Regarding the articles about the bed blocking and delays at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.

There was a meeting not long ago about the future of the last remaining block of Southlands Hospital (there have been other meetings), which has stood empty for quite a while.

How short sighted of the powers that be not to have foreseen the population growth plus the ageing element and maybe the part that Southlands, which was very much loved by the local community, could possibly help with bed blocking.

So it would therefore help Brighton and Worthing hospitals with the delays in freeing beds.

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