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To: The Rt Hon Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Save Lives. Save Teignmouth Community Hospital. Protect OUR NHS.
Stop the A&E crisis with ambulances not able to discharge patients due to General Hospitals having insufficient beds and Community Hospitals being closed. Reverse the decision to close Teignmouth Hospital, the first purpose-built hospital for the NHS ensuring it has inpatient beds. Ensure that our NHS remains in public ownership.
Why is this important?
We have ONE WEEK to protect the NHS as we know it. On 1st July it will be fragmented into 42 Integrated Care Boards. We are on the slippery slope of having an American style health care system, which the wealthy can afford and the poor cannot. Caring for the elderly, frail and vulnerable shows a civilized society. Enabling sick patients to recover in comfort is vital. Community hospitals are ideal for those who need extra medical intervention on discharge from acute hospitals. We should be proud of our heritage and enable the first purpose-built hospital for the NHS to survive and thrive, especially as it will be a fraction of the cost of the processed new-build Health and Wellbeing Centre, thus SAVING taxpayers' money.
