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NOVEMBER 2018 • ISSUE 63 • www.thescarboroughreview.com • Covering Filey and Hunmanby
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16 THE DAY SHE NEVER THOUGHT SHE’D SEE
Hospital clings on to A&E in face of growing public anger
A CENTURY 20 ON, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM The Scarborough Hospital picket line during the 48-hour strike (photo by John Margetts)
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SCARBOROUGH Hospital is clinging on to its A&E department in the face of mounting public fear over NHS cutbacks. A petition opposing cuts attracted about 25,000 signatures within a week. The NHS’s Humber Coast and Vale area, which includes York and Scarborough, has been told by government to find savings to plug a massive £420m funding gap by 2021. Anger greeted NHS representatives at two public meetings called at short notice by the health trust and attended by hundreds of people. After a period of uncertainty, the trust is now saying it will protect and enhance the A&E department, although it isn’t known if other services might be reduced or lost in exchange. Dr Becky Chandler, who lives in Scarborough and practises in Whitby, said: “The review [of acute services] is a significant public consultation on what we, as Scarborough residents, think about the future models that are proposed for the hospital.
“A private company has come to review just Scarborough Hospital”, Dr Chandler said. “They are not looking at York Hospital, despite them having merged. Yet senior York-based personnel are having a say on our future services and what should be reduced here and possibly expanded in York”. Dr Chandler said the dangers include: * Reducing or stopping emergency surgery and moving some routine elective surgery elsewhere, likely York, Hull or Middesbrough. This means, in an emergency, travelling far away from loved ones, even having the risk of travelling further to see a doctor, on roads that aren't even dual carriageways. Travelling for pre-op assessments, having surgery there and then post-op follow-ups. * Reducing obstetric cover to a midwifery-led unit. “Any complications would be shipped to either York or Hull. “Midwives can't control bleeding, do Caesarean sections, even offer alternative pain relief such as an epidural. Imagine travelling in an ambulance or being stuck on the A64 while in labour and scared”, Dr Chandler said. Continued on page 2.
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