I WAS taken to A&E at Treliske recently and had to wait many hours, as well as stroke victims and others, until a bed became vacant, which happens a lot these days I believe. It was quite distressing.

The old Richard Lander School building at Higher Town in Truro would be an ideal place to build a house for convalescence, where patients who were clogging the allocation of beds because they have nowhere to go, or no adequate care facilities at home, could go to help free up the beds in the medical wards whilst their cases were being sorted.

Perhaps The Red Cross and other charities could be involved?

What happened to the plan that Budock Hospital in Falmouth could be turned into a multi-purpose medical training school and be able to take patients from Treliske who need to be moved on?

It does not make financial sense to have surgeons and other quite highly qualified staff unoccupied until beds become vacant.

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