Urgent Treatment Centres deal with non-life threatening health issues nd relieve pressure on hosptal A&Es. With the latest CQC report on Northwick Park Hospital revealing waits of up to 12 hours the important role of the UTC at Central Middlesex is highlighred.
The NHS has proposed that the current hours at Central Middlesex Hospital UTC (below) are reduced by 3 hours a day despite these pressures and the increase in the local populations from the new developments taking place locally. This means the UTC will close at 9pm with the last patients registered at 8pm. See LINK
The petition below has been launched to urge Brent Council's Scrutiny Committee to consider the impact on local people of the proposal. Sign the e-petition here:
https://tinyurl.com/protect-urgent-care
Brent Council Community and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee must consider proposals to reduce the opening hours of Central Middlesex Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre
We the undersigned petition Brent Council’s Community and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee to convene an urgent meeting of the Community and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee to consider NHS proposals to cut the opening hours of the Urgent Treatment Centre at Central Middlesex Hospital by 3 hours a day, 21 hours a week.
In 2014, Central Middlesex Hospital A&E Department closed following a decision from the then Conservative Heath Secretary Jeremy Hunt. At the time, we were told that the opening of an Urgent Care Centre at Central Middlesex hospital would mitigate the loss of the A&E department. However, in 2019, the hours of the Urgent Care Centre were reduced when the overnight Service Centre was withdrawn. Six years down the line, we are faced with yet another reduction of the renamed Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The Centre currently closes at midnight but, if London NW University Healthcare Trust go ahead with their proposal, it will close at 9pm.
We the undersigned are therefore firmly opposed to a further reduction of NHS services that will undoubtedly put more pressure on Northwick Park Hospital A&E and UTC and will lead to fewer people getting the required medical attention as quickly as necessary and call on the current plans to reduce the UTC hours by 3 hours each evening to form the agenda of a specially convened Community and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee to be held as soon as possible.
We note that the 2019 proposals were considered by that Committee in July 2019 setting a precedent for the views of the Council and residents to be represented.
People who live, work or study in Brent can sign the petition here:
https://tinyurl.com/protect-urgent-care
14 comments:
Please make the link to the petition more visable - my friends missed it completely
Is it Brent Council making the decision though?
Thanks for pointing this out. Done.
No but Brent Council has a role in making representations to the NHS on decisions that affect its residents. They can do this by calling in NHS management to examine the reasons for the proposal and make recommendations. They did this over the previous reduction in hours.
Brent Council are giving planning permission for all the high density developments cramming in new residents, including thousands of students, so need to ensure all residents have proper access to health care - services at Central Middlesex cannot be cut.
Central Middlesex UTC is always packed.
With Wembley High Road closed because of the major incident yesterday and all buses still diverted how would residents of Stonebridge, Harlesden etc reach Northwick Park urgent care centre?
Yes, the amplified neighbourhood services NHS so politically beloved is not really needed in de-populating family houses conservation areas. Brent no-plan transparent population growth zones health needs being met at tower hundreds scale is a best use of public funds. Central Middlesex, a giant new City hospital/ services expansion should be the plan, if there was a plan.
Inequalities by political design. Politicians manage to create so much distraction and total fail to represent lives, health and human wellbeing in massive scale population growths zoned.
Assisted dying- the state not/never planning to meet the health needs of population growth zones to appropriate scale.
Access to NHS healthcare provision and services to scale for this new car-free/no gardens tenanted towers zone. Infrastructure it, neighbourhood it, greenways it, don't climate deny it and design it resilient and for human life. The benchmark is already set and being delivered on in the conservation areas.
It probably has something to do with the massive cuts being forced on the Hospital Trust by the Department for Health aka Wesley Streeting MP. Why doesn't anyone say this out loud? Streeting obviously wants, and is enabling his friends the Private Providers and IT companies like Palantir into the NHS. You know, the companies that sponsor most of the cabinet members of this poxy Government of ours. Labour Party, you must be joking, they are the new centre right party in the UK after being infiltrated by careerist, lobbyists and wannabe MPs, like so many of our Brent Councillors and new candidates.
Let the market decide and the market has decided. Welfare state infrastructure investment and provision will be off-set to conservation areas, well away from the new tenanted towers population growth zones. Next pandemic, just replace and re-fill these towers with another Boris wave.
Is it possible to.promote this petition wider so that more people sign it - thank you!
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