Over time I have aired a number of comments from others and expressed my own concerns about the sad state of affairs that we have where PGI is being replaced by the new smaller Pontefract Hospital. We are shortly to see a grand opening where our MP will take centre stage and will claim her victory, just in time for the General Election.
However certain facts are coming to light that take the gilt of the new project. Pontefract Hospital is about a third of the size of the existing hospital. It will have some beds, but they will be mostly in Wakefield and Dewsbury.
More and more people are finding that to receive their treatment will mean travel to Pinderfields (sorry Wakefield Hospital) or Dewsbury Hospital.
Balfour Beatty the PFI partner are now taking their revenue opportunities and car parking costs are starting to lift off. (BB did the same thing at Edinburgh Royal where the car parking became some of the most expensive in Edinburgh) Operations are being cancelled as staff from other hospitals are told "you can't park that here".
In April 2005 MPs Yvette Cooper and Jon Trickett made commitments to our community about the quality and quantity of local healthcare and they are doing it again.
Do we believe them?
Updated 22nd March 2010 And the answer is.............
Well based on talking to members of the public the penny is starting to drop with more and more people. MYHT talk about the new smaller Pontefract Hospital as providing 90% of the service/capacity. Many people have just spotted that the new hospital is only 30% of the size of the old and those numbers really do not add up.
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