My Friday visits in the constituency have resumed after the Christmas and New Year break, and I was busy in and around North Weald, Hastingwood, Ingatestone and Brentwood on Friday last week.St Clare Hospice in Hastingwood is just outside my constituency but provides excellent end of life care and s
The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) has been in touch to ask us all to think carefully about using 999 while the health system is experiencing a huge spike in demand. The Trust moved to the highest escalation alert level on New Year’s Eve, in response to high demand across t
An East of England Ambulance Service Community First Responder based in Brentwood will find out today if he has won a prestigious NHS Parliamentary Award for his work in the town over the last twenty years.Ron Ridge, who lives in the town, has given many thousands of hours of his time to cover his l
Alex Burghart MP Welcomes Pause to Changes at Brentwood Community HospitalA proposal to remove intermediate care beds from Brentwood Community Hospital and replace them with a 50 bed stroke unit for Mid and South Essex has been shelved for six months.Brentwood’s Member of Parliament, Alex Burghart M
I was pleased to hear this week that the proposals to take intermediate care beds away from Brentwood Community Hospital and use the facility as a 50 bed stroke unit have been shelved for six months by the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board.Having campaigned against the plans and the impact t
An update from Mid and South Essex ICB about the current consultation into the future use of Brentwood Community Hospital
"The four-day Easter break has impacted the ability of NHS Mid and South Essex to respond to some of the queries it has received about the ongoing NHS public consultation, and s
As promised in my previous articles about the ongoing consultation (7th and 16th February) about the future use of Brentwood Community Hospital, I have attended the consultation event held by Mid and South Essex ICB and have submitted my views through the consultation process as follows:
"Brentwood
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Update March
The deadline for consultation responses to be received has been extended by two weeks to 6th April
Update 16th February
Brentwood Consultation meeting now arranged by Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board at Brentwood Community Hospital on 1st March from 10-12noon in t
