Cross Border Services

Antoinette Sandbach speaking at the Welsh Conservative Party conference highlighted the importance of cross border access for Flintshire patients. Antoinette said "we have a two tier system in Wales – the difference of service levels between England and Wales which mean longer waiting times for Welsh patients…

and the difference between North and South Wales:

– two neurosurgery facilities in South Wales,

– and none in mid or North Wales.

Access to the best local healthcare services means for Flintshire patients being able to access the cardiology facilities at Broad Green – not those based in South Wales.

It means being able to access the neurosurgery facilities at Walton Hospital not those based at Swansea or Cardiff.

I welcome the children’s hospital in Cardiff – but Flintshire and North Wales parents want their children to be able to be treated close to family and friends at Alder Hay NOT Cardiff. The Roman diarist Seneca recognised this problem in the 1st Century when he wrote – “It is medicine not scenery for which a sick man must go searching”

North Wales is sending a loud and clear message to Labour’s Assembly Government.

We have had enough of our voice not being heard –

we have had enough of being told what to do and how to do it.

We have had enough of dither, and u turns, interference and micromanagement.

It is time to give the clinical decisions back to the Doctors and Consultants."