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Gynaecology operations in cabin on Burnley hospital car park |
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Written by Local News
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 a portacabin
GYNAECOLOGY operations will be carried out in a cabin on a hospital car park to tackle bed shortages. To free up more space for A&E casualties and to make room for new A&E beds, a gynaecology theatre and 22-bed ward at the Royal Blackburn Hospital closed yesterday. A portable cabin is to be built on the Burnley General Hospital car park to treat gynaecology patients from all over East Lancashire. Last Monday, the Royal Blackburn Hospital was forced to close its emergency department for three hours, as eight ambulances queued up outside, with 12 more on their way. Those patients had to be taken to hospitals including Bury, Rochdale and Airedale, 28 miles away.
And last week a GP Iain Ashworth slammed the hospital for ‘releasing patients too early’ and warned of ‘third world scenes’ if there was a flu pandemic. Click here to read more from the Lancashire Telegraph..
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 November 2008 )
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Bogus consultants working at Blackburn hospital A&E |
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Written by It's Our NHS
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Sunday, 16 November 2008 |
 Marie Burnham, Hospitals chief executive On the 10th September, five-month-old Callum Murray was rushed by ambulance to the Royal Blackburn Hospital after a health visitor spotted the tell-tale signs of 'meningitis'; a high temperature and a purple rash on his groin and legs.Baby Callum was seen by a doctor at Blackburn A&E who prescribed calpol and sent the baby home. The parents were told by a senior doctor at Blackburn that the doctor who had sent Callum home was not a paediatrician, and therefore could not make a diagnosis. The parents then took the baby to Burnley General hospital where he was diagnosed with meningitis. Callum's parents said "the doctors at Burnley couldn't believe we'd been sent away from Blackburn hospital not knowing what was wrong with him". In response to the allegations, Marie Burnham said "the more senior doctor was in fact a locum doctor. I am disappointed the senior nursing team members did not question why the doctor was allowing Callum to go home without him being referred to a paediatrician". However, according to Callum's parents, when Callum was first admitted, a member of the senior nursing team; a senior doctor at the Royal Blackburn hospital's A&E, did tell them that the doctor who diagnosed Callum was not a paediatrician. What do you think? - Has the closure of the A&E in Burnley led to such overcrowding at Blackburn that babies are turned away?
- Why is our hospital trust unsure of who they employ?
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 16 November 2008 )
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Hospital chaos: 'people will die' warns GP |
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Written by It's Our NHS
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
 GP's very concerned
That is the message GP's are telling hospital managers in East Lancashire after dozens of complaints about patient safety. This time last year, Accident & Emergency services were removed from Burnley General Hospital leaving the Royal Blackburn hospital to deal with all A&E patients in East Lancashire, a population of over 600,000, and growing! It soon became apparent that the sole hospital in Blackburn could not cope with the sheer influx of patients and on Monday night the A&E department at Blackburn had to shut down leaving no A&E department at all in East Lancashire. Dr Ashworth, a Barrowford GP and former hospital consultant said the overcrowding at Blackburn Hospital was putting patients at risk. Click here to read the full article from the Lancashire Telegraph..
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Last Updated ( Friday, 14 November 2008 )
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