The NHS costs each voter £50 a week on average. That's £2,600 a year. We aren't getting our fair share locally. The Government has run down Buckland Hospital and now they intend to sell it off. Charlie Elphicke and the Conservatives have put forward a plan for a new hospital. Labour offer a polyclinic - it's an insult to us all.
So what's happening locally? Sadly, Labour's mismanagement has made local healthcare into a mess:
- Dover Buckland ruined - Dover will now get a polyclinic, assuming Labour's Environment Agency doesn't kill it off altogether, leaving us with nothing at all
- Deal Victoria's beds reduced - Health chiefs talked about applying the "Dover model" without any beds, but backed off quickly when Charlie made sure everyone knew what they were planning. For now
- Dentistry deprivation - with only two Local dentists accepting NHS patients
- Hundreds of serious infections - in local acute hospitals, as well as problems with maggots, flies and insects
- Britain has the worst cancer survival rates in Europe
Charlie Elphicke and the Conservatives have a plan to fix local healthcare for the long term:
- A proper hospital for Dover with beds and doctor led emergency services
- Save Deal hospital Keep a proper hospital - no "Dover model" polyclinic. Now or ever
- No polyclinic nonsense so you will keep your local GP surgery
- Action not words The Shadow Health minister has visited and pledged to support a proper hospital for Dover
The choice of Government at the next General Election is going to be a healthcare choice too. Conservative for a proper hospital. Labour for a polyclinic. Charlie Elphicke is passionate for us to get our fair share of healthcare.
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i have thought for some time that gp surgeries should operate as "polyclincics". the nhs is badly out of date, simple sprains, minor breaks, bad cuts etc could all be dealt with at the first port of call, saves a lot of messing around for patients and staff. all that is needed is a quack to diagnose and nurses to carry out the treatment.. even medication(the most popular ones) could be doled out at the surgery.
- howard mcsweeney
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- Kay
Early this year my girlfriend nearly lost her life to an AVM which in easier terms is a complicated brain heamorrage this only effecting a handful of people a year in the whole country, after collapsing in the street and convulsing in my arms for nearly 15 minutes she was rushed (i say rushed we were held up in lots of traffic around westwood cross area despite lights and sirens) to MARGATE hospital were we waited at least 10-15 minutes for a bed a 40 minute wait for diagnosis until she was rushed to kings college hospital. In what all Dr's that examined her say is a miracle my partner survived and a miracle might not come to the next person but if Buckland hospital was still fully operational my partner would not of had to lay in agony on a bed for over an hour or driven on a terrible bumpy road and would have been diagnosed earlier an treated earlier so close buckland hospital is lunacy. People must not let this happen no hospital should close at all ever increases medical problems are rising every year as well as people living longer than ever what are you as my local mp doing about this?
- Ian law