I have started a "Save our Blood Clinic" on Facebook. It would help if anyone else could log on to support it. I think you have to ask me to be your friend tho.
I am hoping that there might be someone on the Forum who knows who we could address our concerns to, since it seems to be very complicated as to who pays for this service. For anyone who does not know, it is a District Nurse who runs it, for 2 hours twice a week at the Health Centre in Maison Dieu. Approximately 13 people attend each clinic. This means that potentially 5 more people a day will be having to go to Buckland for their blood tests, and even now it can take up to two weeks to get an appointment.
Unfortunately we do not know when the axe will fall. I believe this is an essential service for the people of Dover.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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you have started one here as well diana, i feel sure that someone from the primary care trust looks in.
it would be nice for them to tell us the full reason for closure.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,304
I don't use Facebook Diana so I can't help. However there is a definate need for another place to give "bloods". Last year I felt dreadful for ages. I went to the doctor who could find nothing wrong with me but nevertheless ordered a blood test. My own surgery do not do blood tests anymore although I understand that this was a source of income for them. I called BHD and was given a date just over a week later. All due credit to them, the test was on a Friday and I was phoned the following day to get myself over to the K&C with acute renal failure.
The point is, had the waiting list been longer, as it inevitably will, what might have happened to me waiting for a longer time?
We need more blood test availability for sure.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I agree Terry - this is very serious.
I have asked for who is responsible for the provision of blood-tests in Dover and will follow this up.
Our surgery in Pencester Road offer blood-tests, but the time-delay is getting longer and longer; putting people's lives at risk, is not good - not good at all and further increases people's concerns about overall health-provision here.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Ive just this week had my first blood test in something like 30 years. So Im fortunate in that I hadnt needed the facility up til now. The doctor initially mentioned the local Health Centre in Maison Dieu Road to me but somehow I ended up in Buckland, so maybe the erasing of the facility has already kicked into proceedings. I had to go to Buckland twice as i forgot first time round to fast for 12 hours..so I unfortunately wasted their time , however i told them before I went through the process so I saved some of the time wasting. The second time I got it right and I have the bruises to prove it.
Im not a member of Facebook either but you have my moral support. We need to hold on to our facilities.
Thank you for your support. It's such a small thing that cannot cost more than £100 or so a week at the outside!
Diana
On the 31st March I put a thead on this forum titled "Deteriorating Health Service inDover".(suggest you read the thread)
Howards posting 42 on this thread is factual.
However I feel it has to be the PCT who seem to squander funding from front line activities that is not addressed by our current MP or Government.
Perhaps a new MP for Dover and a new Health Minister at Central Government will reduce the disproportianate admin costs within the NHS with the result of more finance to the front line.
Certainly my original thread raised this issue which has not even been acknowledged by Mr Prosser.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Just to add a bit about our search engine following Pats post there. There is a search engine for finding old threads top right of Members central Forum Page..or "anchor page" as I like to call it. Its a good help when looking for old threads. Its only visible when you log in.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
diana,good luck for your campain.
Good luck Diana i have a condition where i need regular blood tests , luckily my gp still does them for now .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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sorry to hear about your health problem mark, my gp still has the facility.
without that instant access there is a very good chance i would have kicked the bucket less than a month ago.
hence i fully support the campaign of diana supported by pat.
The 1997 Labour Manifesto words from Tony B Liar:
"In health policy, we will safeguard the basic principles of the NHS, which we founded, but will not return to the top-down management of the 1970s. So we will keep the planning and provision of healthcare separate, but put planning on a longer-term, decentralised and more co-operative basis. The key is to root out unnecessary administrative cost, and to spend money on the right things - frontline care. "
Strange that 13 years on we are having a discussion about the Labour imposed over-administration of the NHS and a running down/removal of front line services. And people still want to vote for them again; amazing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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rather a cheap shot sid, primary care trusts are run by bureaucrats not politicos.
how can any political party have control over so many areas?
Cheap shot? That is a cheap shot, and a typically New Labour spinning reply if I may say so.
If anyone thinks Government doesn't set the agenda and pull the strings, especially the purse strings, then I can only say how surprised I am that one could be so naive.
New Labour made a clear manifesto pledge that addresses the concerns mentioned in this and the other thread.
IF they had met their manifesto pledge, we wouldn't be having the conversation. Say no more!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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sid
i am not new labour or indeed manufactured labour.
i remember how things were in the past and how things are now with the nhs.
the facts speak for themselves.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yep faceless bureaucrats again,just like the eu ones.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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But as Sid said, if politicos don't make the decisions, why put it in a manifesto ? Of course they do, they may devolve the responsibilities to the PCT/and Health Trusts, but on guidance/instructions from the Government.
Another Labour lie exposed - and there's too many to list.
One big one though is that they are admitting putting blatant lies on their leaflets about non-existant Conservative cuts and according to GB, that's O.K.
How low can they go ? - why do people support them after 13 years of lies - and incompentance.
Roger
Thanks Howard whoever wins the election will have trouble with the health service , there certainly cannot be any cuts to the health budgit .
I have communicated with the South East Coast NHS which I hope is the right body to approach. Awaiting reply (not with baited breath because I have enough health problems!).
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
roger
the leaflets sent out by the blues contain some rubbish.
for example
all patients can decide which hospital and the date to see a specialist!!
this has been in operation for some time under the reds.
all patients can choose the specialist!!
what if everyone chose one in each hospital?
the waiting list be miles long.
all patients can choose their gp!!
in all areas one is always very popular, so that would not work for the same reason as above.