‘CCG officer’s words are too ambiguous’

SO, WE’RE all scaremongering are we? So the hospital beds that have been ‘temporarily’ closed for 12 months are being reopened are they?

So next time my friend’s husband needs an ENT appointment it will be at The Moorlands Hospital will it? So there’s no need for people to go to Cobridge for blood tests is there?

So people haven’t been looked after at NHS expense in a nursing home that was declared among other things as unsafe, and another facility that had to be shut down because of the presence of Legionella?

How dare the accountability officer for the North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group call us ‘scaremongering’?

We still live in a democratic country and are entitled to respond to and fight against proposals that we believe could be detrimental to our community.

I have, at the request of the CCG, attended many of their so-called stakeholder meetings and entered into their sessions where we were asked about our vision for the future of healthcare in the Moorlands.

At every meeting I insisted that we need the Moorlands Hospital to remain as it was a couple of years ago before the CCG started its slow dumbing down of the services we have all benefited from for many years.

When he talks in last week’s paper about the CCG having no plans to withdraw health services from the Leek area we suspect that this might not be entirely the case.

His words are so ambiguous that they could mean anything – What for example will happen to Leek Moorlands Hospital beds?

Mr Warnes talks of being disappointed in his letter to the Post & Times last week! Well let me tell Mr Warnes that I am also disappointed! Disappointed at the lack of transparency shown by the CCG.

Disappointed that this process has taken so long. Disappointed that patients have been put at risk through the actions of the CCG. Disappointed at the money wasted by the CCG in allowing millions to be spent on building a new sixty four bedded modular unit at the Royal Stoke University Hospital when the beds are already available in the Community Hospitals

I am also by the way disappointed that someone in Mr Warnes position should be so condescending in his attitude to local people who are trying to stop the dismantling of our health services.

Pam Wood Leek