Save Bovey Tracey Hospital

Community Hospitals provide health and medical services such as minor injuries departments and hospital beds for those well enough to be released from General Hospitals but still too sick to return to their own homes.

These hospitals act as intermediaries, providing care for some of the most vulnerable people in south devon in particular the old and infirm.

Beds in community hospitals mean General Hospitals are able to move recovering patients enabling them to treat more critical patients. Losing these beds will only serve to bed block General Hospitals, such as Torbay, Exeter & Plymouth, leading to poorer service.

When it comes to Medical treatment this can be the difference in providing outstanding care (saving lives), or being prevented from treating the sick or injured (resulting in preventable deaths and suffering).

My understanding is that Bovey Tracey Community Hospital has been temporarily closed for some time now, and unless action is taken now, it will be made permanent under these proposals.