The Isle of Wight’s Member of Parliament, Bob Seely, paid a visit to the Emergency Department at St Mary’s Hospital on Monday to thank the team for everything they do for the Isle of Wight community.
As well as passing on the feedback he receives from local residents, which is said to be mostly positive, Mr Seely discussed the pressures the Island’s only hospital faces with clinical and managerial staff.
Commenting on the plans in place to ease the pressure on St Mary’s, which results in the Emergency Department becoming overwhelmed and surgeries cancelled, Mr Seely said:
“New contracts for GPs are being introduced to offer more out-of-hours and weekend appointments. The Government will also give more prescription powers to pharmacists, who are an important part of the primary care system.
“There are currently too many people waiting in hospital, as the system between St Mary’s and adult social care is not fully integrated. The new Integrated Care Boards – ICBs – will help fix this, with the government contributing an additional £500 million worth of funding nationwide.
“At St Mary’s, new building works are expected to start next month and finish by March 2024. In addition, last week, the Government agreed a new £10 million Community Diagnostic Centre for the Island. Both these projects will help the NHS offer Islanders a better and more efficient service.
“The Isle of Wight’s healthcare services will share more staff with Portsmouth. The Department for Health and Social Care consider St Mary’s to be an Unavoidably Small Hospital. As healthcare becomes more specialised, we’ll work with others to ensure we keep as much high-quality treatment on the Island as possible.
“I am meeting the new integrated care board tomorrow to discuss coordinating healthcare on the Island. I will write to Government Minsters to pursue the expected £500 million in extra nationwide support, and to ask about funding for improved digital systems.”
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He would never want to visit this atttocity for treatment
Even he ain’t that stupid
And did “Seldom Seen” go with a better pay offer for our NHS workers??? See that tumble weed don’t know which is moving faster down the street! That or “Seldom Seen” when asked!.
Why the masks again? Time to ramp up the hysteria??? Gods sake, move on,
The W E F rule
Just another pathetic photo opportunity/stunt by sausage Bob.
Bit cold to attend a barby in Seaview
Oh Julian get a brain transplant
100%ramp..fear..ramp..ramp…scared sheep roll ip roll up
A picture paints a thousand words!! Let’s see Bob wear his mask in the House of Commons.
It’s all about ramping up the fear.
I fail to see how the lack of social care can be the only reason given for the hospital problems. To use another analogy. Years ago we would all queue at our local International or Gateways shops in our towns.Now due to a multitude of bigger stores, we hardly queue at all. So as these multiple of shops are managing with a far bigger population than in the 70s, it stands to reason that another or far bigger hospital is required. We used to have 5 & now only one. Population verses resources. It’s a no brainier. Maybe as the PM is pulling more U turns than a Hollywood stunt driver at the mo. She could reverse the amount of new builds to zero over here. After all it is an Island Not The Tardis!!
A typical supermarket worker (non management) undergoes around 18 hours of training before being let loose in the store.
A nurse take 4 years to train, a doctor 7 years.
That’s without specialisation. A GP takes 10 years to complete their training, for example.
The issue isn’t that there aren’t enough hospitals, the issue is that there are nowhere near enough staff to put in them if they are built. The current St Mary’s is critically understaffed anyway, so finding staff for a 2nd hospital it a non starter.
And now we have Captain Austerity himself as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The bloke who put the NHS in its current state how holds all the all of the purse strings and he’s already promising massive cuts to public services.
The Elephant in the room as regards discharging patients to ‘Social Care’ lays solidly with the Government’s insistence that all people working in the Care Sector HAD to have a COVID jab or lose their jobs.
However, they very quickly rowed back when they tried to insist that all NHS Staff had to be vaccinated!
There you go Bob – tell the Health Secretary TGAT is the reason for so-called ‘bed blocking’!
Nice headline grab by half a sausage. Didn’t have to do anything, just watch other people working.
Mask under the nose brilliant