BARNSLEY MP Michael Dugher has written to the chief executive of Barnsley Hospital to raise several concerns about proposals to close the hyper acute stroke unit.
He has questioned the proposal to stop acute stroke care at Barnsley rather than at other hospitals in the region and feels patients and families have not had a sufficiently detailed explanation as to why Barnsley Hospital specifically is losing the service.
The units are being reviewed across South Yorkshire by Commissioners Working Together, a group of eight NHS clinical commissioning groups and NHS England.
Under the new proposals, the Barnsley and Rotherham units would be closed and anyone who suffers a stroke would be taken to either Doncaster, Sheffield or Chesterfield for the first 72 hours of care, or until medically stable.
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