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Stressed Health Trust staff under added pressure
Eastbourne Today

Hospital trust's £4million invoice for outside advice
Hastings Observer
... which also runs Eastbourne DGH, had spent £4105605 on outside advice. ... “Spending £4 million on how to save £4 million is a little bizarre. ...

Cash-strapped Trust defends spending on outside consultants
Eastbourne Today
THE cash-strapped NHS Trust which runs Eastbourne DGH has spent more than £4million on outside consultants in the last year. The Herald revealed earlier ...

Staff upset by hospital chief's latest warning
Eastbourne Today
UNION bosses at the DGH have hit out at comments made by the hospital's chief ... would be needed to save a mammoth £100million over the next five years. ..

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September 28th

A protest against the current proposals to remove emergency heart intervention treatment and possible threat AGAIN to downgrade our Maternity unit this morning saw over 200 people join us at 7.30am. An open letter (see link) was handed over to Darren Grayson Chief Executive of ESHT (the Trust that run Eastbourne DGH) and Stuart Welling who is the Chair of ESHT.

 

On the 15th September we said......

We have been told that emergency treatment (intervention) for heart attack victims is not going to be done at Eastbourne DGH with patients being taken to the Conquest in Hastings from April 2012. If you speak to anyone with medical expertise even they agree that this must remain at both hospitals. There has been no consultation on this and as far as we are aware even the local doctors are unaware!!

It is almost 5 years (to the day – 16th September) that people marched in protest at proposals to downgrade our local Maternity unit. We fought these proposals and eventually in September 2008 the Secretary of State for Health agreed with us and said the local NHS must not do this.

We remain very concerned about the Maternity Review being carried out by the Trust which runs the hospital which we think may result once again in downgrading the local unit. So now with this other threat it does beg the question what price do you put on lives!! We are extremely concerned and will fight any plans to downgrade the DGH or take away any core service it provides for the people of Eastbourne and all the surrounding towns and villages.

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