P-05-826 Pembrokeshire says NO!! To the closure of Withybush A&E!
P-05-826 Pembrokeshire says NO!! To the closure of Withybush A&E!
P-05-826
Pembrokeshire says NO!! To the closure of Withybush A&E!
This petition was submitted by Myles Bamford-Lewis having collected 40,045 signatures.
Text of Petition
We the undersigned are
calling on the Welsh Government and Hywel Dda Health Board to reverse their
decision to downgrade our county hospital and to remove our A&E.
The Hywel Dda Health Board
has proposed drastic changes to how hospital services are provided in West
Wales. They propose a downgrading of our county's Withybush general hospital
and Carmarthenshire's Glangwili general hospital, both to community hospital
standard and a new general hospital to be built around the Whitland area. But
this also means that we will no longer have a fully functioning A&E
department within our county as it will be replaced by a minor injury unit at
the Withybush site. In doing so patients who require emergency care in our county
will be faced with traveling for up to an hour, possibly even more if you live
in our county's more rural areas just to have that life-saving emergency care
in a hospital that will be outside the county. A time scale that not only is
putting Pembrokeshire lives at risk but doesn't even factor in that added time
of having to wait for an ambulance to get to where a patient may be,
stabilising the patient, then transporting that patient to a hospital that is
beyond the borders of our county. Crucial minutes lost in a situation where
time is already not on your side.
Having no A&E
department within our county is completely unacceptable and is all in the name
of cutting costs but more importantly cutting corners. Well Pembrokeshire is
one corner of Wales that we will not let them cut us off the map!
Please sign and share, we
can't let the Welsh Government and the Hywel Dda Health Board take our county's
greatest asset away from us. They've already taken our SCBU, our Consultant led
maternity and our 24 hour paediatric care away from us.. already putting our
babies, children and mothers at great risk! Now they are coming to finish off
the rest of our county's hospital services. Please don't let that happen!
Together we will send
Steve Moore and Vaughan Gething a message that they can think again if they
think Pembrokeshire will go down without a fight while they strip our hospital
away from us!
Save Withybush A&E!
Save Withybush Hospital!
Status
This
petition was considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on
12/01/2021.
The
Committee noted that no correspondence had been received by the petitioner and
agreed to close the petition in light of this.
Full
details of the consideration of this petitions by the committee and related
documents can be seen on the Meetings tab above.
It
was first considered by the Petitions Committee on 17/07/2018.
Assembly Constituency and
Region
- Preseli Pembrokeshire
- Mid and West Wales
Further information
Business type: Petition
First published: 09/07/2018