“Absolutely delighted,” was the reaction by Gloucester MP Richard Graham to the news that the Gloucestershire NHS Hospitals Trust has been awarded £40m of additional investment by NHS England to modernise and improve facilities at both the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and the Cheltenham General
Despite the intense winter, our Gloucestershire Royal Hospital was ranked 15th out of 137 hospitals in January for their A&E performance. The Health Secretary agreed that this is thanks to the great work of the staff there.
There is currently no limit on legal costs claimed by lawyers in NHS cases of clinical negligence. These reimburse patients and families who’ve suffered from medical mistakes, but frankly too often lawyers have been the major beneficiaries.
The Department of Health has published a clear set of principles to ensure that local parking charges are transparent and that local staff/visitors and their needs are taken into account (see:
I fully respect nurses and the work that they do. I volunteer every year with our GRH to learn more about the pressures different people in our hospital face, and NHS Glos Nurses have saved the lives of four generations of my family – so I do value their care.
Richard Graham MP says the c£1 million awarded to Gloucestershire Hospitals by the Department of Health will help ease the pressure on emergency departments before next winter.
City MP Richard Graham said that planning permission given yesterday for the new GP surgery in Kingsway was the ‘last planning hurdle, successfully jumped’ for Gloucester’s largest surgery and ‘will benefit every resident of Quedgeley’.
