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Burnham Questions NHS Unit Closures
October 6, 2006 11:27 AM
Eleanor Burnham AM has written to Health Minister Brian Gibbons demanding answers over the future of day care services for NHS patients in North Wales, following news that the Bodnant unit at Llandudno hospital is to close.
The latest closure is one in a string of units that have recently been shut down under the Health Minister's Designed for North Wales NHS service plan. Ms Burnham, Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for North Wales, is writing demanding clarification of the government's planning for the region as the numbers of concerned constituents rise.
Ms Burnham said: "Designed for North Wales gives a general outline of the government's reconfiguration strategy for NHS services in the area, but this hasn't been communicated to the general public. We still have no warning of which units will be closed and where they will be relocated.
"I have received a number of letters and phonecalls from concerned people across the North who just don't know where they are supposed to go to continue getting treatment and aftercare.
"This is just the problem that we've been tackling in the Assembly. Just this week we succeeded in passing an amendment demanding closer consultation with the public on the provision of NHS services in Wales.
"I'm deeply worried about the stress this places on patients and staff alike and am writing to Mr Gibbons to try and clarify specific details of the future for the cases continually being brought to my attention."
Notes
Designed for North Wales, a government strategy for the reconfiguration of NHS services in the region was launched in April 2006 and is available online at:
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?pid=12687&orgid=530
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