So, not one member of the PCT who made the misguided and badly thought-out decision to move acute maternity services from Eastbourne to Hastings is going to resign – why not?
Board chairman John Barnes said, "The Board sees no more reason for resignations now than it did last December when they took this decision." Why not?
Are these people whose decision was proved to be wrong, the right people to still be making decis
ions for us?
Are they going to be totally committed to making maintaining emergency maternity services in Hastings and Eastbourne successful when they were adamant that a single site was the answer?
Are these people who tried to rush this proposal through quickly as a 'done deal' and then tried to bury the opposition's proposal, Option 5, at every opportunity and employed bouncers to stop influential
people from asking questions at their meetings, to be trusted?
Mr Barnes remarks that, "the decision making process always allowed for the possibility of an appeal and we acknowledged the value of taking a second opinion" are laughable as was his praise of the "thoroughness of the PCT's work in putting forward the strategy."
At the meetings I went to it was evident the general public had been much more thorough in their research into the risks involved in this strategy than the PCT panel which was made to look foolish when trying to answer searching questions from the audience – many of whom included health professionals.
Liz Walke stood to lose her home had the appeal been unsuccessful and not enough money was raised to fight it.
She did this for the benefit and safety of the people of Eastbourne.
The PCT which is paid for and supposed to be working for the benefit and safety of the people of Eastbourne wasted £400,000 of its money in putting forward this ill-conceived strategy and has lost nothing.
Mrs F Dyer, Whitley Road, Eastbourne
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