Petitions

Join my campaign to save Pontefract A&E

It is outrageous that hospital bosses want to close Pontefract A&E, breaking the promises they have repeatedly made to local people that they would keep a 24 hour consultant led A&E in Pontefract.

Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust have said they want to close Pontefract A&E at night from November and to close it completely next year. This is a betrayal of people in Pontefract. Thousands of people have already signed up to support Pontefract A&E which shows just how important this is to our community.

The hospital’s plans mean that nearly 10,000 people year who currently get urgent treatment from doctors at Pontefract A&E would have to travel to Pinderfields instead. But those services won’t cope – over the summer many people contacted my office to tell me of their experiences – some people were already waiting in Pinderfields A&E for more than 9 hours.

A government funded report said closing Pontefract A&E would save them £3m. I fear that the government’s financial cuts and NHS reforms are being put ahead of patient care.

I believe we must not stand for this. We have to fight every step of the way to save our A&E services. You can add your name to my petition if you haven’t already done so below, and by sharing the link through your Facebook and twitter.

                                                                                                                                                  

Join my campaign against broken promises at PGI

 I’m campaigning for more beds and facilities at PGI as we were promised when the plans were drawn up.

 Already thousands of people have signed up to keep A & E at PGI after a government funded report before Christmas proposed closing it to save £3m. As a result NHS officials have agreed to keep it for now but it will be reviewed again next year.

 We’re also campaigning to stop the demolition of some of the existing buildings. The new facilities are great and mean state of the art new treatment, but they aren’t enough. And we were promised that the buildings closest to the new hospital would be kept, as recommended by former Labour minister Ara Darzi.

 ow we are being told that there is no money to use any of the existing buildings and they will all have to be demolished. Yet the local NHS has been told to put aside £40m over the next four years for Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s crazy and costly government re-organisation rather than on services. And it is weakening the NHS: since last summer we have already seen waiting times go up since the targets have been dropped.

 The NHS should not be knocking down a perfectly good building when there are too few beds across the area. We need more beds and services here in Pontefract.

 I’m campaigning hard both locally to save some of the existing buildings and nationally to stop some of these damaging reforms and cuts.

 If you feel the same and would like to get involved then please add your name to my petition below.