Residents back retention of key services at Bishop Auckland General Hospital
A wide-ranging survey of local residents has shown strong support for retaining key services at Bishop Auckland General Hospital (BAGH)
The consultation, open to all residents in Bishop Auckland, was conducted by local MP Helen Goodman, and the results show a large majority (71%) of local residents would like to see the £43 million increase in the local healthcare budget spent on improving hospitals, and that Accident and Emergency (93%) is the service people would most like to retain at BAGH.
Helen said: “We have had an excellent response to this survey, which underlines how much local support there is for retaining high quality services at Bishop Auckland General.
The results support the point I have always made – that key services like Accident and Emergency must be kept at Bishop, and that it is unreasonable to expect people to travel to Darlington Memorial to use these services”.
Helen has written to the County Durham and Darlington Primary Care Trust, the North East Strategic Health Authority and the Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust to inform them of these results, and to emphasise how important these key services are to the local community.
A full copy of the results of this consultation can be found here
