A PETITION to reopen the Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) at Melksham Hospital has been taken to the heart of Government.
Health campaigners Mary Jarvis and Gill Butler presented their 12,429-signature petition to west Wiltshire MPs Michael Ancram and Dr Andrew Murrison at the Houses of Parliament last week.
Eight people, including Cllr Mark Griffiths from Melksham Town Council and Cllr Mike Mills from Melksham Without Parish Council, travelled up to London thanks to funding from the League of Friends of Melksham Community Hospital.
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Mrs Jarvis said: "We felt that both MPs were very supportive of the petition and the need for Melksham to have its own MIU.
"They took the petition and are now going to present it to the Health Minister Alan Johnson, to ask for a response."
She said it was important to keep the pressure on Wiltshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) and urged people to write to her with their experiences of using the MIU in Trowbridge and the impact the loss of Melksham's MIU has had.
She will be attending Wiltshire PCT's board meeting on May 20 when they will be discussing the closure of the unit and said she would present any stories she had received then.
Details can be left at Melksham Town Hall or Melksham Without Parish Council at Crown Chambers, 7 Market Place, Melksham, addressed to Mary Jarvis.
Posted by: GSXRRRSP, WESTBURY on 10:46pm Thu 8 May 08
THEY ARE A DRAIN ON RESOURCES AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE CLOSED DOWN WARMINSTER,TROWBRIDG
E THE LOT AND THEN BUILD A DECENT HOSPITAL TO REPLACE THE LOT SO WE DONT HAVE TO RELY ON DIRTY BATH.
THEY ARE A DRAIN ON RESOURCES AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE CLOSED DOWN WARMINSTER,TROWBRIDG
E THE LOT AND THEN BUILD A DECENT HOSPITAL TO REPLACE THE LOT SO WE DONT HAVE TO RELY ON DIRTY BATH.
Posted by: Necker, Trowbridge on 11:19pm Thu 8 May 08
Re-open them all and fund them all.
When you fall off your motorbike the wrong side of Bath, you'll understand.
When you can get a piza faster than an ambulance will you want olives on yours while you bleed on the road?
Good Luck to these people, they will be ignored as usual by the powers that be, the powers that seem to want to have one REAL hospital a county by saving pennies on the community hospitals so vital to the communities.
Sometimes it's not about the £'s
Sometimes it's more than city superhospitals. Sometimes it's a life.
Re-open them all and fund them all.
When you fall off your motorbike the wrong side of Bath, you'll understand.
When you can get a piza faster than an ambulance will you want olives on yours while you bleed on the road?
Good Luck to these people, they will be ignored as usual by the powers that be, the powers that seem to want to have one REAL hospital a county by saving pennies on the community hospitals so vital to the communities.
Sometimes it's not about the £'s
Sometimes it's more than city superhospitals. Sometimes it's a life.
The NHS needs radical changes. Management, medical and non-medical staff all need to change their work ethics. As dedicated as the medical staff are, they get huge amounts of 'paid' leave compared to the private sector. Managers and senior medical staff need to work close and as a team as opposed to the 'us' and 'them' mindset. Consultants need to show less arrogance and get rid of the 'I am a God' status. Non-medical staffing levels are a joke....assistants to the assistant ward managers....admin assistant to the senior admin assistant BLAH BLAH BLAH.....most of whom spend most of the working day wandering around the hospital corridors with their fingers up their bums trying to look important and patronising anyone who dares to speak to them. CHANGE IS THE WAY FORWARD.....WITHOUT MERCY!
The NHS needs radical changes. Management, medical and non-medical staff all need to change their work ethics. As dedicated as the medical staff are, they get huge amounts of 'paid' leave compared to the private sector. Managers and senior medical staff need to work close and as a team as opposed to the 'us' and 'them' mindset. Consultants need to show less arrogance and get rid of the 'I am a God' status. Non-medical staffing levels are a joke....assistants to the assistant ward managers....admin assistant to the senior admin assistant BLAH BLAH BLAH.....most of whom spend most of the working day wandering around the hospital corridors with their fingers up their bums trying to look important and patronising anyone who dares to speak to them. CHANGE IS THE WAY FORWARD.....WITHOUT MERCY!
Posted by: Alex Zivojinovich, Wiltshire on 4:40pm Sat 10 May 08
If you have some small surgery or other now you have to go and buy your own bandages to take along so that the nurse will dress the wound. Yes really that is where we are at. Soon they'll be dishing out scalpels and cardboard kidney trays with diagrams of how to do stuff yourself!
If you have some small surgery or other now you have to go and buy your own bandages to take along so that the nurse will dress the wound. Yes really that is where we are at. Soon they'll be dishing out scalpels and cardboard kidney trays with diagrams of how to do stuff yourself!
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