The basic premise of the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership consultation on proposals for hospital service changes in mid and south Essex, is to improve care by providing it in the best place and designed around you. It's also about being sustainable for the future. The consultation contains proposals to transfer services from Orsett Hospital to purpose [...]
By Dr José Garcia Lobera In April this year it’s going be 15 years since I moved from Spain to work as a GP in Southend-on-Sea, very proudly in the same practice. Over this time I have seen the important role primary care plays in the lives – and the health – of local people and how [...]
The way we care for people in hospital has changed enormously in the 31 years I have been a doctor. As techniques and indeed technology have improved we have been able to develop much more specialist care, where complex and severe conditions are treated by those at the very top of their skill. As a [...]
Having been a practising GP in Essex for more than twenty years and part of the NHS for far longer, I’ve seen (and experienced) first-hand the way health and care services evolve and change. Change is hard. We do the same things all of the time, sometimes regardless of whether or not that is good [...]