tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post2068848630808698465..comments2024-03-29T13:22:41.840+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Brent Labour shrinks from supporting Ealing on hospital reorganisationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-85965185014600747942013-03-20T12:26:19.537+00:002013-03-20T12:26:19.537+00:00Of course, the facilities at the eventual long-ter...Of course, the facilities at the eventual long-term blue-light A&E departments need to be enlarged to cope. Furthermore, the efficiency of the ambulance service is crucial to a system with fewer such A&E departments.<br /><br />But the decision to reduce the number of blue-light A&Es in London is the right one. That concentrates more experienced doctors in larger teams, with consultants and diagnostic staff available even at weekends.<br /><br />It may be a matter of fighting for the money in austerity Britain, to properly fund the changeover, but the change itself will save lives and give better outcomes. It has already with the concentration on specialist hospitals for stroke and heart emergencies.<br /><br />We need to hear in more detail therefore, why there were two stroke victims in a lengthy queue at Northwick Park, and also why they had not been taken elsewhere. <br /><br />Politicians have to change their fights from where hospitals are, which should be a clinical decision, to the proper funding of the new hospital model, and new resources available to the ambulance service.<br /><br />JCoxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com