You did it!
A petition that needed 10,000 signatures to ensure that the issue it would be debated at the Senedd hit the target last night following our one last push appeal.
With our area facing an ageing population that will need growing health care services in the future, Powys Teaching Health Board needs to be investing, and not cutting, our already meagre offering.
The health cuts are Powys-wide, but particularly impacting Welshpool where it is proposed to axe the beds, X-Ray facility and Minor Injury Unit. That leaves very little and many of us fear it is the slippery slope to closing the hospital completely.
This, we can simply NOT allow to happen.
The public consultation called Better Together has been launched by the health board so the next action we encourage our readers to take is to fill in the form and share your feelings.
Also, keep sharing the petition. The more names the better to show the depth of feeling against these ludicrous proposed cuts.
Here is what the petition is calling for:
“Closing all but 60 of our GP led community hospital beds in Powys, which has no general hospital or hospice, is not the way to provide care. Rural healthcare needs a radical rethink, not cuts.
“I call on the Senedd and the Health Minister to instigate a full inquiry and debate on rural healthcare provision and delivery and to ensure that there is no change in the number of beds, services, or hospitals in Powys before this is undertaken.
“We always need to plan for the future in health and social care. Prevention is better than a cure and we all want care closer to home, to live independently in our own homes and to get emergency and general hospital care when we need it.”
PICTURE: By From Above - Drone Photography
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