'Terrific' response to independent Bridlington Hospital survey
The consultation was held by four councillors from the town last month.
An independent survey about Bridlington Hospital and health services has gone very well.
That is according to a group of councillors from the town who started their own consultation last month.
It was because they were unhappy with the way another survey was been done by East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group and the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Mike Heslop-Mullens, East Riding of Yorkshire Councillor for Bridlington North, said:
"It's been terrific with over 1,300 responses both online and in paper and I'm still receiving paper forms being put through my letterbox because people are passing it onto family and friends who may not have done it the first time round and we're still collating all of that.
"The overall comment from them would be that 'this was our hospital, we paid for it, we own it if not legally, we own it morally and they don't believe that their needs and their illnesses are really taken into account or consideration when deciding that higher echelons of how to run the NHS.
"We've already presented them to the East Riding CCG and to the York and Scarborough Hospital Trust. I think they were surprised and shocked perhaps by the level of response we received. It was only a short period that we ran this for.
"I think it's also awakened them to the fact that people of Bridlington want things that they need. We've had a 30 year-old hospital that for the last two decades have been allowed to deteriorate through loss of staff, because of services being removed and lack of investment into the building itself.
"We're happy to help the Trust move forward with the people and I think perhaps we could look at some small steps, bringing in a consultant for half a day a week to help people, looking at what other services can be done, post-surgery, pre-surgery, all of that can be done in Bridlington. There's no need for people to travel to Hull or York."