Dear Dame,
You never stop showing off about the thousands of daily views your blog gets.
If you are as potent as you attempt to suggest can you kindly have a word with the self important MP, Miss Buchan?
She is obviously too busy with her levelling up activity.
She needs to 'level up' with us constituents as to why we are all getting such inadequate service.
It is not good enough.
Just because she is a friend of Campbell she thinks she can do what she likes.
A very angry Resident
Felicity Buchan was vocal when she campaigned for Brexit. She was also vocal in her support for Liz Truss for Conservative leadership/PM. She responded fast and was full of praise for Matt Hancock when a rebuild of St Mary’s was announced in 2020, The government has now ditched its pledge to rebuild St Mary’s Hospital by 2030, Felicity Buchan should have challenged this terrible decision which is going to badly hit the health of many residents by now.
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ReplyDeleteSt Mary's is an old historic hospital. Services which are still provided in buildings of some age are not, in themselves, bad services as 10.16 implies. There are many modern buildings comprising the St Mary's Hospital estate today.
My late mother could barely walk with chest disease when she started attending for treatment at St Mary's in 1984. She had been having very poor medical care at another hospital. St Mary's Chest and Allergy Clinic did wonders for her. She became fully mobile when they successfully intervened and the last twenty years of her life were good. I have personally had excellent treatment at St Mary's. The buildings might be old but the treatment is no way inferior to that provided in a modern hospital like the Chelsea and Westminster.
The chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare Trust, Professor Tim Orchard, said: “If we waited until 2030 to start building works at St Mary’s, it would become impossible to continue to patch up our oldest facilities, many of which house key clinical services. As the provider of London’s busiest major trauma centre and host of the NHS’s largest biomedical research centre, that would be HUGELY DAMAGING FOR THE HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.” https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/news/trust-response-to-new-hospital-programme-announcement
DeleteThe hospital staff do their best. I have spent a lot of time at St M., sadly. Some of the buildings are simply not fit for purpose. For example the Mint Building and the Cardiac Assessment Unit in the dark corridors/tunnels under the Lindo Wing. Then there is the Western Eye Hospital……… Falling apart. They are not in Ms Buchan’s constituency but that is probably where her constituents would go in an emergency. Of course she doesn’t live in the constituency.
DeleteWhat is our useless MP doing about this and the problems with the Gordon? No need to reply, we are all only too well aware - nothing.
I have had cancer investigations in the Mint Wing at St Mary's - it was excellent.The ward was spotless, well decorated, and comfortable.
DeleteThe Western Eye Hospital is old but there again so is Moorfield's Eye Hospital. I know that Moorfields is moving to a new location near King's Cross. I fully understand why some are campaigning for a new St Mary's hospital - it is all about interests: professional medical ones and political ones.
I have been taken down the dark tunnels at St Mary's. I much preferred it to being wheeled in a hospital bed in to the lift at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with members of the public using the lift looking at me as if I were a sick dog. It is hard to believe that St Mary's through age is harming so patients. St Mary's is a well recognised centre of excellence. Emma Dent Coad is bound to cash in on this in the General Election Campaign. Typical of that one.
DeleteEnoch Powell, when he was Minister of Health, said that, "Everyone, Trade Unions, Patients and Politicians have a vested interest in denigrating the NHS' in order to obtain funds. Like others commenting here , I do not recognise St. Mary's, with its old buildings and cavernous tunnels, in the deleterious terms described by others. State of the Art Hospitals are always welcome but Architects' Dreams for New Hospitals often turn in to Patient Nightmares.
DeleteSt Mary's is not harming anyone. Yes, our current MP has been less than stellar on this matter.
DeleteHer predecessor was less than enthusiastic at challenging the TMO and the Council about its disastrous housing management practices which led to the tragedy at Grenfell Tower.
In the basement pharmacy at St Mary’s Hospital, senior pharmacist Michele Garwood has placed plastic trays beneath the ceiling in an attempt to protect her stock of medicines from regular flooding. Elsewhere, on Albert ward, one of five lavatories has been out of use for three months after a hole opened up in the floor, exposing it to the car park below, and rotted floor joists in patient bays, temporarily taped over, represent a constant trip hazard. We “still provide the best care we can” but some patients are so horrified by their surroundings that they discharge themselves, said matron Marta Calvo Hernandez.
DeleteDespite the evident dilapidation at St. Mary’s, where more than half the buildings are older than the NHS itself, it is not a priority in the government’s New Hospital Programme … The strategic case for the work was approved in 2021, but after five other hospitals were found to have deteriorating concrete roofs that posed a severe safety risk, St Mary’s was told it was no longer at the front of the queue.
Surveying his crumbling domain, chief executive Tim Orchard, who is also a consultant gastroenterologist, cannot hide his incredulity that so many other projects can be deemed more pressing than his own. “I would find it very difficult to imagine worse estate than this,” he said. Past disasters have included “a big problem with sewage coming out of the drains in our outpatient department” and “a very considerable electrical and flooding issue” in a relatively new part of the estate that meant “having to close down all elective work in one of the buildings for three weeks”, he added.
The St Mary’s site includes historic buildings such as converted stables, once used by the nearby Great Western Railway. But the charm escapes staff who must provide outpatient and day treatment from premises dating back to the Victorian era. Deirdra Orteu, a former nurse who is one of the leaders of the trust’s redevelopment programme, pointed out a ward that has been permanently closed due to a structural problem with its ceiling that is considered simply too expensive to repair.
NHS capital investment cuts leave England’s hospitals crumbling | Financial Times (17 August 2023) https://www.ft.com/content/eff98439-44ba-43a3-b9af-3ce796002c24
Hospital bosses will always claim their case for rebuilding is greater than another Hospital's case. I do not doubt that rebuilding work is required St Mary's. However, St Mary's is a flagship of clinical excellence despite the state of its estate.
DeleteSt Mary's is not the only hospital in England and Wales with buildings older than the NHS itself - a rather silly comment to say the least.
10.16 sounds like a typical Emma Dent Coad campaign comment.
ReplyDeleteFelicity Buchan hasn’t challenged a decision which is going to be ‘hugely damaging for the health and healthcare of hundreds of thousands of people’.
DeleteFelicity Buchan hasn’t challenged a decision which is going to be hugely damaging to the health and healthcare of Kensington residents!
Delete13:03 - so basically anyone that thinks this government have done an absolutely fucking shit job over the last 13 years and have dropped a bunch of promises is an EDC campaign supporter?
DeleteNo. The Government has done a shit job - granted.
DeleteThis government has done a sh*t job. I shall be voting Labour and hope that works are funds for St Mary's Hospital.
DeleteEDC is emotional, unfocused and factional. This approach does not serve Kensington well. Joe Powell is focused and disciplined.
The Royal Marsden Hospital in Fulham Road, Chelsea, is housed in buildings that pre-date the NHS in 1948. The same can be said about the Royal Brompton Hospital, Chelsea, and countless other hospitals in the UK. Slogans is all very fine but they will not secure resources for the rebuilding of St Mary's.
DeleteGet real: anyone campaigning for finite resources is going to say that their hospital is in the most dire need (even if they are gastroenterologist) and that it is hard to imagine any other hospital in the UK having a more pressing need for rebuilding.
Why do the Royal Family pay to go in to St Mary's for the delivery of their babies? I am surprised that the old building in which the Princess of Wales was confined did not rock at its foundations with all the pushing that is required to deliver a baby.
ReplyDeleteSt Marys' Hospital staff provide an excellent service despite the building falling around them...and the never ending politics that seems to occur whenever anyone discusses upgrading or rebuilding. It's time someone grasped this nettle, phase the build and just get on with it!
ReplyDeleteSt Mary's medical, nursing and technical staffs are outstanding. I feel very privileged to have been treated there. There is no point suggesting "they do their best" in dilapidated buildings in a feeble attempt to secure funds.
ReplyDeleteThe funds were secure. The strategic case for the work to St Mary’s was approved in 2021!
DeleteSince then the government has back tracked on its promise to rebuild St Mary’s by 2030.
Felicity Buchan should stand up for residents and challenge the deprioritisation of St Mary’s.
Coad will want to turn St.Mary's in to a political football for her own ends in the General Election Campaign. She will try saying that Felicity Buchan MP should have said this or done that about St Mary's. Coad can be criticised on so many levels for failing to do the right thing. This General Election is going to be filthy in Kensington and Coad will be on a sitcky socialist wicket and be straightened politically.
ReplyDelete22.12 does not have a clue about the rudimentary principles of social administration and economics. Decisions are never cast in stone over hospital rebuilding programmes until works begin.
ReplyDeleteFor ‘Remembering Enoch Powell 12 September 13:46’ presumably you are pleased Susan Hall (Conservative candidate for Mayor) has had her history on Twitter exposed and it includes endorsing Enoch Powell, Islamophobic tropes about Sadiq Khan, and supporting the lie that the 2020 American election was stolen from Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteI don't like racists including Susan Hall.
ReplyDeleteThis page has more than a touch of Dent Coad about it. Enoch Powell despite his racism had a brilliant mind so much so that the late Michael Foot refused to accept that he was a racist on account of his intelligence. Enoch Powell was a racist but not wrong about the NHS.
ReplyDeleteDoes one of the "many doctors" in EDC's family work at St Mary's hospital?
DeleteRing up and ask for Dr. Blott and see if he is there.
Delete17:25 is too funny! Most voters in N Westminster see Dent Code as a bad joke. But seriously, after years of having a decent MP in Karen Buck & now after boundary changes, the prospect of being lumbered with the complacent & useless Felicity Buchan thanks to Dent Code's selfish decision to stand against Joe Powell is very worrying.
DeleteEdc is more narcissistic than Meghan Markle.
DeleteI voted for Karen Buck when she was a Labour Councillor in Queen's Park Ward. She really went for Dame Shirley Porter over the Homes for Votes' saga. Good for you Karen.
DeleteEmma Dent Coad refused to go for the Tenant Mismanagement Organisation preferring to cosy up to the Tories - Sir Merrick Cockell and Maighread Condon Simmonds.
That's despicable.
DeletePowell was a realist: not a racist.
ReplyDeleteEvidently Powell was touring India with his very good friend, the head of the Indian Army, General Cariappa. They stopped at the Byculla Club,in Pune (sic),and the club said that the Indian gentleman,who was General Cariappa, couldn’t come in because they didn’t have anybody except white people here.
ReplyDeleteSo Enoch Powell said,’Take my baggage out of this club,I am going to stay with my friend General Cariappa’,and he did. In so many ways, Powell was right
You agree with Michael Foot that Powell was not a racist. Interesting
ReplyDeleteIt could be that Powell was nasty about West Indians but not racist about Indians just as Jeremy Corbyn is not racist towards people of colour but is virulently antisemitic.
I boarded the Cambridge train at King's Cross in the 1990s. The woman ticket collector was announcing to her colleagues," I tell you Enoch Powell is on that train;" and he was.
He was an authority on the bible too.
EDC is racist
ReplyDeleteCorbyn exonerated her. It took the Labour Party six years after her racist values came to light to shaft her for racism.
ReplyDeleteVery odd. The thread is just how awful is our MP, the Truss loving Buchan. It ends up, like most threads on the Hornet, by talking about EDC!
ReplyDeleteNot odd at all. Hornets cannot be controlled by the pals of Dent Coad. Hornets will stir up what they will.
DeleteDent put herself in the firing line on this page over her comments about St Mary's Hospital. This is why this page turned in to one about Dent.
Delete12.32 sounds as narcissistic EDC
DeleteLabour's first MP for Kensington will go down in Labour's history as a traitor for standing against Joe Powell
ReplyDelete12:32 If EDC doesn't want to get talked about, she does have the option of not standing in Kensington. Both Buchan & EDC are awful.
ReplyDeleteDent Coad and Buchan are both dreadful.
ReplyDeleteDent Coad is a turncoat and a traitor. She can dish the shit but she can't take it. Dent Coad wants Hornets to give her an easy ride back to Westminster but where is the good in doing that.
If Emma (Columbus, Borgia) Dent Coad can't stand the heat, she should stay out of the kitchen.
DeleteIt simply will not do for Dent Coad to complain that the focus of this page was supposed to be all about Felicity Buchan MP - but instead it has turned its focus to Dent Coad's disingenuous manoeuvrings.
Why should Hornets allow Dent Coad a "free kick" at a Tory MP which is what she, like all marxists, expects to be able to do in the righteous socialist cause.
Dent Coad needs to be shown up to be opportunistic, marxist, treacherous turncoat that she really is.
Buchan, like Dent Coad, can be shown up as having limited political acumen - although Buchan seems to be a much better and nicer person than her socialist contemporary.
12.32, 06.46 and 17.11
ReplyDeleteSounds like Emma Dent Coad is suffering from persecution mania.
Those who engage in political point scoring need to make sure that their own house is in order before doing so. Point scoring is often repaid with discreditable and embarrassing facts being mentioned about the Point Scorer.
ReplyDeleteEDC needs to think carefully before she attempts to claim the moral high ground on any political issue from now to polling day.
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