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MP
optimistic about A&E services
Mr Selbie confirmed to the MP that the Trust wants A&E, elective surgery and acute medicine to remain as now at Haywards Heath. As far as maternity services are concerned, Mr Selbie suggested that in the short term, it was perfectly possible to continue the present arrangements at the PRH, but he suggested it would be necessary to have a higher number of births coming through the hospital if the facility was to be safe in the medium and long term. Norman Baker says: “I hugely welcome the approach being taken by Duncan Selbie and the Trust he leads. They recognise, as do the many campaigners fighting to save the Princess Royal, that our health services locally are enhanced if the hospital continues to deliver virtually the full range services presently available at the PRH. In essence, the Royal Sussex and the PRH complement each other. “I now call on John Wilderspin and the West Sussex PCT to accept that their plans to downgrade the PRH have no support from the public, no support from local elected MPs and councillors, no support from local GPs, and the bit of the NHS that runs the hospital makes the point that the PRH is not an annex of Brighton, but a fully integrated part of the Trust, which sees itself as running one hospital from two sites. It is now time for the PCT to withdraw their unwise and damaging proposals and accept the will of the people and the NHS professionals.”
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