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The closure of Edward Hain Hospital is particularly painful for those of us who campaigned so hard (in my case in Parliament) and who successfully marched to save the Hospital from threatened closure 23 years ago.
But within months of the Conservatives taking this in 2015 the Hospital was closed. Some believe on a pretext. Then a slow 4 and a half year grinding down of community resistance. The final nail driven into it yesterday.
That's why I and others have started a campaign for a new, purpose-built Edward Hain Hospital. Bigger (20+ inpatient beds), even better and filling the vitally important bridge between the acute (RCHT) service and home. Health chiefs have been instructed by Government to close community hospitals at the very time the Covid pandemic has proven that we need more of them.
The Conservatives promised £millions for a new build major hospital in Cornwall at last year's General Election. Well, if they're sincere about having the money, let's see some of it spent on a new build Edward Hain here in West Cornwall.
Thank you ITV News
Sam Blackledge
St Ives, Cornwall
St. Ives
The Real Love St.Ives
West Cornwall Healthwatch
You hit the nail of the head about the need for intermediate beds at a geographical local level being over looked. In Covid world we live in at present their lack has become even more poignant.
Its all in the grand design. Close it & develope the site. The pressure will then be on Council to process the " new town " developement in Carbis Bay incorporating a new hospital.
No surprise but a tragic loss to the St Ives Community😡😥
It will no doubt please the developers.
This Government never lets inconvenient facts get in the way of the story they want to tell, especially if it's their usual jingoistic nonsense.
According to Conservative Ministers the Covid vaccine roll-out is "the day the UK led humanity's charge against this disease" (see below). Their claim has even less credibility than Trump declaring himself the victor of the US Presidential election.
BioNTech, the German company that did the science, was founded by the children of Turkish immigrants to Germany and is being funded by the European Investment Bank as well as the German government. The project also benefits from two EU programmes: Horizon 2020 InnovFin and the European Fund for Strategic Investments.
Pfizer, the US firm that is part of the vaccine development partnership, is headed by a survivor of the Jewish community of Thessalonica that was almost exterminated by the Nazis during the Second World War.
And it's being manufactured in Belgium.
So it's the product of International collaboration - not narrow and backward-looking nationalism...
But, to the Conservatives, it's evidence of "the UK leading the charge..." More accurately it's the UK Tories leading with their usual lies. I suppose it's whatever appeals to their base...
twitter.com/_EmmaGH/status/1334091009114984448?s=20
I've reached the conclusion that their ever increasing need to lie, illustrates their desperation to justify their current actions and their chronic lack of confidence in any concrete benefits of Brexit.
rushed out more like, i would not trust it, or take anything with aborted foetel cells in from an aborted baby.... no way... and i don't expect we should have restrictions if we make that choice to not have it!
Hey but the main thing is BRITAIN IS ROLLING IT OUT FIRST! That's all that counts, right?
Cummings is still writing the scripts..
What utter crap
I think they wanted to sound positive about UK approval and give hope but it's hopelessly sounded like we did it all ourselves. I'm pretty sure most people know we didn't in terms of this vaccine.
They would steal the sweets from a babies mouth.
A lot of folks might just think that we fast tracked the vaccine without proper safety checks to make a Tory Government look good..... as if :-)
As health chiefs finally confirm its permanent closure we launch a campaign for a new-build, bigger and better Edward Hain Hospital.
Will you get behind us?
West Cornwall Healthwatch
Save our NHS
The Real Love St.Ives
Edward Hain Community Hospital
St. Ives
St Ives Community Orchard
St Ives Community Land Trust
Campaign for New-build Edward Hain Hospital - Andrew George
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The Government may have succeeded in its plan to close Edward Hain Hospital (EHH). But we are determined to ensure it is replaced with a new, bigger and even better purpose-built community hospital and that it shall be named The Edward Hain Memorial Hospital – to reflect and respect the important ...Marcia Bell Vivienne Tregenza
Great idea. However, one still needs to make sure the existing Edward Hain building ends up being used for the community. Who is championing this?
Don't normally agree with you. But you are 100% correct on this. Good luck to you and Councillor Andrew Mitchell.
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The Government is pleased Brexit has been driven from public attention by the Covid Pandemic. Things don't look too good. The Bank of England predicts the potential 'No Deal' Brexit will have an even larger long-term detriment to the UK economy than Covid.
But where are the negotiations and what will it mean for us?
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I am not familiar with the others, but Prof. Dougan is brilliant. Thanks.
Unbelievable what this government is doing, they should be behind bars for treason.
Why on earth did your party prefer Brexit to labour coalition ?
Cause they were buddies?
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The EU was so central to all our lives - we didn’t even think about the ways EU legislation benefited us all (part of the problem in a way) but now as we see the ‘negotiations’ unraveling we realize how much worse off we will be in every sector and every part of our lives.
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