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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to SAVE BRIDLINGTON HOSPITAL & other hospitals named. More details
Submitted by Mick Pilling of Save Bridlington Hospital Campaign Action Group – Deadline to sign up by: 03 April 2008 – Signatures: 428
The East & North Yorkshire Hospitals are taking a battering regarding Hospital Services; it could be there demise; the removal of Jobs both Nurses & Doctors, also Beds,the closure of Wards; cut back of Minor Injuries Units with no over-night cover patients having to travel 20/40 miles to nearest A&E hospital; travelling on bad country rural roads; the closure of Maternity Units at 3 hospitals then having to travel 20/40 miles to the nearest; 4 babies born in backs of Ambulances in 2 weeks; trying to close Cardiac Monitoring Unit of 6 beds & Surgical Wards with some 60 beds lost; closure of 2 Mental Health wards loss of 35 jobs and 24 beds. Primary Healthcare Trusts & Hospital Trusts with massive debts North Yorks PCT £45m alone We can no longer sustain such cuts in this rural area; lives could be lost. We need your support please sign our petition; lets all show solidarity Hospitals affected are: Withernsea, Hornsea, Driffield, Beverley, Bridlington, Malton, Whitby, York & Scarborough all Hospitals with cuts, closures, staff loses. We need Central Government £ Injection We beg the NHS; Prime Minister to re-think the new reforms before lives are lost or put at risk.
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