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Bedford Hospital - A Fight on Our Hands to get Essential Children's Hospital Services Back to Bedford

In an email I have sent out this week, I have highlighted the threat hanging over vital children's services at Bedford Hospital on a permanent basis, and how the particular issue of the quality of supervision of junior doctors is being used to pursue a permanent downgrading of children's services at Bedford Hospital. I will do all I can alongside everyone who cares about protecting those services to stop that happening. Here's the email I sent:

25 Jul 2013
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Big High Street Showcase!

On Saturday 27th July, for the very first time, Bedford High Street will be taken over by a special summer festival showcasing the very best of Bedford Borough.

25 Jul 2013
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Bedford Hospital

Bedford Hospital Paediatrics - Update Following Emergency meeting

Yesterday saw the urgent meeting of the Bedford Borough Health and Wellbeing Board on the appalling loss of vital children's services at Bedford Hospital. the meeting shed a little more light on this awful situation, and also revealed two particular major issues of concern in addition to the shocking loss of services.

19 Jul 2013
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Bedford Hospital

Answers Needed Over the Shocking Loss of Children's Services at Bedford Hospital

Families across Bedford Borough are in shock this week following the announcement from Bedford Hospital of the removal of Children's A&E and overnight care from 1st August. This follows the withdrawal of junior doctors from the paediatrics department due to concerns over their supervision by senior consultants. It is appalling that this has been allowed to happen. The stark fact is that due to this failure of management by the hospital we are facing a period as a community in which parents cannot take an injured or seriously ill child to Bedford Hospital A&E.

17 Jul 2013
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