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To: Essex County Council.
Say no to health cuts at Broomfield Hospital
Reject the local NHS Sustainability & Transformation Partnership (STP) plans , by referring the proposals back to the health secretary.
Why is this important?
The unitary authorities in Southend and Basildon & Thurrock have listened to local people and rejected the local STP plans, a huge reorganisation of our local NHS driven by massive cuts. https://www.theenquirer.co.uk/more-protests-over-planned-nhs-cuts-and-proposed-hospital-merger/
Although we won the first battle to keep A&E services at Broomfield, these current plans will see many emergency patients, once stabilised, transferred to Basildon. In one way these plans are far worse for people in the Chelmsford and the mid-Essex health area, than they are for people in Southend. Southend at least has a direct train route to Basildon. If you want to get a train to visit a relative in Basildon from here you need to go via London. The public transport links are woeful. Chelmsford to Basildon by public transport is bad enough. Halstead to Basildon is virtually impossible. Yet support from friends and family is vital for patients in recovery.
Councillors in Southend and Thurrock have put our representatives with responsibility to scrutinise these plans on Essex County Council to shame. Our county councillors now need to step up to the plate and stand by the people of mid-Essex. It needs to be made quite clear to the health secretary that Chelmsford and mid-Essex rejects these plans every bit as much as Thurrock and Southend.
