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- Health
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Crewkerne Community hospital's beds must not be cut, protesters say
Plans to cut all 20 beds at a community hospital and turn it into a neighbourhood health centre "must not happen", staff NHS Foundation Trust is considering changes at Crewkerne Community Hospital to increase its range of outpatient services, such as chemotherapy, cardiology and blood of people attended a protest outside the hospital on Thursday evening, with one member of staff saying the beds were vital to take the pressure off acute trust said no final decision has been made on closing beds, but said an expanded range of services would mean fewer people having to travel further to larger hospitals for treatment. Staff at Crewkerne have said they have already been told about redeployment options and offered shifts shadowing roles at other Purchase, who has worked at the hospital for 16 years, said: "We can't close these beds, we can't lose them."The patients need these beds and so do the acute hospitals to offload into these community beds. This must not happen."Sandy, who has been an inpatient at Crewkerne for four weeks, said she had received "wonderful care" relatively close to home. She described those caring for her as "angels in nurses uniforms".Elsewhere, the trust is also in the early stages of a consultation on reducing beds at the community hospitals in Frome and Bridgwater, and at West Mendip Hospital in Glastonbury. Sarah Dyke, MP for Glastonbury and Somerton, has raised concerns the cuts could put pressure on acute hospitals and mean people receiving inpatient care far from is also seeking assurances that staff at the three hospitals "have jobs to go to", adding: "It doesn't feel like they are being consulted and looked after and we've got to ensure their wellbeing".Andy Heron, the trust's chief operating officer, said that no final decision has been he said any changes could help shift services from an acute hospital setting into a community setting, which is central top the government's recently published 10-year health plan. Mr Heron said: "We think there is now an exciting opportunity to make greater use of Crewkerne Community Hospital, which is in the heart of the community, with an expanded range of diagnostic services and treatments which could benefit many more local people, meaning that fewer local residents will need to travel to one of our acute hospitals."
BBC News
17-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Plans for replacement health centre in Weybridge approved
Plans to create a new health centre to replace a community hospital that was destroyed in a fire have been Weybridge Community Hospital burned down in new building will be home to the Phoenix GP practice, which has been formed by the merger of the Rowan Tree and Church Street practices in May Borough Council's planning committee backed the scheme unanimously at a meeting on Tuesday. Since the blaze, care services have been provided in temporary buildings on the new facility will also have an urgent treatment centre, community health services, a diagnostics unit and room for a mobile unit to be parked when needed.
BBC News
28-06-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Tests 'closer to home' as new diagnostic centre opens in Hinckley
A £24.6 million community diagnostic centre has opened in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) says the centre is the first of it's kind in the facility aims to offer patients a wide range of diagnostic tests closer to home, it says, to ease pressure on busy hospitals. Located next to the site of the former Hinckley and District Community Hospital in Mount Road, it will provide tests such as CT and MRI scans, X-rays and ultrasounds, phlebotomy, dermatology, audiology assessments and endoscopy. The centre is expected to undertake 70,000 tests this year, increasing to more than 80,000 next year, the LLR ICB Chadwin, 52, from Burbage in Leicestershire, said she was able to have an X-ray in her lunch break after the centre opened on Friday."I was able to nip out and have it done, and nip added: "I've even got time to take the dog for a walk!" Judith Spiers, head of nursing for community hospitals in Leicester, said: "The patients won't need to travel to the main hospitals, which takes pressure off the roads and the parking, but also it takes pressure off those sites so we can do the acute care there and the diagnostics can be done in centres like this." Helen Hendley, director of planned care for LLR ICB, said: "It's going to make such a difference to the local area.""We have made such inroads with our long waits for patients across the patch, but we know if we can get our diagnostics tests in quicker, we can then get to a treatment plan faster too." Officially opening the centre was Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth, Dr Luke Evans. He said: "The next step is the £10 million day case unit over the road that we are working on, so that people can have their operations done here as well."The two centres would compliment each other perfectly."
BBC News
20-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Former Dartmouth hospital site sold after three attempts
The site of a former hospital in south Devon has been sold after a number of previous attempts fell Dartmouth and Kingswear Community Hospital building was put up for auction in September 2024, the third attempt to dispose of the and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust confirmed it had been sold "on the open market" by auctioneers on 9 May, without disclosing the sale proceeds would be used to fund the £5.4m Dartmouth Health and Wellbeing Centre, which opened in May 2023, it said. The building, on the embankment overlooking the River Dart, was nearly sold in January 2024, but the preferred bidder fell reported guide price at a July auction was about £1.5m before it was put up for auction in chief executive Joe Teape said the organisation was "pleased to confirm the sale"."We are respecting the buyer's request to not be named," he said."We would like to thank Dartmouth Town Council and Charles Darrow property agents for their support during the sale process."The building was one of a number of community hospitals closed in 2017. The trust has been contacted about the sale price.
