Campaign to Save the Homeopathic Hospital in Tunbridge Wells (CaSHH)

<body leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <p><font face="Arial">This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial">Please download a frames compatible browser such as <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx">Internet Explorer</a> or <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox</a>.</font></p> <p> </p> <p><font face="Arial">If you can't use frames pages, please click on the links below and use your browser's "Back" button to return to this page for other links.</font></p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table1"> <tr> <td align="center" width="12%"><font face="Arial"> <a href="hospital.htm">About the Hospital</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="12%"><font face="Arial"> <a href="meetings.htm">Meetings</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="12%"><font face="Arial"> <a href="whattodo.htm">What You Can Do</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="12%"><font face="Arial"> <a href="files.htm">Files</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="12%"><font face="Arial"> <a href="links.htm">Links</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="12%"><font face="Arial"> <a href="filesarchive.htm">File Archive</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="12%"><font face="Arial"> <a href="photos.htm">Photos</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="12%"><font face="Arial"> <a href="contacts.htm">Contacts</a></font></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <u><b><span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="5">NHS bosses want to close the hospital down!</font></span></b></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><span lang="EN-UK"> <font size="3" face="Arial">PLEASE HELP US SAVE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE HOMEOPATHIC AND COMPLEMENTARY </font> <font face="Arial">HEALTH SERVICES FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE SOUTH EAST</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></span></p> <h3 align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <font face="Arial" size="3"> <span lang="EN-UK" style="font-weight: 400"> NHS bosses in West Kent plan to stop funding patients who choose to be treated by </span> <span style="font-weight: 400"> homoepathic</span><span lang="EN-UK" style="font-weight: 400"> doctors. This will result in the closure of the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital and hundreds of patients having their treatment disrupted or possibly stopped altogether. </span> </font> </h3> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3">They have taken this decision behind closed doors – they have not consulted the hospital, doctors or any of the patients. They have only said they are in a financial crisis (they have to chop £9.6million pounds from health services in West Kent) and cutting the homeopathic hospital and its services would save £200,000. </font></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText2" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <span lang="EN-UK" style="font-weight:400"> <font face="Arial" size="3">This is a bad decision, badly made, poorly informed, and directly damages patient services on which thousands of people have come to rely.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></span></p> <h3 align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <u> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="4">As patients and supporters of the hospital we say:</font></span></u></h3> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <span style="font-family: Arial" lang="EN-UK">***</span><font face="Arial"> </font> <span lang="EN-UK"><font face="Arial" size="3">The decision needs reversing today.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-family: Arial" lang="EN-UK"> <font size="3">***</font></span><font face="Arial"> </font> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3">New patients should continue to be referred by GPs.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0px; word-spacing:0px; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0px" align="center"> <span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-family: Arial" lang="EN-UK"> <font size="3">***</font></span><font face="Arial"> </font> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3">The NHS bosses don’t know what they are doing and the far-reaching implications of this penny-pinching.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0px; word-spacing:0px; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0px" align="center"> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3">*** Existing patients need urgent reassurance that their treatments will continue under the expert guidance of the hospital’s medical staff.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0px; word-spacing:0px; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0px" align="center"> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial">***</font></span><font face="Arial"> </font> <span lang="EN-UK"><font face="Arial" size="3"> More use needs to be made of NHS homeopathic and complementary techniques – they help patients and support GPs, often in very difficult cases.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0px; word-spacing:0px; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0px" align="center">  </p> <div style="mso-element: para-border-div; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; border: 1.0pt solid windowtext; padding-left: 4.0pt; padding-right: 4.0pt; padding-top: 1.0pt; padding-bottom: 1.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; word-spacing:0px; line-height:150%; margin-left:0px; margin-bottom:0px" align="center"> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3">ALL THIS WILL BE LOST IF THE NHS BOSSES HAVE THEIR WAY.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; word-spacing:0px; line-height:150%; margin-left:0px; margin-bottom:0px" align="center"> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3">GETTING NHS BOSSES TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS IS DIFFICULT. COULD YOU HELP US ?</font></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="word-spacing: 0px; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <font face="Arial"> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font size="3">The whole of the south-east is affected. There are five specialist centres for homoeopathy and related treatments in the UK. The Tunbridge Wells centre is designed to service people living in Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex. But the critical decision to end funding is being made by just one set of NHS managers, those working in West Kent (in the West Kent Primary Care Trust).</font></span> </font> <span lang="EN-UK"> <font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></span></p> </body>