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February 9, 2007
SUPPORT GROWS FOR A&E CAMPAIGN
OUR campaign to highlight the abuse of the A&E department is gaining momentum.
More than 30 per cent of the 103,000 patients’ visit to the A&E department last year are estimated to have been unnecessary and are stretching the service to the limit.
This week Ealing North MP Steve Pound backed our campaign and wrote to us saying: “Praise to the Ealing Gazette for a first-class piece of community journalism in its report on Ealing Hospital's A&E department.
“A casualty department built to take 25,000 people a year is struggling with 100,000 patients annually, but the 30,000 who shouldn’t be there at all place a near impossible strain on the system.�
We’ll be continuing in the next two weeks to highlight this problem which is having a knock-on-effect on services across the hospital.
We’re approaching Valentines’ Day fast and don’t forget you can send your message online with the Gazette.
Messages of no more than 20 words will be placed on the website on February 14 – all you have to do is log on to the site any time before midday on Valentine’s Day and click on ‘have your say’.
The office changes to accommodate our new team of eight advertising staff is almost complete and it’s great to have them here.
Have a good weekend
Posted by sazam at February 9, 2007 4:57 PM