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 Blackburn Hospital - PATIENTS DEMAND ACTION
There's no doubt that removing A&E services from BURNLEY hospital has led to patient suffering. BUT the scale of the failure at Staffordshire General Hospital over the last 3 years defies belief!
Dehydrated patients forced to drink water from flower vases, ambulances queueing ouside, accident victims left unattended for hours, clinical judgements being made by receptionists. To call this Third World treatment is an insult to the Third World. But is this sort of thing happening here at East Lancashire's only A&E in Blackburn?
All the indicators are, it is, and it's been going on since 2007. The closure of A&E services at Burnley in 2007 left the Royal Blackburn Hospital with a mammoth task of catering for the excess A&E intakes from Burnley and surrounding areas. At the same time the Hospital trust also needed to meet government targets so they could gain 'foundation trust status'. LABOUR'S NHS 'REFORMS' BLAMEDIn 2005 the Labour government health minister Lord Darzi came up with the idea that closing A&E's and centralising them will create specialisms and result in better clinical outcomes for some patients. Little thought was given to the result this would have on patient care. Centralised A&E's (super-hospitals) would have to cater for the excess patients left behind from the closure of local A&E services (such as Burnley General Hospital). The RESULT of the ludicrous Labour NHS reforms are there for all to see, with the Royal Blackburn Hospital and the Mid-Staffordshire Hospital bearing the brunt of a 'scheme of reforms' that were implemented without any trials. Patients of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust described one ward as a "war zone" and people were often left waiting in A&E for hours covered in their own blood and without pain relief even though they had serious injuries.
Others were left without food or drink, some received the wrong medication - or none at all - and blood and faeces was left on lavatories and floors.
Your It'sourNHS team are not here to scaremonger, but to relay patient's experiences and to report back on the progress of the ill-named 'meeting patients needs' program that closed the A&E at Burnley. *Our dossier of patients experiences since the closures can be downloaded on the right. You can also visit NHS Choices to see what patients think about the Royal Blackburn Hospital. DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!The healthcare comission, responsible for monitoring NHS trusts, carried out an investigation into patient care at the Mid-Staffordshire Hospital and stated it was unclear how many patients died as a direct result of the failures but the Commission found that mortality rates in emergency care were between 27 per cent and 45 per cent higher than would be expected, equating to between 400 and 1,200 'excess' deaths. Our campaign aims to PREVENT FURTHER EROSION of an NHS system that puts TARGETS before patients. With your support we CAN reinstate A&E services at Burnley thus restoring patient confidence in our NHS system. The link below includes a video revealing 'shocking' information from the Healthcare Commission 1,200 people may have died needlessly due to "appalling standards of care" at a single hospital Related Articles Lord Ara Darzi, who's idea it was to close many A&E departments, is formerly a rectal surgeon (Coloproctologist) plus areas as Oncology, Reproductive Biology and innovator of surgery performed by robotics. Darzi of Denham is by birth an IRAQi, many of his 'theories' such as centralised A&E's based on models in the Ukraine and the Nordic countries who clearly have differing rates of disease and needs. In 2009 Lord Darzi 'quit' under pressure from NHS circles regarding his 'failed model' of 'centralised A&E's and his FAILURE to support his claim they would work inthe UK. Inquiry into Mid-Staffordshire hospital scandal a 'whitewash' relatives say "One of the most telling indicators that things were going badly wrong at Stafford hospital was that too few staff said they'd recommend the hospital to their family or friends."
LABOUR'S REFORMS FORCE NHS STAFF TO THINK OF GOING PRIVATE
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In 2007 when A&E servces were transferred from Burnley General Hospital to the Royal Blackburn hospital it was anticipated the Blackburn hospital would struggle to cope with the additional intakes.
