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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.
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Westbury Community Hospital
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Sadly and very traumatically for patients and staff the in-patients beds of Westbury Hospital were closed on Sunday morning. Staff and patients were given only 5 days notice and it would be difficult for the community to envisage how the PCT could have managed the transfer of patients in a more damaging way. One terminally ill patient was at... more »
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Press coverage of community hospital problems
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Over the past year I have covered several potential community hospital closures for Pulse, the GPs' newspaper, and I am looking to continue my coverage in 2006. If anyone has any particular issues that come up this year, please get in touch. See: tinyurl.com/b89c3 and [link] or tinyurl.com/8r3an for recent examples.... more »
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Westbury Community Hospital
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The Chief Executive for West Wiltshire PCT has responded to the White Paper by announcing that the planned closure of community hospitals in West Wiltshire will continue - her interpretation of the paper is that Patricia Hewitt agrees with WW closure programme and that her vision to close Westbury Hospital will be implemented without the public... more »
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Action Network article
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Hello I'm planning a feature about community/ cottage hospital closures for the BBC Action Network site. I'd like to speak to someone who has been involved in organising the protests against closures in Cumbria. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Kind regards Ruth Penycate [link]... more »
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Libby Purves's article in the Times Jan 24
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Just to draw everybody's attention to an excellent article by Libby P in yesterday's Times, publicising the lack of response from their PCT to the local community's solution to keep the beds at Aldeburgh Cottage Hospital open. Our problem is similar, if a few years down the line, to theirs: we also have received no support from our PCT to a local... more »
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BBC Action Network
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Hello there Action Network is a BBC website for people who are taking action on issues that concern them. I'm getting in touch because I think it could be useful to people campaigning about hospital closures. We've got a page dedicated to issues around hospitals ([link]) and a group called NHS... more »
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Westbury Community Hospital Wiltshire
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You can learn more about the history of our hospital at Wiki. The hospital which also houses all the Community services is now under even more threat as the announced closure on Aug 31st (with NO consultation) has prompted many staff to look for jobs elswhere and many of our experienced clinical and ancilliary staff have been... more »
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Welcome
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Welcome to the CHANT online group, for discussion and general chat/information. We hope that you find it of use. Chant Admin.
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