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To: The incoming Conservative Prime Minister
Petition for the Return to Use of Hartlepool Hospital
As part of the campaign for Brexit we have been promised that the £100 million previously given to the EU will be available for the NHS. It will only take a fraction of that to re-open and run our fully equipped hospital in Hartlepool & there is no need for outside investors or profit makers to take any of it. We have been previously told the EU is the bar to providing this funding, now that we have voted to leave, we demand the money is provided directly to re-open the hospital as a publicly controlled and owned asset, and return it to full functioning.
Why is this important?
Hartlepool is a city of 100,000 people. Our General Hospital, later called the University Hospital of Hartlepool, covered not just that population, but another 100,000 people in towns and villages to the North of Hartlepool.
Since the closure of our Accident Emergency and the moving of many of our services from our state of the art modern hospital to another hospital to the South, some fifteen miles away of Hartlepool, there have been higher than expected annual death rates; to the extent that it has become a matter of concern. it takes a full extra 30 minutes to arrive at A&E from Hartlepool, and it takes more than an hour to arrive at that same overcrowded A&E from other local areas.
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The ill and infirm, and anyone who wishes to visit them, have a very long journeys when sick, or to visit. This is intolerable hardship when a hospital still stands which could serve all the needs of the local population. This not only increases the financial hardship in terms of travelling costs, but it increases travelling times and the need to travel for all of the staff too.
To add to this all of the data regarding privatisation has shown that patients are not the first priority. Fortunately we have been promised that a fully funded national service is now within our remit and a solid possibility, and this will better serve the population and less profit will go to large business based in other countries. We ask for direct funding to again have the NHS and the Hospital which our society deserves.
