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St Ann's Hospital receives support from council
3:23pm Thursday 19th July 2007
Comments (4)A pledge of support for St Ann's Hospital has been made this week by Haringey Council.
In a motion passed at the full council meeting on Monday evening, councillors agreed they would "fight to ensure that in any redevelopment of St Ann's Hospital its health facilities are retained or reprovided in an improved way with full consultation and mutual agreement."
The stance, initiated by Councillor Bob Harris, cabinet member for adult social care and well being, comes amid concerns for the future of the site in St Ann's Road Tottenham.
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust owns the site, but leases parts of it to Haringey Teaching Primary Care Trust (TPCT) for more general health services.
With the borough's health provision being broadly overhauled, questions surround the continuation of services at St Ann's. Some fear that all general facilities will be removed from the site, which would spell the end of a community hospital in the borough.
Cllr Harris said: "We want everyone in our borough to enjoy good health, good access to health services, and have a long life, and we want to see the services at St Ann's hospital kept.
"I want to ensure that if there are any changes in the way services are provided, local people are engaged in the process and listened to every step of the way".
But Mario Petrou of the Save St Ann's Hospital campaign said more need to be done.
"Actions speak louder than words.
"Obviously any utterance by the council that it supports the participation of local people has to be matched by deeds."
In line with this, Councillor Carolyn Baker, Liberal Democrat spokeswoman for health is calling for detailed consultation with local people over the potential relocation of every service at St Ann's.
Haringey TPCT has confirmed the need for a strong health care infrastructure and said it will be consulting with colleagues at the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust throughout the consultation on the future of the St Ann's site.
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ICENI, White Hart Lane says...
2:58pm Sat 21 Jul 07
I dont think anyone will miss Friern Barnet but it has given the PCTs ideas on how lucrative it would be to sell of the hospital grounds (lots of nice green space unlike NOrth Midx) and then use money to build mini-medicentres. ONce built (as there is only six in whole borough) they would closed down local GP surgeries and make the ill and the old take the bus...
It is all about making money by covering our greenspaces with concrete.
If they wanted to offer better health facilities they could easily but that would mean cutting back on all those publicity budgets and photo shoots the councillors seem to use at present...