Outrageous proposal to demolish part of Seaton Hospital
www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/23859905.wing-seaton-hospital-demolished-save-nhs-money/
When the Conservatives allowed the removal of Seaton Hospital’s beds to go ahead in 2017, it looked as though the next step was the complete closure of the hospital, which the government was giving incentives for at the time. The resolute community opposition to the whole scheme derailed this plan. Now it’s back in a new form – the partial demolition of the hospital.
The League of Friends, Re:store, Richard Foord MP and Paul Arnott, Leader of EDDC, are already on the case. But the local community will need to act. The NHS managers we fought last time have obviously moved on and the new ones don’t know what the Seaton community is made of. They’re in for a big surprise. I’ve spent some of my ‘retirement’ researching the history of protest movements and I now know a lot about direct action. If the NHS has any sense they’ll drop this idea pronto.
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 
October 17, 2023 at 5:29 pm
There is no way they should demolish Seaton hospital should never have been closed in the first place !! It’s so useful for the clinics they do used by the locals I’m one of many who bought bricks to build it in the first place .Please fight for it !!
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October 17, 2023 at 5:31 pm
We will! Watch this space.
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November 2, 2023 at 10:53 am
When it was decided to close the hospital beds at Seaton and many other community hospitals in 2017 everyone protested saying this would result in bed blocking and lack of local community care and this has overwhelmingly proved to the case. There is a huge shortage of carers and it is nigh on impossible to get any to come to small villages such as Branscombe. In our emergency hospitals my husband waited 11 hours in a corridor with a bleed on the brain to get a bed.
We were assured that this would never happen in 2017.
Surely this wing of Seaton hospital and others could have been put to good use during the pandemic instead of spending vast amounts of money on the Nightingale hospitals!
I feel that to now demolish this 2 storey wing at Seaton hospital is a very short sighted decision. Surely it would be much better to use this wing as a care hub for palliative care and dementia patients. These community hospitals are vital in taking the pressure off the main RD&E hospital.
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