A week not long enough to consider hospital case

“I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our natural planet. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space” Peter Fawcett from Cleckheaton says Leeds has these great flower planters which he thinks would revive the drab landscape of New Street in Huddersfield to bring it back to life if Kirklees Council did the same. THE full business case for all emergency services in the Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust Hospitals to move to Halifax, should have been sent to the Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Friday, June 30.

However, it will probably not be ready until July 14. This will give the councillors only one week instead of the three they are entitled to, to read it.

I respectfully suggest that the councillors postpone their meeting to review it until they have had the full three weeks to elicit if, in fact, the document does take into account the 19 or so recommendations they made.

I also ask the public to write to the Scrutinising Officer, richard. dunne@kirklees.gov.uk to suggest the same.

It would be ironic at a time when Andrea Leadsom MP, so fulsomely praised the democratic system in Britain in the House of Commons on June 29, if it was not allowed to function properly in Kirklees and Calderdale.

Dewsbury Hospital has already ceased to be an emergency centre. There is no guarantee if Huddersfield Royal Infirmary is closed that another Urgent Care Centre for Kirklees would be built.

Talk to the people of Hartlepool about their promise of a new hospital, never honoured.

Please ask councillors to delay their meeting and scrutinise the FBC properly.

The absence of emergency centre facilities in Huddersfield together with planned reduction of services in Barnsley Hospital will greatly affect Dewsbury Hospital’s capacity to cope.

Councillors need to evaluate whether to send the full business case to Jeremy Hunt as unsatisfactory for the people of Kirklees. At the York Festival of Ideas, NHS England CEO Simon Stevens said the buck stops with Jeremy Hunt. I SUGGESTED years ago that instead of applying for a court order to remove travellers each time they are in Kirklees why not put a total ban on them for council and private land.

How much does it cost the ratepayers from each applying to court and the police time to remove them. It seems the council is going round in circles. The law of the land should apply to everybody so why do travellers break locks to get onto private property and never get prosecuted?

Does the council and the police turn a blind eye to what is a criminal offence?

They chose their way of life but the country’s law must be seen to be the same for every-