Success Regime Essex favoured option

For those who are confused – Success Regime Essex favoured is Option 2A – please see documents section.

Option 2A DOWNGRADES Southend A&E to a ‘yellow local emergency centre’. This will NOT ACCEPT blue light ambulances carrying patients with serious of life threatening emergencies AT ANY TIME. They will bypass Southend A&E and have to travel straight to the designated ‘specialist emergency centre’ at Basildon.

It doesn’t matter how ‘time critical’ that emergency is – the ambulance will have to battle through congested roads to get to Basildon. THIS WILL COST LIVES. We are part of a 44 area Government plan (STP) to restructure and centralise health services which is financially driven. We refuse to allow the lives of ourselves, friends, family and local community to become ‘collateral damage’ in the name of savings.

VOTE LOCAL and VOTE WISELY.

Our campaign is supported by medical personnel from all disciplines. Trust the people on the floor – not the press and MPs. The real facts are here. #SaveSouthend

2 Comments

Lynda Lawrie on May 28, 2017 at 6:32 pm

What else can we do as individuals? Will the outcome be affected by how we vote in the general election on the 8th June, if so how should we vote, if we cannot trust the candidates to listen to the Save Southend A and E campaign?

Save Southend AandE on May 30, 2017 at 1:31 pm

We are not a party political campaign but we recognise that it is the current Conservative government’s policies that are driving these proposals through.
In Southend, we know that Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green and Independent candidates have all stated that they are opposed to the proposed downgrade of A&E at Southend.
The Conservative MP for Southend West, Sir David Amess, has also promised to oppose his own party on this issue. So far, we are not aware of other Conservative candidates taking this position.
Some parties, for instance the Labour Party and the Green Party are committed in their national manifestos to scrapping the ‘STP’s (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) which have led to the threat to our A&E.
It is not up to us to tell you how to vote but we believe the people of Southend are capable of making their own informed choice of candidates and our role is to help provide you with the correct information and the facts to make that choice.
We would also encourage voters to contact the candidates for their area to ask them where they stand on this issue and look at the parties’ manifestos to decide who will best defend our NHS and our A&E.
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Lynda Lawrie on May 28, 2017 at 6:32 pm

What else can we do as individuals? Will the outcome be affected by how we vote in the general election on the 8th June, if so how should we vote, if we cannot trust the candidates to listen to the Save Southend A and E campaign?
- Save Southend AandE on May 30, 2017 at 1:31 pm
  
  We are not a party political campaign but we recognise that it is the current Conservative government’s policies that are driving these proposals through.
  In Southend, we know that Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green and Independent candidates have all stated that they are opposed to the proposed downgrade of A&E at Southend.
  The Conservative MP for Southend West, Sir David Amess, has also promised to oppose his own party on this issue. So far, we are not aware of other Conservative candidates taking this position.
  Some parties, for instance the Labour Party and the Green Party are committed in their national manifestos to scrapping the ‘STP’s (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) which have led to the threat to our A&E.
  It is not up to us to tell you how to vote but we believe the people of Southend are capable of making their own informed choice of candidates and our role is to help provide you with the correct information and the facts to make that choice.
  We would also encourage voters to contact the candidates for their area to ask them where they stand on this issue and look at the parties’ manifestos to decide who will best defend our NHS and our A&E.