Petition in Support of City Hospital

The petition

The hospital management of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust are currently planning the following change in services at City Hospital:

1. Moving Inpatient Emergency General and Trauma Surgery from City Hospital to Sandwell Hospital.

2. Moving overnight-stay Children’s Beds from City Hospital to Sandwell Hospital and only offering a 12 hour Children’s Assessment Unit at City Hospital


Why should we be concerned?

City Hospital’s Emergency Department, the nearest to the City Centre, sees over 100,000 referrals per year with more stabbings and shootings than any other hospital in the Midlands and probably in the UK.

City Hospital sees almost twice as many emergency surgery patients as Sandwell Hospital.

These two facts mean that moving Emergency General and Trauma Surgery from City Hospital to Sandwell Hospital makes no sense!

Moving these services will also affect the training of the doctors and the reputation of City Hospital, making it less likely to be able to attract the best staff in the future.

This will mean a second-rate service for the people of West Birmingham.

City Hospital currently sees any child that is brought to the hospital, whether by the family (to the emergency department) or because they have been referred by a general practitioner (GP). If the hospital management decide not to have children’s doctors (paediatricians) at City Hospital 24 hours a day, such children will need to be transferred to Sandwell Hospital for assessment.

This will mean a second-rate service for the children of West Birmingham.

Please sign this petition if you agree with the following:

· I oppose moving beds for Emergency Surgical Patients and Emergency Trauma Patients from City Hospital to Sandwell Hospital.

· I support a 24 hour Surgical Assessment Unit at City Hospital as proposed by the surgeons and A&E doctors at City Hospital.

· I oppose moving Children’s beds from City Hospital to Sandwell Hospital.


· I support a Children’s Assessment Unit that remains open 24 hours a day, at City Hospital.

If you also wish to join the City Hospital Supporters Group there please indicate by answering the question at the end (optional).

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