Photo credit St Catherine’s Hospice

Crawley’s MP and the Leader of the Council have issued a joint statement to express their concern about the job losses at St Catherine’s Hospice. 

The hospice announced recently that it needs to save £1.5 million to sustain future services. After formal consultation with its staff teams, the hospice expects to lose over 40 roles from all its staff including nurses.

Peter Lamb MP and Councillor Michael Jones commented on the hospice’s recent move from Malthouse Road to the new site at Pease Pottage, and are concerned that funding has not followed after the relocation was encouraged.  They say they have raised the issue with health ministers and NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board and will continue to work to try to secure funding for St Catherine’s Hospice.

Photo credit – Queen Victoria Hospital.   Photo shows Steve Ody, East Grinstead Town Mayor; Chief Medical Officer Lt. Col. Tania Cubison; Mims Davies, Conservative MP for East Grinstead & Uckfield; Captain Chris Peschke, Naval Adviser for Canadian Defence; and James Lowell, Chief Executive Officer, pictured with the ceremonial Canadian Maple Tree at the front entrance to the hospital.

Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead has celebrated the 80th anniversary of its Canadian Wing with an event bringing together countries, military personnel, patients and clinicians. 

The celebration reflected on the Wing’s important historical links to the Canadian and British Armed Forces and the vital contribution it has made in caring for those aircrew patients injured in the Second World War.

The event concluded with the ceremonial planting of a Canadian Maple Tree to signify the enduring bond between the Canadian Armed Forces and its people, and Queen Victoria Hospital.