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www.clitherdetodayxo.uk Bells ceilebrated YOUR LAST CHANCEJO HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT THE HEALTH SERVICES IN EAST LANCS-
PUBLIC CONSULTATION RESPONSE FORM Please use the form below to help us reach a decision on the best way forward for ,East Lan
believe would best serve your health needs. The consultation closes on the lOth July 2 0 0 6 . Please tick one box only In each question and use the comments boxes prpvided.
HEADLINES AT A GLANCE Copies of the consultation documents are also available on the website (details below) or by telephoning 0 1 254 2 9 3 8 5 5
Both Service Models propose the following; • .Separate most emergency inpatient care from most planned/elective inpatient care • • Separate minor urgent care from major emergency care and establish more sites for minor urgent care provision • Deiiver more of the care for patients with Long Term Conditions outside the hospital setting
• Continue to provide a fuli range of outpatient clinics, diagnostic facilities and day case services at both Burnley General Hospital and Queen's Park Hospital and utilise our community hospitals
• Offer GPs a rapid access consultant clinic for patients who do not require admission immediateiy yet cannot wait for an appointment as an outpatient
• Offer more choice to expectant mothers with low risk of complications at birth, by estabiishing birthing centres in locai communities, aiongside the options of home deiiveries and hospital deliveries. ,
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• Both Service Models propose a major change to how we deliver consultant led obstetrics and neonatal intensive care. Service Model A proposes Burnley as the location whilst Service Model B proposes Blackburn as the location. - -
SERVICE MODELS A & B Service Model A
Centre for all emergency inpatient care for East Lancashire with exception of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatal Intensive Care Services*
Midwife-led birthing service
Emergency Department focusing on severe injury and severe illness - ie minority of patients
24/7 Urgent Care Centre for minor injuries and illnesses - ie most patients
Day Case Surgery, Outpatient procedures, full range of diagnostic tests
All inpatient children's care Paediatric Observation and Assessment Unit (short stay) - open 24/7
Primary care rapid response service
Proposals for our main hospital sites - at a glance; Queen's Park Hospital (QPH), Blackburn Burnley General Hospital (BGH), Burnley
Centre for most planned inpatient services for East Lancashire. Also centre for consultant-based inpatient Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatal Intensive Care Services*
High dependency beds available - Could become intensive care beds if necessary. Seriously ill or injured patients transferred to QPH by ambulance** - ie a very small number
24/7 Urgent Care Centre for minor injuries and illnesses - ie most patients
Day Case Surgery, Outpatient procedures, full range of diagnostic tests
Paediatric Observation and Assessment Unit (short stay) open during the day time Primary care rapid response service
Let us have your views — .............................................................................. - — ................................................... ....................................................................
Question 1 Do you agree with what we are aiming to achieve? Comments
Question 2 Which Service Model do you support? Comments
• Yes n Service Model A D
Question 3 Are there any Service Models or variations th a t we have not considered? Comments
Please te a r off this response slip and post in an envelope (no stamp needed).
Send to: FREEPOST RLZU - XHBG - S Y YK , Hyndburn & Ribble Valley PCT, Haywood Road, ACCRINGTON BBS a a c Responses may also be made by email:
meetingpatientsneeds@hrvpct.nhs.uk online:
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No d] No Strong View E H Service Model B CH Yes EH No EH No Strong View E H
Proposals for our main hospital sites - at a glance Queen's Park Hospital (QPH), Blackburn Burnley General Hospital (BGH), Burnley
Service Model B
Centre for all emergency inpatient care for East Lancashire including Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatal Intensive Care Services*
Emergency Department focusing on severe injury and severe illness - ie minority of patients
24/7 Urgent Care Centre for minor injuries and illnesses - ie most patients
Day Case Surgery, Outpatient procedures, full range of diagnostic tests
All inpatient children's care Paediatric Observation and Assessment Unit (short stay) - open 24/7
Primary care rapid response service
Centre for most planned services for East Lancashire. Midwife-led birthing service
High dependency beds available - Could become intensive care beds if necessary. Seriously ill or injured patients transferred to QPH by ambulance** - ie a very small number
24/7 Urgent Care Centre for minor injuries and illnesses - ie most patients
Day Case Surgery, Outpatient procedures, full range of diagnostic tests
Paediatric Observation and Assessment Unit (short stay) open during the day time
Primary care rapid response service
♦Subject to Cumbria and Lancashire PCTs' Neonatal Network Review * *T h e Lancashire Ambulance Service is confident that it will be able to maintain response times with additional investment in two more ambulances - the impact of having a third additinal ambulance is currently being reviewed
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Dr McKinlay’s rural casebook
by Natalie Cox
ON T-aesday, Dr David McKinlay’s casebook will close for the last time. After more th an three decades a t
Clitheroe’s Pendleside Practice the respect ed GP will hold his last surgery. Brought up in Newcastle-on-Tyne in an
old fashioned GP’s house, Dr McKinlay decided to follow in his father’s footsteps, studying locally in medicine at a time when GP training was new and voluntary. He came to Clitheroe in 1973 initially
working at Colbome House, just two years before the health centre opened. For Dr McKinlay the timing of his move to the Valley was just right as he had an avid interest in an academic career and had studied the design of health centres. Although the centre was already being
planned when Dr McKinlay arrived, he became involved in many committees charged with designing the building. The rural nature of the area it served meant the interior design of the centre could deviate from Government-designated standard size treatment rooms. ■ Explained Dr McKinlay: “The rural
nature of the area and its geographic loca tion meant we always did a lot of casualty work. We fought to get rooms three or four times bigger than the standard size.” Working for a health centre he described
as “pioneering” and a “vanguard”. Dr McKinlay was instrumental in introducing new technology enabling it to become one of the first centres in the country to have an EGG machine with a telephone link to a computer in Wythenshaw. Said Dr McKinlay: “I have seen a lot of
exciting advancements. This has always been a pioneering practice due to the posi tive attitude of partners and that is what attracted me to come. We pioneered the use of blood pressure machines which were common in hospitals, but not in GP prac tices and in 1982 we were one of the first to introduce a computer system at a time when the machines were the size of a desk.” Another innovation saw Dr McKinlay
introduce a baby clinic at Colbome House and during his career the married father-of- three helped battle to save Clitheroe Hos pital and Bramley Meade and, along with colleagues used budget savings to purchase X-ray facilities for the community hospi tal. The subsequent closure of the Valley’s maternity home meant Dr McKinlay was just unable to fulfil a GP’s milestone of delivering the baby of a baby he had deliv ered.
Aware that East Lancashire was suffer ing from a lack of GPs and with his interest
vicar’s silver jubilee THE bells of Whalley Parish Church rang out on Saturday afternoon in celebration of the ordination to the priesthood 25 years ago of the vicar, the Rev. Chris Sterry, pictured. This evening, at 7-30 p.m., there
will be sung eucharist with the Octavius Singers, conducted by the Rt Rev. Alan Chesters, who was Bishop of Blackburn when Mr Ster ry first came to Whalley. This will be followed by a glass of wine. Tomorrow, there will be commun
ion in the Abbey chapel at 9-15 a.m., while at 7-30 p.m. the vicar will give a guided tour of the chancel in the church.
Clitheroe Advertiser &Times, Thursday, June 29th, 2006 r 13- Breakfast launch •
A REGULAR networking club for businesses in the Ribble Valley is to be launched today and around 20 businesses have already committed to joining. The breakfast meetings, which
are run by BNI, an international organisation with more than 500^ groups across the country, will take place every Thursday at 7 a.m. at The Clarion Hotel on Whalley Road, in Billington. The companies already involved
in the organisation include Houldsworths Solicitors, Cummins Mellor Recruitment, Copycat Web and Base Systems. The meetings are held weekly
between 7 a.m. and 8-30 a.m. and take place over a light breakfast.
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in education. Dr McKinlay set up a voca tional training scheme which has since gone from strength to strength. He went on to become an associate adviser in the region, then deputy adviser and in 1997 he became the Director of Post Graduate GP Educa tion, insisting when he took the post on keeping a surgery in Clitheroe once a week. Dr McKinlay now organises training for
the whole of the North West, from Stock- port to Kendal and co-wrote an influential booklet entitled “The Gardener’s Guide - grow and keep your own GPs”. His work to improve the training of hos
pital doctors was rewarded in 2000 when he received the President’s Medal from the Royal College of General Practioners and he was also made an honorary member of the Royal College of Physicians. Talking about his job. Dr McKiiilay
said: “I have had an exciting and interest ing life. I believe being a GP is the best job in the world. It has been very rewarding and if I was starting out now I would do it all again.” Deciding to retire was a difficult decision
for Dr McKinlay, but he is already plan ning for the future. With his wife, Gillian, he hopes to make more frequent visits to his property in Normandy and he also hopes to finish cataloguing the 5,000 books he owns. However, before he finishes. Dr McKin
lay has one more task to complete. He has been called to give evidence to a House of Commons Select Committee, an interest ing final twist to a fulfilling career.
Club needs volunteer driver
A VOLUNTEER minibus driver is urgent ly needed so that those attending the Phys ically Handicapped and Able Bodied (PHAB) Club in Billington cap take part in outings. Until recently the club had two drivers, but they have now had to drop out because of family commitments. Trips are occasional, with the driver
being provided with a small donation, a ticket to any event and a meal if desired. The coach, generally a 15-seater, will be
already organised in advance. Anyone able to help is asked to contact either Mary Jackson on 01254 822125 or the organiser and treasurer Gillian Unwin on 01254 822097. The club has about 70 members who meet on two Wednesdays each month at Hodgefield sheltered accommodation, behind the bus stop on the main road. On July 23rd there will be a garden party
and barbecue, for which Mary and Gillian are now taking names.
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