.
All that will remain, if they get their way, is a small centre for minor illnesses and injuries. Great if you have a grazed knee, dangerous if you are threatened with death.
The public were 'surveyed' in Hemel Hempstead, but even after this, the 4% that voted for option 1 are the only ones that were listened to. It would not suprise us if it turned out that the 4% was made up of votes from a certain 'Mr David Law', the Chief Executive of the Trust!
We will be planning more protests, which, should it lead to it, will also include baracading the hospital from those that wish to tear it down. Start filling sandbags.
Full Article Regarding the West Herts Hospital Trust's Decision:
Critical loss after hospital decision
By Emily Hassall
Comment
PATIENTS from St Albans who require critical medical care will be sent to Watford General as part of new cost-saving measures.
West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust's board today approved the centralisation of acute services such as A&E, intensive care, complex surgery and women's and children's services at Watford.
The board also voted, as part of its decision to back Option 1 of its consultation document, to make St Albans City Hospital the focus of day case surgeries.
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This means most planned surgeries, such as hip replacements, will be carried out there.
An "urgent care centre" to treat minor illnesses and injuries will be built at Hemel Hempstead.
The board's decision to back Option 1 went against the results of its own consultation.
More than 4,200 people responded to the trust's consultation, with four per cent backing Option 1.
Eighty-two per cent supported Option 2, which would have seen day surgeries dealt with at Hemel Hempstead instead of St Albans.
Fourteen per cent voted for other options, or stated they were unsure.
The changes could deliver savings of up to £11.2million of savings per year, but will cost up to £33.2million to implement.
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