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Offline Bri Roberts

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« on: November 25, 2010, 10:39:09 pm »
Health board announce plans for £64m hospital upgrades  Heath board bosses want to spend £8m on upgrading accident and emergency at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd  

Plans to spend £64m improving three hospitals in north Wales have been approved.


Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is to spend £16m on updating facilities and reducing waiting times at accident and emergency at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor and Ysbyty Glan Clwyd near Rhyl.

it also plan to spend £48m developing Llandudno hospital.

The plans will need final approval from the assembly government.

The plans for Llandudno hospital include additional operating theatres for day surgery, a modernised outpatients department and a specialist centre for women's health with breast services and a fertility clinic.


Michael Williams, chair of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: "The numbers that are coming through A&E are considerably more than anticipated.

"People sit and wait far too long in some units.

"So the whole idea is to get them at least triaged early so that we can sort out the people who really need to be seen urgently from people who, perhaps, can sit and wait.

"If waiting time doesn't improve in A&E, then we've failed in what we want to achieve.

"At Wrexham Maelor Hospital our turnaround times are probably the best in Wales.

"That is not the situation at Glan Clwyd and at Ysbyty Gwynedd, and its no fault of the staff. The structure of the buildings, particularly at Glan Clwyd is unsatisfactory."

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Mr Williams also criticised politicians for causing "alarm" over rumoured hospital cuts.

Petitions containing 7,500 signatures against the closure of Alaw Ward cancer unit in Bangor and 11,000 opposing the downgrading of services at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd have been submitted to the health board.

He said no such plans existed at this stage.

The trust is conducting a review of services across north Wales.

The health board issued a statement earlier this month saying it has no power to close any service, and if there are any changes in a service, they will only happen after full consultation with staff and the public.
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Re: Llandudno Hospital - Good news ?
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2010, 08:04:57 am »
Let's hope so, its future has been uncertain for quite a while. Any significant investment would put paid to any closure speculation.


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Re: Llandudno Hospital - Good news ?
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2010, 08:26:07 am »
My one and only visit to Llandudno's A & E was to have a splinter, which had inserted itself down my fourth finger nail causing disproportionate pain, removed.  The chap who did it was very quick and efficient, although he had to slice away a chunk of the nail to get at the offending splinter, and the only part which concerned me slightly was that he asked me to check to see if it was all out...
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Re: Llandudno Hospital - Good news ?
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2010, 11:06:39 am »
I've been rushed into intensive care on 4 times as an emergency with heart problems so any improvements in the service will be welcomed.  I am just hoping that if I need emergency admission again I will last long enough in the ambulance to get to Glan Clwyd or Bangor!      :rage:

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Re: Llandudno Hospital - Good news ?
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2010, 10:12:11 pm »
From personal experience Yorkie if it happens again make sure you get taken to Bangor. I've nothing good to say about Glan Clwyd and as if to rub salt into the wound, the Bas***ds are still charge you for Car Parking
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Re: Llandudno Hospital - Good news ?
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2010, 12:09:57 am »
No charge for car parking at Glan Clwyd these days, but it is looking tired and dated with a very poor layout

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« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2010, 07:43:15 am »
From personal experience Yorkie if it happens again make sure you get taken to Bangor. I've nothing good to say about Glan Clwyd and as if to rub salt into the wound, the Bas***ds are still charge you for Car Parking

I've only ever had the best of treatment there but fortunately since my "cabbage" op a few years ago I have been fine.
(cabbage = coronary artey by-pass surgery)    Z**

Also we have a soft spot for the hospital as my Wife's Grandfather was the major influence in getting it built in the first place.

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« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2010, 11:06:23 am »
The main problem I've seen with YGC is that the nursing stations have to cover too wide an area  with lots of patient bays containing a small number of patients in each, no wonder the staff are rushed off their feet, there must be a better way of using the space

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Re: Llandudno Hospital - Good news ?
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2010, 09:24:59 pm »
I hope you never get ill over a week-end in YGC as the whole place comes to a grinding halt after 5 o’clock on a Friday and nothing gets done until Monday
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« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2010, 09:26:33 pm »
I hope you never get ill over a week-end in YGC as the whole place comes to a grinding halt after 5 o’clock on a Friday and nothing gets done until Monday
This is very true, I do not have a high opinion of the place.

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« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2010, 05:22:56 pm »
Good news for the hospital. I've got a lot of ambiguous memories of the old place:

having a very large and glowing carbuncle lanced without anaesthetic when I was about 8 :o;
several thumb x rays from serious hammer rash (clumsy sod!) :rage:;
penicillin injection in the buttocks after standing on a rusty nail ))*;
having a ring removed from my right middle finger after bouncing off the springboard at the lido and seeing the finger bent sideways; >:(
servicing the gas water heater in the post mortem room :puke2:
Mam working at the old isolation hospital;  $wales
and Mam being treated there for pancreatic cancer  %0%

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Re: Llandudno Hospital - Good news ?
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2010, 05:30:12 pm »
Micox, was the Isolation Hospital the one up the Llanfair T H road from Abergele?

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« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2010, 05:32:20 pm »
I think the worst thing about YGC is possibly its location - how on earth are you supposed to get there if you don't have access to a car? I realise it has to be in a central part of its catchment area but why not next to a major bus route and/or railway station? That's just common sense.

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« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2010, 05:53:39 pm »
No Dave, the one on the Gas Road (Maesdu Road) - latterly called the Annexe.
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Re: Llandudno Hospital - Good news ?
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2010, 06:02:14 pm »
I think the worst thing about YGC is possibly its location - how on earth are you supposed to get there if you don't have access to a car? I realise it has to be in a central part of its catchment area but why not next to a major bus route and/or railway station? That's just common sense.

It was built there, as you probably know by public donation.   The land was donated to the hospital and probably at the time it was not envisaged that it would grow to the size it has.  It replaced the old Cottage Hospital in Trinity Avenue (which became the Youth Centre) and such a large site was not available closer to the town.

If insufficient transport is available for the Hospital then we can always lobby Arriva and others.