More questions i wish to ask Jeremy Lefroy

It should be considered extremely disturbing that Trusts are deliberating the closure of Stroke Rehabilitation Units at hospitals such as Stafford Hospital. The following report is extremely interesting BBC News (6/8/2014) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28666147 "Since 2010, anyone suffering a stroke in London is taken to one of eight 24-hour specialist units rather than their nearest unit across the capital's network of 30 hospitals. Patients are assessed immediately and given brain scans and clot-busting treatment if needed. The units were selected to ensure that no Londoner is more than half-an-hour's ambulance journey away. Most of the rest still carry out rehabilitation, although five do not provide any stroke care. In Greater Manchester, only stroke patients seen within four hours of developing symptoms are taken directly to one of three specialist stroke centres with other patients taken to one of 10 district centres. Only one of the specialist centres is open 24 hours a day and no hospitals stopped providing stroke services entirely as a result of centralisation." This article makes me question the following.. 1. Why are hospitals in areas such as Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire, areas which are away from UK cities, being subjected to their stroke units facing closure? 2. Why are units such as the one in Stafford hospital, which avoid possible/probable journeys in excess of 1/2 hour's ambulance journey to Stoke, facing closure? 3. Why would the demise of Stafford Hospital's 'local' stroke rehabilitation unit be considered? At the time of this report, London had eight 24 hour specialist units plus a network of 30 hospitals with local units for patients to access. 4. Why are the lives of residents living in the Shires appearing less important than the lives of city dwellers? Sensibly, city stroke unit services seem to have been moulded , pared and adapted to suit the population residing in inner and outer London/Manchester etc. However, one may presume that the population living in cities and urban areas, is proportionately more dense per square metre than the lesser dense volume of population, living in areas of a comparable size in the suburbs and rural areas of the U.K. 5. Why would stroke sufferers in the Stafford constituency be subjected to visiting a super hospital for rehabilitation treatment, rather than visiting their own local hospital. Particularly considering the quote from the above BBC News report "NO HOSPITALS STOPPED PROVIDING STROKE SERVICES ENTIRELY AS A RESULT OF CENTRALISATION." 6. Is UHNM able to cope with a further influx of stroke victims and sufferers requiring rehabilitation? 7. Will staff at University Hospital be even more demoralised with yet more pressure being put on them? 8. Will patients be expected to wait on trollies in corridors, as has been witnessed on frequent occasions in various news reports and by visitors and patients alike. 9. Am I wrong to think this latest consideration by the Trust is a farce more suited to a situation comedy?