Your local Accident and Emergency Unit being shut down?
Don’t worry – your Welsh Labour Government has got an app for that!
As queues of ambulances were building outside Welsh
Hospitals this week and non-emergency operations were being cancelled as staff
were diverted elsewhere, did the Welsh Government pause to re-consider their
plans to shut and downgrade Accident & Emergency services across Wales? No.
Instead they’ve told us not to worry because they’ve got a free phone app for
us to download!
On the Welsh Government’s website it says: “The free to download Choose Well
application provides advice on which service to use when ill or injured and
details of how to find them.” http://wales.gov.uk/newsroom/healthandsocialcare/2013/130313ae/?lang=en
Great but if the
Welsh Government’s plans go through, finding the service you need will be
difficult; they intend to close all specialist neo-natal care in North Wales, forcing
people to travel to the Wirral and to have only 4, or 5 at most, A&E units
for the whole of South Wales.
The people of
Wales do need to choose well on the NHS. We need to choose never to trust
Labour on our health services again. Instead we need to unite our different
campaigns and fight all NHS cuts in Wales and build a political alternative,
TUSC.
