Time Line
Below is a time line of information regarding plans for Mid Ulster Hospital site, Save The Mid's response to the Transforming Your Care review can be found here and was the only response Specifically for Mid Ulster residents: http://savethemid.weebly.com/research-documents.html.
The Council are saying they did not agree to these changes, they did not disagree and facilitated a meeting to push through the loss of local services in local areas in Mid Ulster.
More surprising in the Councils response is that they quote Dr Flanagan in the clinical decision to shut A&E services at Mid Ulster Hospital. The very same reasons that council members and their political partners in the assembly rejected. Indeed Health Minister Edwin Poots is on record stating shutting the Mid Ulster A&E was a mistake. Was Dr Flanagan correct in his findings to shut Mid Ulster A&E, have these reasons already been proved lies? yes they have been found to be lies, and were lies before they were printed:
In response to the list of reasons cited to shut down Mid ulster A&E, Dr Flanagan received a letter from a senior Mid Ulster Hospital worker:
He concludes his letter to Dr Peter Flanagan:
‘Also I feel the inaccuracies in the papers produced by the trust for public consumption are unacceptable’
Magherafelt Council members once believed this, why now is CEO John McLoughlin of Magheraflet Council stating otherwise& why are no Councillors available to make a comment
Magherafelt Council and their political partners in Stormont have been made fully aware of health issues across the Mid Ulster from the research gained by Save The Mid, the choose not to act or respond to any of it. They chose not to take part in the Compton Health review to represent Magaherafelt residents
The Council are saying they did not agree to these changes, they did not disagree and facilitated a meeting to push through the loss of local services in local areas in Mid Ulster.
More surprising in the Councils response is that they quote Dr Flanagan in the clinical decision to shut A&E services at Mid Ulster Hospital. The very same reasons that council members and their political partners in the assembly rejected. Indeed Health Minister Edwin Poots is on record stating shutting the Mid Ulster A&E was a mistake. Was Dr Flanagan correct in his findings to shut Mid Ulster A&E, have these reasons already been proved lies? yes they have been found to be lies, and were lies before they were printed:
In response to the list of reasons cited to shut down Mid ulster A&E, Dr Flanagan received a letter from a senior Mid Ulster Hospital worker:
He concludes his letter to Dr Peter Flanagan:
‘Also I feel the inaccuracies in the papers produced by the trust for public consumption are unacceptable’
Magherafelt Council members once believed this, why now is CEO John McLoughlin of Magheraflet Council stating otherwise& why are no Councillors available to make a comment
Magherafelt Council and their political partners in Stormont have been made fully aware of health issues across the Mid Ulster from the research gained by Save The Mid, the choose not to act or respond to any of it. They chose not to take part in the Compton Health review to represent Magaherafelt residents
FOI by Save The Mid to gain information on the future of the Mid Ulster Hosptial, received June 2011 | |
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Leaked Proposed plans for wards 5 & 6 at Mid Ulster Hopsital which were agreed by the Trust in early 2011 | |
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Full list of all local services that will be lost to the lcoal commnity, created by the trust in early 2011, not objected to by magherafelt council | |
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36_emails_nhsct.pdf Emails from the NHSCT and developers. States through the develoment of these plans "Lyn Are we able to visit site and have a look around the existing (Rehab building Ward 5 +6) or is this still under wraps?" | |
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Magherafelt Council did not repsond to the biggest health review in the History of Northern Ireland. transforming-your-care-review-of-hsc-ni-final-report.pdf | |
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Minutes of Proceedings of a Special Meeting of Magherafelt Council held in the Council Chamber, 15 November 2011 at 7.00p,. Not available on Council web site, gained through a freedom of information | |
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At this stage instead of save the mid being invited to the community meeting at the day center in mid ulster hospital, save the mid were told a separate meeting was being arranged by the nhsct. despite this save the mid attended the meeting in the day center and voiced concerns regarding the information and format of the meeting in Jan 2012. This meeting was purly created to meet obligations to meet the public so that the business case the council did not object to could be passed
mid_ulster_hospital_put_up_for_rent.pdf | |
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At this stage Save The Mid meet Sean Donaghy CEO of NHSCT and discuss the £1 million business case from the Magherafelt Council Meeting. Sean Donaghy states it was Magherafelt Council that suggested using empty space at the Mid Ulster site for private sector health providers.
Also Save The Mid meet with Health Minister Edwin Poots regarding health issues across the NHSCT.
Also Save The Mid meet with Health Minister Edwin Poots regarding health issues across the NHSCT.
Feedback report showing those who attended the public meeting at Magherfelt Council buildings regarding Transforming Your Care, 17th May 2012. ( people attended from the alleged 1,000 invites | |
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Feedback report showing those who attended the public meeting at Magherfelt Council buildings regarding Transforming Your Care, 17th May 2012. ( people attended from the alleged 1,000 invites | |
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health_committee_response_save_the_mid_12th_jun_2012.pdf | |
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Save The Mid press release magherafelt council | |
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Population Plan for the future provision of health in the NHSCT. Note as Magherafelt Council was not involved in this process the plans reflect the view to remove inpatinets and day case from Mid Ulster Hospital. these are exisiting services within the Mid Ulster Hospital site. | |
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Press release issued by Magherafelt CEO John McLaughlin 18 July 2012
Magherafelt Council notes both with dismay and surprise the comments in the local press from Mr Hugh McCloy of the ‘Save the Mid’ Group.
The two main accusations leveled by Mr McCloy at the Council are that it has “secretly agreed to… fully downgrade the Mid Ulster Hospital to a Health Centre” and “The Council have given up on the Mid”. Both of these comments are inaccurate and groundless. A Council cannot make a secret agreement. For a Council agreement to have any standing in law it must be contained in the Council minutes which are of course public documents. No such minute is contained within the Council records as no such approval has been sought.
In relation to Mr McCloy’s second accusation – that “the Council have given up on the Mid” this again is inaccurate. Magherafelt Council has consistently, over a long period of time, argued for the retention of all the services at the Mid and have lobbied government Ministers and the Health Service Committee on numerous occasions to this effect. The decision to close the Mid Ulster Hospital Accident & Emergency was approved by the Health Minister in September 2009 after a sixteen week consultation period. During that consultation period many physicians at the Mid Ulster Hospital voiced their concern at the risks involved in continuing to provide a full accident & emergency service without proper medical cover. Dr Peter Flanagan, a senior medical director at the Northern Trust, stated “The main reasons we came to the decision (to close Accident & Emergency at the Mid Ulster Hospital) is the fact that we have lost a number of key medical staff. We simply do not have the resources to run four (Antrim, Causeway, Mid Ulster and Whiteabbey) accident & emergency departments and if we tried we could end up with a complete collapse of services which would be even worse”.
The Council continues to urge for the provision for a full complement of services, both inpatient and outpatient, at the Mid Ulster Hospital, together with an accident & emergency service which properly serves the needs of the local population. The Council continues to fight for the provision of both an Accident & Emergency and ambulance service at Antrim which is fit for purpose.
Notwithstanding the above, the Council recognises that there is now a lot of disused space at the Mid Ulster Hospital site. Presently there are twenty-two types of different services including: mental health and disability; children’s services; acute services; and PCCOPS (primary and community care for older people’s services) which includes over 200 staff at approximately fifteen different sites located as far apart as Moneymore, Ballymena and Antrim. The Trust has plans to centralise all of this provision at the Mid Ulster Hospital site. The Council believes that the centralisation of these services at a ‘one-stop-shop’ at the Magherafelt site will improve the access to all of these services for all of the people of the district.
The Council remains committed to both the retention and improvement of all existing services at the Mid.
Magherafelt Council notes both with dismay and surprise the comments in the local press from Mr Hugh McCloy of the ‘Save the Mid’ Group.
The two main accusations leveled by Mr McCloy at the Council are that it has “secretly agreed to… fully downgrade the Mid Ulster Hospital to a Health Centre” and “The Council have given up on the Mid”. Both of these comments are inaccurate and groundless. A Council cannot make a secret agreement. For a Council agreement to have any standing in law it must be contained in the Council minutes which are of course public documents. No such minute is contained within the Council records as no such approval has been sought.
In relation to Mr McCloy’s second accusation – that “the Council have given up on the Mid” this again is inaccurate. Magherafelt Council has consistently, over a long period of time, argued for the retention of all the services at the Mid and have lobbied government Ministers and the Health Service Committee on numerous occasions to this effect. The decision to close the Mid Ulster Hospital Accident & Emergency was approved by the Health Minister in September 2009 after a sixteen week consultation period. During that consultation period many physicians at the Mid Ulster Hospital voiced their concern at the risks involved in continuing to provide a full accident & emergency service without proper medical cover. Dr Peter Flanagan, a senior medical director at the Northern Trust, stated “The main reasons we came to the decision (to close Accident & Emergency at the Mid Ulster Hospital) is the fact that we have lost a number of key medical staff. We simply do not have the resources to run four (Antrim, Causeway, Mid Ulster and Whiteabbey) accident & emergency departments and if we tried we could end up with a complete collapse of services which would be even worse”.
The Council continues to urge for the provision for a full complement of services, both inpatient and outpatient, at the Mid Ulster Hospital, together with an accident & emergency service which properly serves the needs of the local population. The Council continues to fight for the provision of both an Accident & Emergency and ambulance service at Antrim which is fit for purpose.
Notwithstanding the above, the Council recognises that there is now a lot of disused space at the Mid Ulster Hospital site. Presently there are twenty-two types of different services including: mental health and disability; children’s services; acute services; and PCCOPS (primary and community care for older people’s services) which includes over 200 staff at approximately fifteen different sites located as far apart as Moneymore, Ballymena and Antrim. The Trust has plans to centralise all of this provision at the Mid Ulster Hospital site. The Council believes that the centralisation of these services at a ‘one-stop-shop’ at the Magherafelt site will improve the access to all of these services for all of the people of the district.
The Council remains committed to both the retention and improvement of all existing services at the Mid.