St Albans City Hospital

Entries Tagged as 'St Albans City Hospital'

Truly depressing health meeting

March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · SOS Herts NHS, Sandy's blog

I found tonight’s meeting in St Albans Town Hall to question the Primary Care Trust management over the cancelled St Albans Urgent Care Centre to be truly depressing. Full marks to Anne Main for organising it at such short notice. We were told that Anne Walker, chief executive of the PCT, was out of the [...]

Urgent Care Centre decision a stab in the front for local people

March 26th, 2010 · No Comments · SOS Herts NHS, Sandy's blog

Yesterday’s suddenly announced decision by the PCT that they are not going to proceed with plans for the Urgent Care Centre on the St Albans City Hospital site is a stab in the front for local residents.
It was only a few days ago that I blogged about the closure of A&E at Hemel Hempstead and [...]

Fascinating feedback on local NHS

March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · SOS Herts NHS, Sandy's blog

I am getting a lot of letters and e-mails on local residents’ perceptions of local NHS services following my invitation to people to write about their experiences. They show a fascinating range of opinion, some rating our local health services as very good, some as not so good, all of course coming from the same [...]

All roads lead to Hemel – or do they?

March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

Once upon a time St Albans had an A&E. Then the previous Conservative government broke their promise and closed it. So the slightly surreal sign pointing to Hemel was put up at the exit from St Albans hospital in order that the injured should know which way to turn – left down the hill to [...]

“The NHS has left me” – local resident

January 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · SOS Herts NHS, Sandy's blog

Issues round local NHS services are constantly raised on the doorstep and in letters to me. Of course people recognise there has been investment. But the lady who told me ‘The NHS has left me’ summed up a wide sense of loss as the delivery of NHS services becomes more distant for local people.
There have [...]

What does a body lying undiscovered for three days tell us about Watford Hospital?

May 10th, 2009 · No Comments · SOS Herts NHS, Sandy's blog

It is perfectly disgusting that a young man’s body could remain undiscovered for three days in Watford Hospital. This is of course the main acute hospital for everyone in St Albans after the government closed down most of the departments at St Albans City Hospital and then reneged on its promise to build a [...]

Sandy 4 St Albans

Sandy Walkington campaigns with the Liberal Democrats across St Albans