Being sent on a trek for my hospital appointment
CAN someone please explain to me why merging Calderdale and Huddersfield hospitals is an advantage?
If either had a speciality then of course it would be good to take advantage of this but I don’t know of any.
I do hear of various treatments being nudged to Calderdale (maternity) without any meaningful consultation.
My friend and I, living on the same street, within a five minute walk of HRI have this week been given appointments at Calderdale Royal. I mean surely every hospital offers X-Ray services? If not then they are pretty basic hospitals. I am a pensioner who no longer drives but have a bus pass.
I can’t use this before 9.30am. Instead of taking the five minute walk at 8.45am to my 9.05am appointment I have had to book a taxi which I’m sure won’t be cheap!
The controller said due to traffic at this time it would be sensible to pick me up at 8am to be sure of being there at my appointment time.
Why can’t someone actually look at issues being experienced by users of the services and apply common sense! If you live close to HRI then surely appointments should be booked there?
For those who live at a distance from HRI (Kirkburton and further afield) it must be a nightmare for them to get to appointments at HRI and worse to get to Calderdale.
Am I daft or should people who decide such things actually think about the users of their services?
Just deal with it!
I agree wholeheartedly with Geoff Rollinson who is heartily fed up with letters from “Boris-bashing, remoaning left whingers” getting space in your paper.
He says, in essence, democracy is our way of conducting our affairs in the UK so why are Mr Dorril and his like constantly beefing when things go against their views? As Mr Rollinson says “...... get used to it”.
Why is the left so devoid of tolerance and humour?
Reading our minds?
IN addition to
the uncomfortable surprise of a female Kirklees councillor having access to both my subjective ideas and the unrecorded opinions of thousands of other readers, I am surprised northern business folk who have scraped through a Covid year have access to sufficient investment funds that will afford major works on Huddersfield’s currently unspoilt historic hill top.
Huddersfield citizens aren’t subsidising the Thandi’s modernist, commercial upheaval, are they?