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Have your say on Rugby St Cross Hospital A&E downgrade
29/07/2010

NHS chiefs have launched a public consultation on plans to downgrade the A&E unit at Rugby’s St Cross Hospital.

Bosses at NHS Warwickshire say the unit has been A&E “in name only” for several years and serious cases are already sent straight to Coventry.

As well as changing the name bosses plan to axe the unit’s overnight emergency doctor, citing lack of demand. Instead patients can choose between a doctor led service 8am-10pm or a 24 hour team of emergency nurses.

The consultation paper claims medical advances mean the A&E unit at St Cross has fallen behind. But it fails to address the NHS pledge to keep the A&E unit at St Cross made during the Acute Service Review in 2006.

Taken from the Coventry Telegraph.

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