http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline CHANT Online Google Group CHANT - community hospitals acting nationally together. This forum is for open discussion of matters relating to community hospitals and the campaigns to keep them open. -0-0T::Z Google Groups ericawatsonuk@hotmail.com ericawatso...@hotmail.com 2006-03-09T15:16:26Z http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline/browse_frm/thread/8515442391dbe4c5 Westbury Community Hospital Sadly and very traumatically for patients and staff the in-patients <br> beds of Westbury Hospital were closed on Sunday morning. Staff and <br> patients were given only 5 days notice and it would be difficult for <br> the community to envisage how the PCT could have managed the transfer <br> of patients in a more damaging way. One terminally ill patient was at rfinch@cmpinformation.com rfi...@cmpinformation.com 2006-02-08T12:55:59Z http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline/browse_frm/thread/3758140a091c3dfe Press coverage of community hospital problems Over the past year I have covered several potential community hospital <br> closures for Pulse, the GPs' newspaper, and I am looking to continue my <br> coverage in 2006. If anyone has any particular issues that come up this <br> year, please get in touch. <br> See: tinyurl.com/b89c3 and <a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://tinyurl.com/8hhch">[link]</a> or <br> tinyurl.com/8r3an for recent examples. ericawatsonuk@hotmail.com ericawatso...@hotmail.com 2006-02-02T11:30:02Z http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline/browse_frm/thread/6b90be95c9e6b5e6 Westbury Community Hospital The Chief Executive for West Wiltshire PCT has responded to the White <br> Paper by announcing that the planned closure of community hospitals in <br> West Wiltshire will continue - her interpretation of the paper is that <br> Patricia Hewitt agrees with WW closure programme and that her vision to <br> close Westbury Hospital will be implemented without the public Ruth Penycate ruth.penyc...@bbc.co.uk 2006-01-25T15:26:13Z http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline/browse_frm/thread/51ff50194cb4a2de Action Network article Hello <br> I'm planning a feature about community/ cottage hospital closures for <br> the BBC Action Network site. I'd like to speak to someone who has been <br> involved in organising the protests against closures in Cumbria. Can <br> anyone point me in the right direction? <br> Kind regards <br> Ruth Penycate <br> <a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/actionnetwork">[link]</a> Karen ka...@randolph-watson.co.uk 2006-01-25T15:16:30Z http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline/browse_frm/thread/b9068a043ffd57bc Libby Purves's article in the Times Jan 24 Just to draw everybody's attention to an excellent article by Libby P <br> in yesterday's Times, publicising the lack of response from their PCT <br> to the local community's solution to keep the beds at Aldeburgh Cottage <br> Hospital open. Our problem is similar, if a few years down the line, <br> to theirs: we also have received no support from our PCT to a local Ruth ruth.penyc...@bbc.co.uk 2006-01-12T15:20:15Z http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline/browse_frm/thread/3e01677617c74720 BBC Action Network Hello there <br> Action Network is a BBC website for people who are taking action on <br> issues that concern them. I'm getting in touch because I think it could <br> be useful to people campaigning about hospital closures. We've got a <br> page dedicated to issues around hospitals <br> (<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/C55153">[link]</a>) and a group called NHS ericawatsonuk@hotmail.com ericawatso...@hotmail.com 2005-12-15T10:00:07Z http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline/browse_frm/thread/502e448aacc62c35 Westbury Community Hospital Wiltshire You can learn more about the history of our hospital at Wiki. <br> The hospital which also houses all the Community services is now under <br> even more threat as the announced closure on Aug 31st (with NO <br> consultation) has prompted many staff to look for jobs elswhere and <br> many of our experienced clinical and ancilliary staff have been chant_admin chantonl...@googlemail.com 2005-11-12T17:51:51Z http://groups.google.co.uk/group/chantonline/browse_frm/thread/fc3aaeb12448d91c Welcome Welcome to the CHANT online group, for discussion and general <br> chat/information. <br> We hope that you find it of use. <br> Chant Admin.