They actually listened and kept the unit in Aberdeen which feels surreal because I was honestly expecting another round of bureaucratic nonsense. I am just so relieved that the north east finally gets the trauma care we deserve after all this back and forth (though we still need to keep …
June 22, 2016
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The SNP Scottish Government announced in April 2014 that Aberdeen Royal Infirmary would be one of four major trauma centres in Scotland. They have now gone back on that decision, and are consulting on a two-centre model based on Edinburgh and Glasgow. We the undersigned agree with Scottish Labour that ARI must be one of Scotland’s major trauma centres to guarantee that it will remain at the cutting edge of modern medicine.
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March 29, 2016
I just looked at the count and we are just under a thousand names so could everyone please grab their phones and text a link to this to a few people? It feels like we are right there and honestly I just cannot believe they think they can ignore us if we keep pushing like this.
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March 23, 2016
I just checked the counter and it is wobbling right near that first hundred mark so let's just shove it over the edge before the board meeting happens. My coffee is already cold but I am too distracted by the thought of them pushing us aside to care because we really need the folks in charge to see a big round number when they open this page today.
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It's an awfully long way to Glasgow or Edinburgh from many parts of the North East, in fact ARI is even quite a distance for more rural areas, and so not to have a major trauma centre that services the North East could potentially put lives at risk.
As a senior consultant surgeon who treats acute trauma it does not make clinical sense and does not seem reasonable to disadvantage the trauma care of 25% of Scotland's population by having only 2 major trauma centres in the central belt for Scotland.
Having experienced superb and rapid service from casualty at ARI a few years ago, when I fell on ice and ruptured knee ligaments, I am horrified to think what would have happened had the trauma centre not been available at that time. Don't close it!
Scotland does not mean only the Central Belt. It stretches from Shetland to the Borders. We need trauma centres strategically placed throughout the country especially in the north east to cover any emergencies on oil rigs based in the North Sea.
Pretty ridiculous. Already causing major problems in rural areas because of earlier closures and does NOT save money because of all the ambulance and air ambulance usage required to support this model. Sort it out before it starts costing lives.
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Most important that the north-east have it's own Trauma Centre based in Aberdeen, not only for the patients but relatives too have to be considered.
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They actually listened and kept the unit in Aberdeen which feels surreal because I was honestly expecting another round of bureaucratic nonsense. I am just so relieved that the north east finally gets the trauma care we deserve after all this back and forth (though we still need to keep …
June 22, 2016
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The SNP Scottish Government announced in April 2014 that Aberdeen Royal Infirmary would be one of four major trauma centres in Scotland. They have now gone back on that decision, and are consulting on a two-centre model based on Edinburgh and Glasgow. We the undersigned agree with Scottish Labour that ARI must be one of Scotland’s major trauma centres to guarantee that it will remain at the cutting edge of modern medicine.
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Reached 2,500 supporters
April 8, 2016
Reached 1,000 supporters
March 30, 2016
March 29, 2016
I just looked at the count and we are just under a thousand names so could everyone please grab their phones and text a link to this to a few people? It feels like we are right there and honestly I just cannot believe they think they can ignore us if we keep pushing like this.
Reached 100 supporters
March 26, 2016
March 23, 2016
I just checked the counter and it is wobbling right near that first hundred mark so let's just shove it over the edge before the board meeting happens. My coffee is already cold but I am too distracted by the thought of them pushing us aside to care because we really need the folks in charge to see a big round number when they open this page today.
1,092 Comments
It is unrealistic to make all in need of a Trauma Unit from Aberdeen and the rest of the North East as far as Orkney and Shetland, to go to Glasgow /Edinburgh it is too far. How many dangerously ill people would survive that journey and the time it takes.
It's an awfully long way to Glasgow or Edinburgh from many parts of the North East, in fact ARI is even quite a distance for more rural areas, and so not to have a major trauma centre that services the North East could potentially put lives at risk.
As a senior consultant surgeon who treats acute trauma it does not make clinical sense and does not seem reasonable to disadvantage the trauma care of 25% of Scotland's population by having only 2 major trauma centres in the central belt for Scotland.
Having experienced superb and rapid service from casualty at ARI a few years ago, when I fell on ice and ruptured knee ligaments, I am horrified to think what would have happened had the trauma centre not been available at that time. Don't close it!
Scotland does not mean only the Central Belt. It stretches from Shetland to the Borders. We need trauma centres strategically placed throughout the country especially in the north east to cover any emergencies on oil rigs based in the North Sea.
Pretty ridiculous. Already causing major problems in rural areas because of earlier closures and does NOT save money because of all the ambulance and air ambulance usage required to support this model. Sort it out before it starts costing lives.
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Most important that the north-east have it's own Trauma Centre based in Aberdeen, not only for the patients but relatives too have to be considered.
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It is unrealistic to make all in need of a Trauma Unit from Aberdeen and the rest of the North East as far as Orkney and Shetland, to go to Glasgow /Edinburgh it is too far. How many dangerously ill people would survive that journey and the time it takes.