Chris Mole and Andy Burnham lay into Ben Gummer by saying that the only way he can be serious about the health service is by backing Labour’s plans. All very partisan and stirring.
But there’s not a mention about Ipswich hospital and its status as something more than a district general hospital, which means one of:
1) [...]
Bridge Ward News
News from Bridge Ward, Ipswich including the Hayes, Old Stoke, Prince of Wales Drive, Maidenhall Estate and Wherstead Road
Browsing the archives for the Ipswich Hospital category
14 Feb 10
But what about the Hospital, Chris?
15 Jan 10
Heart Campaign: Ben Gummer’s Advance
The Evening Star has a piece about a substantial step forward in the campaign to stop heart services being removed from Ipswich hospital. Would it have been at all possible without Ben Gummer’s campaign and investigation?
In other words if had been left to Chris Mole then the heart services would have gone. There’s no use [...]
22 Aug 09
Ipswich Hospital Trust
You can join the Ipswich Hospital Trust at the link below:
http://www.ipswichhospital.net/foundationtrust/membership.asp
I know that some people who read this blog may be suspicious of this, but we need to get some local involvement and direction in our health services, and setting up and taking part in the trust is the best way we have available.
14 Aug 09
Does this get a prize?
I was at a meeting of the Maidenhall Residents Association last night talking about the Southern Cement noise and talking about the far flung places it has been heard – Chantry Estate, Belstead Brook, Wherstead Village. “Well I heard it down the Ipswich Hospital when I visited my daughter.”
That’s the furthest, by far
11 Aug 09
Ipswich Heart Services – a good idea from the Star
The Evening Star have come up with a really good idea about the problem with the heart services and the fact that Chris Mole won’t get Ipswich the funding that Ian Gibson got for Norwich. They’ve asked everyone in Ipswich to donate £1 – with 350,000 people in the catchment area of the hospital then [...]
7 Jul 09
Ipswich Heart Services: At last they see sense
Update: It’s changed a lot since I wrote this. This article in the Evening Star says that there will be moves to explore setting up a specialist heart center for Ipswich. Well done Ben Gummer! Now I have to replace the headline “Not good enough”.
So they are still going to move the heart services to [...]
28 Jun 09
Heart Debate reminder
Just a reminder that the Heart Debate is on today. Do you think that we deserve a heart service in Ipswich or do you think we should go to Cambridge if we have a heart attack?
7 PM, Endeavour House, 8 Russell Road.
26 Jun 09
Heart Debate
The BIG Health Debate
Conservatve spokesman Ben Gummer goes head to head with Chris Mole over the future of emergency cardiac services at Ipswich Hospital.
Chris Mole will be speaking in favour of heart attack victims in Bridge going to Norwich, Cambridge or Basildon. Ben Gummer will be speaking in favour of heart attack victims going to [...]
