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Restore 24 hr A & E services to the Downe Hospital Downpatrick

Submitted on Wednesday 2nd October 2019

Rejected on Tuesday 8th October 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Restore 24 hr A & E services to the Downe Hospital Downpatrick

Petition Details

Downe Hospital was a newly built hospital which had a 24 hr emergency department,this was taken away from us and left us with a type 2 emergency unit operating Monday-Friday 8am-8pm

Additional Information

This hospital covers a wide scope of patients from all areas or strangford,kilclief,Downpatrick and Ardglass plus all the other surrounding areas,our nearest hospital is the Ulster hospital in dundonald,this is 28.5 miles away 47 mins by car.If u take Ill after 8pm this is the nearest hospital to get treatment from,this hospital is always under great pressure with numbers coming in to their own emergency department without having to take the extra load from the Downe hospitals area past 8pm


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Health and social care is devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly. You might like to contact your MLA. You can find out more details here:

http://aims.niassembly.gov.uk/mlas/contacts.aspx

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