Local MP Graham Stuart is urging residents to have their say over plans to shake up how heath care is administered in the area.
East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group are currently holding consultation to decide which Minor Injury Units they will close as they look stream line services in the area.
Beverley, Driffield, Bridlington, Hornsea, Withernsea and Goole are all under threat however it remains highly unlikely that Beverley will be impacted by any shake up.
Graham, who has helped to lead opposition to the plans over the last twelve months, has now been joined by local GPs in warning that they will leave people in Holderness struggling to access urgent care facilities and in calling for the CCG to think again.
In a statement Mr. Stuart said;
“Time is running out for people to tell East Riding CCG that they want urgent care facilities to remain open in Holderness and that they don’t want to have to travel miles and miles to access a nurse when they need one.”
“Rather than closing services the CCG should be staffing existing ones properly and providing healthcare at the point of need.”
“The consultation closes on 17 January and I hope by that time thousands of East Riding residents will have taken ten minutes to protect our local health services.”
“With a rising NHS budget there is no excuse for the CCG reducing the level of cover available in more remote rural areas.”
Some groups have dismissed the increase in spending, Kings Fund an independent charity working to improve the NHS say that between 2009/10 and 2020/21, spending on the NHS in England will rise by nearly £35 billion in cash terms – an increase of 35 per cent.
However they are quick to point out that much of this increase will be swallowed up by rising prices and inflation, leaving a real increase of just £11 billion. A 10pc rise over eleven years; equivalent to an average annual increase of just 0.9pc.
In December a protest arranged outside East Riding Community Hospital turned ugly when the local Labour Groups high jacked proceedings as they expressed their concerns over the future of the NHS under a Conservative led government.
