MP's fears for A&E
MP Nigel Waterson is worried the A&E department at Eastbourne DGH could be the next casualty of NHS cuts, following a Government report advocating centralising A&E departments.
Mr Waterson was commenting on Lord Darzi's 60th anniversary report on the National Health Service's future when he said, "We are already fighting a desperate battle to hang on to local consultant-led maternity services. Now Darzi tells us he supports the 'centralisation' of accident and emergency centres. What does this mean for our local A&E?
"Of course, I support the need for specialist centres, but why does this have to come at the expense of accident and emergency services at local district general hospitals?"
Mr Waterson said he was concerned, following a revelation that the A259 between Eastbourne and Hastings was the fifth most dangerous in Britain, that Lord Darzi meant for patients to travel on the road to the Conquest in Hastings for emergency care too.
A spokesman for East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust said it had no plans to change A&E services.
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21 July 2008 5:31 PM
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