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Follow on Google News | Isle Of Wight Children At Risk Due To Inaccurate DataNHS Safe and Sustainable Review places IOW children in grave risk.
By: Helen Laverty The NHS Safe and Sustainable website states “Safe, sustainable and world class. Not ordinary, OK or just good enough. Children and young people who need surgery must have excellent care.” as the primary aim of the review. The following facts make a mockery of the above statement; • Isle of Wight data and statistics have been specifically excluded from consultation documentation, seemingly because we are separate from the mainland. • Travelling and retrieval times of patients on the Isle of Wight have been excluded from the safe and sustainable review’s source information (produced by KPMG), which has resulted in Southampton being put forward in only 1 of 4 options for the future (option B). • The review’s board OWN assessment ranks Southampton as the 2nd best of 11 such units, yet other units rated far lower down the scale appear to have been given an illogical preference and appear in all 4 options. • It is clear that key personnel and decision makers are not communicating effectively within this process. Crucial information and inaccuracies which have come to light since the start of this process are being blindly ignored. • According to the reviews own source information the Isle of Wight is a UK “hotspot” for Children’s Cardiac Referrals and Surgery making the closure of Southampton even more illogical. • The cost and logistics of travel for Island residents to either London or Bristol (options A, C and D) will effectively result in parents and patients having to face some of the toughest of times without the vital support network of friends and family around them. Present arrangements make this difficult at the best of times, the loss of the Southampton Unit will make it impossible. -MORE- As the parent of Nancy Laverty, age 2 ½ who was born at and is under the ongoing care of the excellent Southampton Unit, I demand and expect reconsideration and further fact finding be undertaken BEFORE the review board make ANY final decisions which may affect the quality of life for my child, other children and children yet to be born on The Isle of Wight. I question any decision based on inaccuracies and the apparent mismanagement of this public consultation process. Note to editors: 1 NHS Safe and Sustainable Review web address: http://www.specialisedservices.nhs.uk/ END End
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