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Just before Jean and I went on holiday on the 27th. of April, I sent round a petition about the hospital to the over 500 odd people whose email address I have, asking them to sign the petition and get their friends, neighbourbours, relations and work colleagues to sign it; also asking them to pass the petition on to all their friends, neighbours relations and work colleagues and so on and so on.
Lorraine replied that she had sent it on to over 100 people, so if everyone did that, there would soon be 25,000 or more signatures.
A community Hospital is a good start, but Thanet have around 110,000 residents and they have the QEQM; Ashford have about 120,000 residents and the William Harvey; Canterbury have around 130,000 and the K & C - Dover has around 108,000 and the proposal to build around 10,000 more homes which must bring at least 20,000 more people put us up to around 125,000 to 130,000, so we must be eligible for a General Hospital based on those figures.
Not only is a lot of space required for a hospital, but also car-parking - none of the above hospitals have enough car-park spaces.
Community hospitals don't (generally) have the heart, stroke, transplant and other surgery resources, human or equipment, that a general hospital does, so an awful lot of commitment in terms of capital outlay on all levels of staff and necessary equipment.
Roger