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22 January 2009
13:4713493Interserve PLC have been awarded a £20m contract to construct the new "Dover Hospital".
A press release has been issued.
Perhaps someone can chase up the PR. It gives all the services that will be provided.
Watty
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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22 January 2009
14:3313500And I will think fondly of the new clinic while on the train to Ashford to visit sick family members.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Terry Nunn
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22 January 2009
14:4213503"Interserve PLC"? Sounds like a pub chain.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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22 January 2009
14:5513504Interserve Wins £20m Dover Hospital Contract
21 Jan 2009
Interserve, the services, maintenance and building group, has been awarded a £20 million contract by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust to create a new community hospital in central Dover.
The project, procured through the NHS ProCure21 framework programme, will involve the construction of a variety of clinical facilities including:
Minor injuries unit
Outpatient department
Minor Procedures Suite
Satellite Renal dialysis
Birthing Unit
Child Health
Day Hospital
Therapy Services
Diagnostic services
The hospital will be located in the centre of the town at Maison Dieu Road, close to the Citizens' Advice Bureau and other social facilities. Construction is expected to begin this autumn, with the hospital being open for use in the summer of 2011.
David Paterson, Managing Director of Interserve Project Services, commented, "We recognise that this hospital will be an important facility for the people of Dover and the surrounding area of Kent and are proud to have been chosen to deliver it. With experience of more than 90 ProCure21 projects to date, we shall be working closely with the Trust to ensure that we create the modern hospital the community deserves."
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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22 January 2009
20:4013529does anyone know what "satellite renal dialysis" is?
Brian Dixon
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22 January 2009
20:4313531they send you to a satalite for a pee howard
22 January 2009
21:2613541It means a small, probably inadequate, place for dialysis. If a place is a satellite, it is in orbit of the real place and therefore of less value. As in Minor.
22 January 2009
21:5313547Its a 9-5 clinic with no parking. As Paul said in an earlier thread -"its not a Hospital as we know it"
Wait for the birthing unit to be cancelled for lack of beds.....
and by the way doesnt Planning permission come in there somewhere or is that already given????
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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22 January 2009
22:0413551i thought that the land was owned by either KCC or DDC, hence the early start.
this was one of the main reasons why this site was chosen.
getting back to the dialysis, does this mean that it can be administered at our new facility or not?
roger will take a keen interest in this.
Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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22 January 2009
22:0813552David H
I have not seen any plans come through DTC yet. I suppose it will be a done thing, someone is pulling the strings, they have fooled the public saying we are having a hospital, and yet all we are getting is a glorified clinic
Sheila
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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22 January 2009
22:1313554sheila
i think that you may have posted that whilst my one was just being uploaded.
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23 January 2009
11:0713581A hospital has wards with beds but I don't see any mention of this other than Day Hospital, so it is a clinic dressed up as a hospital, please correct me if I am wrong.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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23 January 2009
11:4513587Satellite Renal Dialysis is where people with kidney failure go, for Haemodialysis - where the blood is filtered and cleaned through a kidney machine.
People are on the Haemodialysis machines for about 4 - 5 hours at a time, 3 times a week, and you feel bloody awful afterwards for about a day, then you're back in for another session.
They have them at Buckland and it saves people travelling to Canterbury or QEQM or further afield.
Jean does CAPD - Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (she has done Haemodialysis).
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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23 January 2009
16:0413606so if myself or a member of my famly take serisly ill we will taken to an out of town hospital to recive treatment or a lenthy stay as an patent. not having my own transport i would or worse still my famly would have to use unreliable public transport which will prove expensive in the long term.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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23 January 2009
17:2713617So where is all the cash going to go with the buckland site which has already been sold off ,will it come to Dover,I do not think so, do you?
vic M
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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23 January 2009
18:5513639with major hospitals at margate, ashford and canterbury, there is no way that we will get a hospital on that scale.
it is all "pie in the sky" to pretend otherwise.
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23 January 2009
22:4913679That's very true Howard and I feel I have to repeat a sentiment that has been "done to death" WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!! When you consider that we have the biggest sea port in the country (possibly even Europe) with millions of people travelling every year, not to mention the thousands of people who actually live here, I have to ask why can't we have a hospital like Asford or Canterbury. This is a rhetorical question as I don't expect any sort of answer that'll satisfy me but I feel it's important to keep that question in everyone's mind.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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23 January 2009
23:0113681well stephanie, firstly we live in a town with a small population and very little catchment area.
secondly, my argument in favour of a general hospital has always been(as you mentioned) the ferry passengers
that could be involved in something unpleasant on a large scale.
the emergency services on television stated clearly that they had so many contingency plans in place in case of a
disaster that a lack of hospital facilities in dover did not present a problem.
without their full support, then the idea of a large hospital was never on the cards.
it is a hobby horse for people to demand one when they know full well it will not happen.
therefore, i fully support the polyclinic/day hospital.
Guest 677- Registered: 8 Jul 2008
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23 January 2009
23:1113687Thank you Howard, I have just thought of another question though, if the polyclinic (which by the way I'm not against) is going to provide the same facilities as Buckland did, why is Buckland closing???
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Ross Miller
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23 January 2009
23:1213688Sadly it won't.
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