One major hospital serving 762,000 people in West Sussex is 'unacceptable'
PLANS to downgrade to just one major hospital in West Sussex were not even discussed with the man responsible for ensuring that people nationally have adequate accesss to accident and emergency services, it has been revealed.
Professor Sir George Alberti, national clinical director for Emergency Access, has told the House of Commons that one major hospital serving 762,000 people in the county is unacceptable.
He sayhs that 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