Royal Marsden Super Hospital
For those NHS bureaucrats upset about the loss of their beloved Sutton Hospital CCH, I have some good news.
I hear that the Royal Marsden may be selling its Kensington site and moving all services to Sutton. This will require a large amount of the exisiting Sutton Hospital site.
I am personally in favour of this as long as it remains a specialist cancer hospital - which I think it probably will due to the nature of the bequests it receives. My worry is that some will see it as a way to bring in a CCH to replace St Helier A&E by the backdoor as an extended Foundation Trust. Most of that debate will be a Sutton debate, which will make it much more difficult to play off differnt coomunities as we saw with BHCH.
I am also pleased to report that Peter Geiringer of Sutton Conservatives supports an expansion of the Royal Marsden and I do not detect any opposition from the Lib Dems either, though that may be beacuse they are keeping their options open for the "backdoor option" above.
A number of questions:
1. Will the "rattle your jewellry" set in Kensington and Chelsea be supportive of floigging off the central London site. This may delay the project for a number of years?
2. What will happen to other services on the Sutton Hospital site including mental health beds? I think it is vital to retain part of the Sutton site for mental health purposes.
I will keep you informed on developments.
I hear that the Royal Marsden may be selling its Kensington site and moving all services to Sutton. This will require a large amount of the exisiting Sutton Hospital site.
I am personally in favour of this as long as it remains a specialist cancer hospital - which I think it probably will due to the nature of the bequests it receives. My worry is that some will see it as a way to bring in a CCH to replace St Helier A&E by the backdoor as an extended Foundation Trust. Most of that debate will be a Sutton debate, which will make it much more difficult to play off differnt coomunities as we saw with BHCH.
I am also pleased to report that Peter Geiringer of Sutton Conservatives supports an expansion of the Royal Marsden and I do not detect any opposition from the Lib Dems either, though that may be beacuse they are keeping their options open for the "backdoor option" above.
A number of questions:
1. Will the "rattle your jewellry" set in Kensington and Chelsea be supportive of floigging off the central London site. This may delay the project for a number of years?
2. What will happen to other services on the Sutton Hospital site including mental health beds? I think it is vital to retain part of the Sutton site for mental health purposes.
I will keep you informed on developments.
posted by Charlie Mansell at 7:21 pm
2 Comments:
Funnily enough I mentioned this when I sat on the Joint Health Scruitny Panel as a Merton rep, I remember Cllr Lynne Hack giving me a funny look on this issue and now it looks like it may be on the cards. How things have changed since the start of 2006
Too right they have.
Royal Marsden were no doubt quite happy to go along with the BHCH process as they got the Epsom and St Helier Trust to do all the early design work for them for free using the Princes Trust!
The more this process goes along the more one mus wonder how serious a proposition BHCH was in the first place.
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