10 May 2006
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, today reacted angrily to the further savage cuts to health services in the Cotswolds.
The Cotswold & Vale Primary Care Trusts today announced that:
- Moreton-in-Marsh Hospital will have its beds reduced from 30 – 24 in a “redevelopment” exercise
-Bourton-on-the-Water will have bed closures
-Stroud Maternity Hospital will close
-They will contract out the out-patient management of Fairford Hospital…to Swindon NHS Trust
Mr Clifton-Brown said “People in the Cotswolds and the elderly in particular, will undoubtedly be the first to suffer as a result of the incompetence of the Department of Health, and the financial mismanagement of our National Health Service. The government appear to have forgotten that the Cotswolds has one of the highest proportions of elderly people in the United Kingdom. It is crucial that these services stay local, how many more cuts are we still to face?”
Mr Clifton-Brown added: “Whilst the cuts in the Cotswolds may not seem quite so severe as elsewhere in the county, or indeed nationally; this is because we have already had ruthless cuts in beds at Tetbury and Fairford, and government attacks on our services.”
The Cotswold & Vale Primary Care Trusts today announced that:
- Moreton-in-Marsh Hospital will have its beds reduced from 30 – 24 in a “redevelopment” exercise
-Bourton-on-the-Water will have bed closures
-Stroud Maternity Hospital will close
-They will contract out the out-patient management of Fairford Hospital…to Swindon NHS Trust
Mr Clifton-Brown said “People in the Cotswolds and the elderly in particular, will undoubtedly be the first to suffer as a result of the incompetence of the Department of Health, and the financial mismanagement of our National Health Service. The government appear to have forgotten that the Cotswolds has one of the highest proportions of elderly people in the United Kingdom. It is crucial that these services stay local, how many more cuts are we still to face?”
Mr Clifton-Brown added: “Whilst the cuts in the Cotswolds may not seem quite so severe as elsewhere in the county, or indeed nationally; this is because we have already had ruthless cuts in beds at Tetbury and Fairford, and government attacks on our services.”
