Having promised community rehabilitation beds at both Frenchay and Thornbury hospital sites in 2015, last year local NHS chiefs abandoned those plans and went back to the drawing board.
Your Focus Team's concerns deepened in January when we learnt that North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) had given the nod to developer Redrow to put in a planning application on land previously set aside for new health facilities at the former Frenchay Hospital site.
Now new plans have been announced that would see only 40-50 “rehabilitation” beds provided, fewer than previously suggested and all at Frenchay. Thornbury would have just 6-10 NHS-funded beds, not for rehabilitation, within a new privately run Nursing Care home.
We welcome efforts to treat more people at home but with a fast growing population are they providing enough beds for those for whom that is not appropriate? We also think that allowing homes to be built on the land at Frenchay previously set aside for health facilities would make the latest proposals for the old hospital site hard to deliver.
They've also made another promise of a new health centre at Thornbury - we’ll believe it when we see it!
Your Focus Team will keep fighting for the health services we need.
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Friday, 30 March 2018
Monday, 29 February 2016
Have your say on One Stop Shops and customer contact centre
In another of the consultations on cuts, the council is asking for your views on how to save money on the One Stop Shops and customer services it provides.
The ruling Conservatives' preference is to close the Thornbury One Stop Shop and replace it with a "digital by default" option. This despite past assertions that the council was committed to retaining a presence in the town. The alternatives suggested are keeping Thornbury open part-time and making either Yate or Patchway also part-time or cutting more staff from the customer service team. Anyone who has struggled to get through to the council on the phone recently will be concerned about the latter option.
You can find out more and have your say here.
The ruling Conservatives' preference is to close the Thornbury One Stop Shop and replace it with a "digital by default" option. This despite past assertions that the council was committed to retaining a presence in the town. The alternatives suggested are keeping Thornbury open part-time and making either Yate or Patchway also part-time or cutting more staff from the customer service team. Anyone who has struggled to get through to the council on the phone recently will be concerned about the latter option.
You can find out more and have your say here.
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