How important is Ashford & St. Peter’s NHS Trust to our community?
Trust Catchment Area The Trust as a whole provides acute hospital services to a large and diverse population, with a catchment of around 450,000 stretching from West Hounslow to Woking across the Boroughs of:
o Hounslow
o Spelthorne
o Elmbridge
o Runnymede
o Woking
Although north west Surrey is a relatively affluent part of the country there are, nonetheless, pockets of deprivation with higher health and social needs within the Trust’s catchment area. The catchment population also has a higher proportion of older people with increased health needs, longer average stays in hospital and a greater need for social and community care. For certain specialist services, such as Orthopaedics and Neonatal Intensive Care, the Trust provides services to a much more extensive catchment population. Can we afford to reduce the facilities at Ashford & St. Peter’s?
- Posted by not either but ... on 22/11/2006.
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