Thousands sign petition against shake-up of hospital services in East Sussex (From The Argus)
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Thousands sign petition against shake-up of hospital services in East Sussex
10:20am Sunday 17th March 2013 in News
Thousands of people are being urged to sign a petition against plans to shake up hospital services in East Sussex.
The e-petition on the Government’s website was set up by Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd in response to plans by East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
The changes mean emergency general and orthopaedic surgery will no longer be carried out at Eastbourne District General Hospital.
Patients will have to travel to Conquest Hospital in St Leonards instead.
Stroke services will be based at Eastbourne. Both hospitals currently provide all three services.
Trust bosses say services must be based on one site to keep treatment sustainable and safe.
Campaigners believe lives will be put at risk because critically ill patients will face longer journeys.
The e-petition needs at least 100,000 signatures for it to be considered for debate in the House of Commons.
For more details, visit epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/42150.
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The last temptation of crisps says...
11:34am Sun 17 Mar 13
The orchestrated and sustained hatchet job on the NHS will continue. At least the right-wing oiks will share in the needless misery to come. Party HQs then need only circulate rumours it was all because of those illegal immigrants in order to retain the moron vote.
An essential component in all privatisations has been the persistent rubbishing of the national asset in the media. Why don't we see Jeremy Hunt visiting those doing amazing work up and down the country recently? It's so that a handful of cases can be referred back to when healthcare starts getting more medieval - perhaps just the way that Thatcher intended.
Meanwhile Cameron and Clegg continue gently cupping the balls of bankers whose hands remain stuck in the public purse. Labour scumbags are no better. The Greens are the kind of disaster that can happen when mainstream parties show themselves as grasping scoundrels.
This country is indeed broken. It seems no less corrupt than China. We're just better at having sham inquiries and distracting numpties with debates about gay marriage.