Meeting tonight to discuss 'Royal Thames Valley Hospital'

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PROPOSALS to build a new ‘super hospital’ within 20 minutes of High Wycombe are set to be discussed at a public meeting tonight.

Dr Phillip Lee, Conservative MP for Bracknell, has produced a 66-page report which calls for a ‘Royal Thames Valley Hospital’ to be built at Junction 8/9 of the M4 motorway (see related links).

This would mean Wycombe patients travelling up to the Handy Cross roundabout, and then south along the A404 dual carriageway to the M4.

The invite to the Bracknell meeting says: “[Dr Lee] strongly believes that a broad strategy is required to design and organise services for the region so the very best care can be provided.

“The local infrastructure is presently not fit for purpose and therefore before any more monies are spent he believes that consideration of this project’s completion is important....

“Dr Lee appreciates that healthcare provision is an issue that is both extremely important and that it generates many different points of view. That is why he invites you to attend his public meeting to discuss his hospital vision.”

The meeting is at 7.30pm at Kerith Community Church, The Kerith Centre, on Church Road in Bracknell.

Comments(9)

Darren Hayday says...
12:33pm Tue 24 Jul 12

What's wrong with having a super hospital built in Wycombe?

demoness the second says...
12:38pm Tue 24 Jul 12

Darren Hayday wrote:
What's wrong with having a super hospital built in Wycombe?
Where?

Darren Hayday says...
1:05pm Tue 24 Jul 12

Anywhere in or around Wycombe - prehaps expand on the exsiting site. I'm sure that there is land that can be used, whereby access could be taken from the M40.

Plus ça change... says...
1:10pm Tue 24 Jul 12

demoness the second wrote:
Darren Hayday wrote:
What's wrong with having a super hospital built in Wycombe?
Where?
Booker...

Noooooooooo, just joking!!!

It's never really about where stuff is; it's about how you get us there.

Always has been, always will be.

tigeran says...
1:20pm Tue 24 Jul 12

"within 20 minutes of High Wycombe"

Yeah, by helicopter!!

gpn01 says...
1:55pm Tue 24 Jul 12

You can't build a new super hospital in High Wycombe until the existing one has closed.
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There'll then be uproar over the decreased level of care that's available, the growing local population, etc. etc.
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Then there will be a major project to build a new hospital.
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Just retaining and expanding the existing hospital doesn't provide enough of a "flagship" development

BOOKERite says...
5:13pm Tue 24 Jul 12

How about next to the new Handy Cross sports centre, much more use than a head office and food hall. And you wouldn't have far to go when you sustain a sports injury.
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The new hospital could be funded by selling the prime land the hospital is now on, perhaps to build a food hall and head office!

ill_bill says...
5:35pm Tue 24 Jul 12

The new super hospital will never happen. How will they sort out the PFI contract on the Wycombe Hospital building? It will destabilise Stoke Mandeville Hospital and could mean it fails leaving Aylesbury and N Bucks without a hospital. If Dr Lee can't even talk to the Bucks PCT about how the new hospital would fit with its planning it doesnt seem as if he has done HIS planning very well.

stevet123 says...
10:15am Wed 25 Jul 12

Plus ça change... wrote:
demoness the second wrote:
Darren Hayday wrote:
What's wrong with having a super hospital built in Wycombe?
Where?
Booker...

Noooooooooo, just joking!!!

It's never really about where stuff is; it's about how you get us there.

Always has been, always will be.
Well, let them build it where Wycombe Wanderers wanted to relocate Booker Airfield, room to erect a junction off the M40 for Emergancy services and public vehicles J 4A direct bus services from town centre, as Stoke Manderville no thought gone into access from people from high wycombe, Its these Tory Think tanks who think they know best when they know jack S

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