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FUTURE FIT - NOT FIT & NO FUTURE
A Statement by Shropshire and Montgomeryshire CLPs
The Constituency Labour Parties of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire are united in their rejection of the Future Fit proposals for the reshaping of our local NHS which neither offer a sustainable future for our health services nor meet the diverse needs of our communities.
At a time when our local NHS faces an annual shortfall of some £135 million as a direct result of year-on-year Government underfunding, we need a long-term vision for our local health and social care services and the investment to go with it.
Instead, Future Fit offers nothing more than a short-term cost-cutting exercise which will leave us with just one A&E department (or so-called emergency department) to serve the whole of Shropshire and Mid Wales while reducing other key services and making others harder for patients and their families to access. What is more, Future Fit will require a capital expenditure of £312 million which will be part funded through PFI-type deals and incur interest charges of at least £11m a year which will lead to still further cuts in our health services.
We very much regret that local Conservative MPs have welcomed a package which will result in expensive new buildings but around 40 fewer acute hospital beds, some 330 fewer nurses and none of the previously promised improvements to the community NHS services, public health programmes and social care provision we so urgently need.
In addition, a down-graded Princess Royal Hospital in Telford will lose its A&E department and its new £28 million Women and Children’s Centre, the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital will no longer undertake planned operations and rural areas will lose their Maternity Units. The ambulance service will be placed under still greater pressure and patients will have to travel further for routine treatment.
We are open to any set of proposals which will improve the level and quality of care for our communities. But we cannot support measures which will have the opposite effect and which place both patients and staff at risk.
Moreover, we deplore a consultation exercise which is designed to divide communities by forcing them to choose between two much needed hospitals.
We will stand up for our communities and campaign for the maintenance of A&E departments and other essential services at both hospitals and for fair funding for Shropshire’s NHS to provide the highest quality of care for all of us, when we need it and whatever our income or postcode.
Monday 4th June 2018
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For Pictures of Jeremy Corbyn's Rally in Telford Park, 20 July 2017 (courtesy of Penny Cartwright) see our Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/LabourNorthShropshire/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1911927512383072
Constituency Map, with Branch and Ward Boundaries
There are no proposals to change our boundaries in the present boundary review of constituencies. (September 2016) The Eastern Branch name was changed to North East Shropshire in October 2017 - the map now reflects this. (The correct name of the NW Ward is "Gobowen, Selattyn & Weston Rhyn" but we cannot edit the text in the Electoral Commission map!)
A Statement by Shropshire and Montgomeryshire CLPs
The Constituency Labour Parties of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire are united in their rejection of the Future Fit proposals for the reshaping of our local NHS which neither offer a sustainable future for our health services nor meet the diverse needs of our communities.
At a time when our local NHS faces an annual shortfall of some £135 million as a direct result of year-on-year Government underfunding, we need a long-term vision for our local health and social care services and the investment to go with it.
Instead, Future Fit offers nothing more than a short-term cost-cutting exercise which will leave us with just one A&E department (or so-called emergency department) to serve the whole of Shropshire and Mid Wales while reducing other key services and making others harder for patients and their families to access. What is more, Future Fit will require a capital expenditure of £312 million which will be part funded through PFI-type deals and incur interest charges of at least £11m a year which will lead to still further cuts in our health services.
We very much regret that local Conservative MPs have welcomed a package which will result in expensive new buildings but around 40 fewer acute hospital beds, some 330 fewer nurses and none of the previously promised improvements to the community NHS services, public health programmes and social care provision we so urgently need.
In addition, a down-graded Princess Royal Hospital in Telford will lose its A&E department and its new £28 million Women and Children’s Centre, the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital will no longer undertake planned operations and rural areas will lose their Maternity Units. The ambulance service will be placed under still greater pressure and patients will have to travel further for routine treatment.
We are open to any set of proposals which will improve the level and quality of care for our communities. But we cannot support measures which will have the opposite effect and which place both patients and staff at risk.
Moreover, we deplore a consultation exercise which is designed to divide communities by forcing them to choose between two much needed hospitals.
We will stand up for our communities and campaign for the maintenance of A&E departments and other essential services at both hospitals and for fair funding for Shropshire’s NHS to provide the highest quality of care for all of us, when we need it and whatever our income or postcode.
Monday 4th June 2018
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For Pictures of Jeremy Corbyn's Rally in Telford Park, 20 July 2017 (courtesy of Penny Cartwright) see our Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/LabourNorthShropshire/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1911927512383072
Constituency Map, with Branch and Ward Boundaries
There are no proposals to change our boundaries in the present boundary review of constituencies. (September 2016) The Eastern Branch name was changed to North East Shropshire in October 2017 - the map now reflects this. (The correct name of the NW Ward is "Gobowen, Selattyn & Weston Rhyn" but we cannot edit the text in the Electoral Commission map!)
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