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To: Eric Pickles, Department of Communities & Local Government
We request an immediate investigation into the sale of the land at Hartlepool hospital.
We want an immediate investigation into the sale of the land that Hartlepool hospital currently sits on. We believe it was wrong to sell the very land the hospital is built upon; before an alternative site was found or built upon. We do not believe that due diligence or due process has been followed in this transaction. We demand a public enquiry into this matter so the people of Hartlepool are left in no doubt whatsoever as to who instigated this move and why.
Why is this important?
Hartlepool hospital has systematically been stripped of it's A&E department and virtually all of it's clinical and surgical services, on a vague promise that an alternative hospital would be built on land at Wynyard. Now, the North Tees and Hartlepool Trust, our local Hartlepool MP, Iain Wright and the Hartlepool Borough Council are all on public record saying this will never happen. It was completely foolhardy and indeed negligent of Hartlepool Borough Council to allow the sale of this land to happen under these circumstances.
I believe it was complete madness to allow a perfectly good training hospital to be stripped of it's staff, resources, assets and have the very land it sits upon sold from under it, without a cast iron guarantee of a replacement. I feel that this has been done surreptitiously, without the prior knowledge, consultation or consent of the people of Hartlepool
I believe it was complete madness to allow a perfectly good training hospital to be stripped of it's staff, resources, assets and have the very land it sits upon sold from under it, without a cast iron guarantee of a replacement. I feel that this has been done surreptitiously, without the prior knowledge, consultation or consent of the people of Hartlepool
