“…County Councillor Claire Wright said: “It’s an absolute travesty. We heard that 11,000 people signed petitions to save the hospitals and they didn’t answer my question as they said they didn’t have enough information on how much a health hub would cost. The CCG say they are saving £500,000 but they haven’t costed in how much it will cost to create a health hub, which in Budleigh Salterton cost £800,000 and they haven’t costed how much home-based care will cost. It doesn’t stack up financially as they say that’s detail and are using numbers to their own advantage.”
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It has been reported that MP Hugo Swire has “condemned” the CCG decision. He may have verbally condemned the decision, but what is he actually doing about it? Nothing, as usual, I suspect.
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This decision is an insult to the people of Axminster and other communities who have worked so hard to keep the beds at their local hospitals. The Commissioning Group have kept ‘dangling the residents on a piece of string’ for so very long and raising their hopes – all to no avail. Was this a decision made long ago but kept under covers until after the election? I think so.
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