Shoebury health services dwindling

8:00am Monday 4th February 2013 in Local News By David Trayner

Harry Chandler outside Shoebury House Harry Chandler outside Shoebury House

HEALTHCARE services in Shoebury are dwindling with one centre set to close, another under threat and no local replacement in sight.

NHS South Essex has decided to close Shoebury House, which sees more than 160 patients a week, and move services five miles away to Westcliff.

The primary care trust also warned Shoebury Health Centre in Campfield Road, which houses two GP practices as well as various services, including counselling, midwifery and nutrition, is nearing the end of its life and new premises need to be found.

Residents have been waiting seven years for a new primary care centre in the area proposed, but plans have been put on hold indefinitely.

Independent councillor Mike Assenheim, who represents Shoebury Ward, said: “Shoebury has got the short straw. I’m sorry for those people affected.

“We have got to push for a new centre in Shoebury.”

The 66-odd patients a week who receive treatment for leg ulcers at Shoebury House, almost two-thirds of whom are from Shoebury, Thorpe Bay or Great Wakering, will now have to travel to the new North Road Primary Care Centre, set to open in Westcliff this month.

Roughly 90 patients who are treated for foot problems at the centre each week, 45 per cent of whom are from the east of the borough, will now be treated at the Valkyrie Road Primary Care Centre, which opened last Monday.

Its speech and language therapy service, which is used by about seven children a week, will move to Thorpedene Clinic in Delaware Road.

Harry Chandler, 76, of Leitrim Avenue, Shoebury, who is a member of patient representation group Southend LINk, said: “What we are concerned about is that people are able to get to the new centres.

“The Valkyrie Road centre has better conditions, but clearly I would rather see them in a primary care centre in Shoebury.”

Comments (5)

9:26am Mon 4 Feb 13

Displeased of Shoebury says...

Only one councillor speaking up for us. There are six councilors in the two wards covering Shoeburyness. Have not heard from the other five of them speak up. Mind you two of them sit on the inter council and they only concerns are Southend and the seafront.
Only one councillor speaking up for us. There are six councilors in the two wards covering Shoeburyness. Have not heard from the other five of them speak up. Mind you two of them sit on the inter council and they only concerns are Southend and the seafront. Displeased of Shoebury

9:36am Mon 4 Feb 13

jayman says...

just remember. Southend council pays a well connected bod £180,000 per year as temp head of adult commissioning. GP consortia are costing the tax payer billions to establish. Money in the NHS is wasted of inept, short sighted and yet sometimes 'well planed' decisions made by people who could afford and who would prefer a private healthcare system in our 'fought for' system of universal care.

Its all such a mess, it would surprise me if the mess was made for someone else to worry about.

the next plan from central government will be to means test NHS provision. This will drive a massive social wedge in the NHS. they will leave it for a few years as a soak period for the dissent and difference to take hold. Then the government will sell off the last remaining remnants of the NHS to private healthcare providers.

The closure of local NHS services is the first step at 'streamlining' The NHS prior to its later sale once the conditions for selling the NHS have been set in the public mind.

And back to my point at the top of the comment. Why would you pay someone at the top a colossal salary?

... because a high salary pays for a blind eye and a fraction of common ethics.
just remember. Southend council pays a well connected bod £180,000 per year as temp head of adult commissioning. GP consortia are costing the tax payer billions to establish. Money in the NHS is wasted of inept, short sighted and yet sometimes 'well planed' decisions made by people who could afford and who would prefer a private healthcare system in our 'fought for' system of universal care. Its all such a mess, it would surprise me if the mess was made for someone else to worry about. the next plan from central government will be to means test NHS provision. This will drive a massive social wedge in the NHS. they will leave it for a few years as a soak period for the dissent and difference to take hold. Then the government will sell off the last remaining remnants of the NHS to private healthcare providers. The closure of local NHS services is the first step at 'streamlining' The NHS prior to its later sale once the conditions for selling the NHS have been set in the public mind. And back to my point at the top of the comment. Why would you pay someone at the top a colossal salary? ... because a high salary pays for a blind eye and a fraction of common ethics. jayman

9:59am Mon 4 Feb 13

jayman says...

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/uk-england-lon
don-21269910

a major example of 'streamlining'.

Not for better patient outcomes, but for better investment/buyer potential.

expect to see a lot more 'streamlining' in the months and years to come.

and don't expect labour to save the day, politicians treat the NHS as a politically accountable 'noose' around their neck. Thatcher's grand unfinished plan is coming to fruition at the expense of low mortality rates and public health..
http://www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-england-lon don-21269910 a major example of 'streamlining'. Not for better patient outcomes, but for better investment/buyer potential. expect to see a lot more 'streamlining' in the months and years to come. and don't expect labour to save the day, politicians treat the NHS as a politically accountable 'noose' around their neck. Thatcher's grand unfinished plan is coming to fruition at the expense of low mortality rates and public health.. jayman

10:33am Mon 4 Feb 13

sosad 1 says...

i wish people would realise that all these cuts are tory driven policys the nhs is seen as the crown jewels ready for privatisation for there fat banker and city mates and i am not a ranting labour party member all the cuts this so called goverment have made, labour have said they wont be able to reverse sorry about spellings
i wish people would realise that all these cuts are tory driven policys the nhs is seen as the crown jewels ready for privatisation for there fat banker and city mates and i am not a ranting labour party member all the cuts this so called goverment have made, labour have said they wont be able to reverse sorry about spellings sosad 1

11:38am Mon 4 Feb 13

rude boy says...

Another thing going in shoebury we will have nothing here soon the elderly will have to travel further aswell. Nice 1!!!
Another thing going in shoebury we will have nothing here soon the elderly will have to travel further aswell. Nice 1!!! rude boy

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