SUPPORT CITY HOSPITAL
The City Hospital Supporters Group was established on Saturday 9th December 2006 when over 100 members of the staff from all branches of the workforce expressed their support for its objective…
That the people of West Birmingham continue to have 24-hour access to high quality emergency care for adults and children on the City Hospital site, until a new hospital, which can provide this service, opens its doors.
What is being planned by the hospital management?
Moving Inpatient Emergency General and Trauma Surgery from City Hospital to Sandwell Hospital.
Moving overnight-stay Children’s Beds from City Hospital to Sandwell Hospital and only offering a 12 hour Children’s Assessment Unit at City Hospital
Why should we be concerned?
City Hospital’s Emergency Department, the nearest to the City Centre, sees over 100,000 referrals per year with more stabbings and shootings than any other hospital in the Midlands and probably in the UK.
City Hospital sees almost twice as many emergency surgery patients as Sandwell Hospital.
These two facts mean that moving Emergency General and Trauma Surgery from City Hospital to Sandwell Hospital makes no sense!
Moving these services will also affect the training of the doctors and the reputation of City Hospital, making it less likely to be able to attract the best staff in the future.
This will mean a second-rate service for the people of West Birmingham.
City Hospital currently sees any child that is brought to the hospital, whether by the family (to the emergency department) or because they have been referred by a general practitioner (GP). If the hospital management decide not to have children’s doctors (paediatricians) at City Hospital 24 hours a day, such children will need to be transferred to Sandwell Hospital for assessment.
This will mean a second-rate service for the children of West Birmingham.
What can you do about it?
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