Just one major hospital serving 762,000 people in West Sussex is unacceptable
THE man in charge of ensuring that people nationally have adequate access to accident and emergency units was not even consulted about plans to downgrade to just one major hospital in West Sussex, it has emerged.
Professor Sir George Alberti, national clinical director for Emergency Access, has told the House of Commons that it would be unacceptable to have just one major hospital serving 762,000 people in West Sussex.
Professor Alberti expressed his view that MGH's should serve a population of approximately 300,000 and is to contact the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority and local PCTs to discuss why plans for such a reconfiguration were ever on the table.
For full story see West Sussex Gazette March 28