I will be critical of BHRUT in a speech at Redbridge Council tomorrow. In the interests of fairness I go to the BHRUT board meeting today to ask them to to comment on three deceptions made by BHRUT I list at http://savekinggeorgehospital.blogspot.com/2019/05/time-to-stop-deception-about-kgh-come.html,
A draft of speech follows tomorrow and I will invite the Chair to comment.
BHRUT
has treated this Council, Havering Council and the Department of
Health with contempt.
Back
in 2015, Ben Gummer then a parliamentary under secretary of
state,wrote to this council to say
“Changes
to the A&E service at King George Hospital will not be made until
they are further improvements in the quality of emergency care and
when more work has taken place to reduce the need for hospital
attendance and to provide care closer to home”
So
giving an instruction to BHRUT not to close King George A&E if
attendances were rising and care standards improved.
However
in 2016 (1) BHRUT agreed a new secret plan to close King George
A&E, and breaches Mr Gummer's instructions by ignoring his
benchmarks regarding care and attendance.
BHRUT
and others claim £49M plan which came to light in April of this year
is not a plan to close King George A&E. I have sent this plan to all Cllrs, at
page 4 it states “re-route ambulance-borne emergency patients to
Queens” and “Repurpose KGH A&E as an Ortho-Geriatric
Receiving Unit” Page 17 talks of “consolidating..emergency care
at QH” In BHRUT speak means closure, Cedar ward which was closed at KGH, was also
consolidated in BHRUT speak, rather than closed.
Page (7) of the closure plan in the 5th paragraph shows the new closure plan was agreed in 2016.
Page 10 (first paragraph: "Preliminary work") & page 13 (process of transformation has already partially commenced) shows work on the closure plan already taking place.
It is clear that BHRUT have treated the Cllrs who sat on Wes Streeting's report into the future of King George with contempt. At no time did the BHRUT maners who gave evidence to the working disclose they were taking steps to close KGH A&E a disgrace.
BHRUT treated Havering Cllrs with contempt by not disclosing to them them that the application they put in 2018 to extend Queens was part of a plan a close it.
BHRUT treated the Department of Health with contempt by not disclosing to them that A&E attendances were going through the roof at time of the £49M bid and continue to do so now.
BHRUT also gave the impression that Havering and Redbridge Council were in favour of the closure plan by implying their planners were on board and so supportive of ther £49M bid to close KGH A&E
Page 10 (first paragraph: "Preliminary work") & page 13 (process of transformation has already partially commenced) shows work on the closure plan already taking place.
It is clear that BHRUT have treated the Cllrs who sat on Wes Streeting's report into the future of King George with contempt. At no time did the BHRUT maners who gave evidence to the working disclose they were taking steps to close KGH A&E a disgrace.
BHRUT treated Havering Cllrs with contempt by not disclosing to them them that the application they put in 2018 to extend Queens was part of a plan a close it.
BHRUT treated the Department of Health with contempt by not disclosing to them that A&E attendances were going through the roof at time of the £49M bid and continue to do so now.
BHRUT also gave the impression that Havering and Redbridge Council were in favour of the closure plan by implying their planners were on board and so supportive of ther £49M bid to close KGH A&E
The
January A&E attendance patient attendance for the last four years
for King George & Queens is
2016:
23,696 patient attendances
2017:
24,289 patient attendances
2019:
27,641 patient attendances
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