Dilke Memorial Hospital
I was like many was born at the Charles Dilke Memorial Hospital on the 30th of December 1950, Sister Perie picked me up wacked my backside, because I was the one Morgan Brother that would not cry, and according to my father once she started me sqawking I have never stopped since.
I find myself for the second time in my life fighting against the closure of this fine Hospital,like many others my father started work at The Parkend Deep Navigation Companies New Fancy Colliery on 15 shillings per week, out of this each week he paid nine old pence to Gloucester Royal Infirmery in Southgate St and sixpence to the Dilke Hospital,this Hospital is not theirs to sell.
The reasons for the situation we face are many, and yes the Government cannot escape with no blame, this is happening on their watch, but yet by far the most glaring example for the problem when you ask any nurse or hospital porter is empire building and top heavey management, and how many of us have seen this before in private industry, and to our peril.
The Government say that no community hospital should close on the grounds of costs, so if this is the case, they must make it illegal for the local health trust to do so.
If they will not do this, "We Foresters will stop them", how do we do this, We buy the Dilke Memorial Hospital, we have money that can be used and land to swap,buy the hospital repair the heating system, then where is the legal excuse to close.
I find myself for the second time in my life fighting against the closure of this fine Hospital,like many others my father started work at The Parkend Deep Navigation Companies New Fancy Colliery on 15 shillings per week, out of this each week he paid nine old pence to Gloucester Royal Infirmery in Southgate St and sixpence to the Dilke Hospital,this Hospital is not theirs to sell.
The reasons for the situation we face are many, and yes the Government cannot escape with no blame, this is happening on their watch, but yet by far the most glaring example for the problem when you ask any nurse or hospital porter is empire building and top heavey management, and how many of us have seen this before in private industry, and to our peril.
The Government say that no community hospital should close on the grounds of costs, so if this is the case, they must make it illegal for the local health trust to do so.
If they will not do this, "We Foresters will stop them", how do we do this, We buy the Dilke Memorial Hospital, we have money that can be used and land to swap,buy the hospital repair the heating system, then where is the legal excuse to close.
posted by graham_morgan at 12:21 am
