From the Slough Observer:
TWO hospital trusts are investigating a potential merger, it has been revealed.
The Boards of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are investigating the benefits of a closer working partnership between the two hospital trusts.
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be leading an initial assessment and, depending on the outcome of this, will decide whether to explore a potential acquisition.
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A personal view as a Patient.
It will soon become a day-trip out for patients to attend hospital appointments. When I was ill a couple of years ago I stayed in Wexham Park Hospital , attended out patients at King Edward in Windsor and then St Marks in Maidenhead. I narowly missed out a trip to Heatherwood.
How can you expect a resident of Colbrook who has no car to go to somewhere near Camberley if these changes came about. Maybe we could ask TGM for a coach and get everyone to go to Frimley for their appointments and have a picnic on the way home. It is not even in Berkshire so you may need a passport or some form of identity to leave the area. Obviously the ‘BOARDS’ of these hospitals want to justify their salaries and expenditure on this type of thing instead of putting more into front line services like keeping wards open by getting more nurses etc. Hospitals are there to treat the ill and sick people and not pieces on some sort of boardroom Monopoly game. Doctors surgeries are being squeezed into single units to maximise revenue again often with no thought for the patient. Colnbrook and Poyle has a large enough population to have a proper everyday surgery not a converted house that is often closed. Community cohesion used to thrive on having three basic elements that you could always rely on to be therefor health care, A local doctor, a local surgery and a local nurse. We still have all of these but at a cost to our community where we now often have to go outside of Colnbrook to get these services.