WHY WE HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE PCT

HEALTH bosses have been told to 'stop, spinning and start listening' in their consultation on the future of local hospitals.

By The Newsroom

Published 24th Jul 2007, 15:24 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:26 BST

Arundel and South Downs MP Nick Herbert made the call after he took issue with a West Sussex Primary Care Trust news release last week in which it announced that it was 'waging a war on unfounded myths' surrounding the proposed changes outlined in the Fit for the Future consultation.

The PCT claimed that there were three such myths: that hospitals would be downgraded, choices would be reduced for pregnant women, and patients' lives will be at risk from longer ambulance journeys to A&E.

But speaking at a parish meeting in Hassocks on Friday, called to discuss the PCT's proposals, Nick Herbert rounded on the trust, saying that, far from being myths, each of the statements was 'self-evidently true'.

For full story see West Sussex Gazette September 26

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