Doc Lynam
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- Jun 19, 2011
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Considering the location, the beautiful Victorian building and 149 flats to be built 10m is a snip.
Brighton Hospital
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Considering the location, the beautiful Victorian building and 149 flats to be built 10m is a snip.
Yup, that was a ****ing steal. Those places will go for big money. Not sure if the building is remaining though? Isn't it coming down?
Answering my own question....
New homes in Brighton - Royal Alexandra Quarter - New Homes by Taylor Wimpey
Answering my own question....
New homes in Brighton - Royal Alexandra Quarter - New Homes by Taylor Wimpey
Doc Lynam
I hate the Daily Mail
- Jun 19, 2011
- 7,226
Sorry 149 flats was denied as a proposal as they said it would be to large, the original building isnt protected due to later alterations but it still needs to be incorporated into new designs for the site as it's a significent Brighton land mark!
Can't fault the medical staff. Many of the managers are morons though and it's in completely the wrong place with too much squeezed into a small space.
GreersElbow
New member
I've always received good care at the royal Sussex, but it does need improvements structurally and in terms of staffing. It is due to have construction work soon to improve the infrastructure and I think they're going to be updating the A&E to become a major trauma centre for the south.
Hospitals will always need improvements, medical technology is constantly evolving and should be kept up to date. But it doesn't help it's having a massive shake up and top down re-organisation and yet another layer of bureaucracy to the NHS as a whole...
My best experience was in 2010, march I believe. I had ACL reconstruction in August 2009, and then twisted my knee (all my fault) which tore my meniscus a little more. I popped into my GP who referred me to the orthopaedic centre within a week. I got seen within a week, the doctor looked at my knee, confirmed it was a meniscus tear then said "want surgery today?". I had to decline and ask for a few more days due to college and work.
But I was operated on within 1.5 weeks of seeing my GP, i was incredibly impressed. My knee is doing good today, the odd ache and pain due to weather but this is to be expected as a result of the injury.
Hospitals will always need improvements, medical technology is constantly evolving and should be kept up to date. But it doesn't help it's having a massive shake up and top down re-organisation and yet another layer of bureaucracy to the NHS as a whole...
My best experience was in 2010, march I believe. I had ACL reconstruction in August 2009, and then twisted my knee (all my fault) which tore my meniscus a little more. I popped into my GP who referred me to the orthopaedic centre within a week. I got seen within a week, the doctor looked at my knee, confirmed it was a meniscus tear then said "want surgery today?". I had to decline and ask for a few more days due to college and work.
But I was operated on within 1.5 weeks of seeing my GP, i was incredibly impressed. My knee is doing good today, the odd ache and pain due to weather but this is to be expected as a result of the injury.
spongy
Well-known member
Some parts of the site are great, others are terrible. The tower block, millennium wing and cancer centre are all ok but the Barry building and Jubilee building on eastern road are terrible, I've done work all over that site as we had the contract in my old job installing the IT infrastructure.
The problem is that the site is too confined and just too small to fit a modern well equipped hospital on, the re build that is supposed to be happening looks all well and good but there is just no room for expansion in the future unless more storeys are put on buildings. What really needs to happen is to find a new site on the outskirts of town where there is the space to build.
The staff there are fantastic and always do their utmost to help people, they are a credit to Brighton and the NHS, considering some of the buildings they work in they all needs medals.
The problem is that the site is too confined and just too small to fit a modern well equipped hospital on, the re build that is supposed to be happening looks all well and good but there is just no room for expansion in the future unless more storeys are put on buildings. What really needs to happen is to find a new site on the outskirts of town where there is the space to build.
The staff there are fantastic and always do their utmost to help people, they are a credit to Brighton and the NHS, considering some of the buildings they work in they all needs medals.
This hospital (The Royal Sussex County Hospital) is HUGE. Was your friend just attending one department for an appointment or did he have a bed for a time?
The Large One
Who's Next?
There was a small piece on radio Sussex this morning, along the lines of nursing staff saying that conditions are pretty poor.
GreersElbow
New member
Thanks for the link! Hopefully this will be a huge boost for the local economy if it's going to employ local tradesman and businesses.
Dover
Home at Last.
Here is a small film of what the future may hold...Redeveloping the Royal Sussex County Hospital - YouTube
Barrel of Fun
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The conditions are ridiculously outdated and cramped. The building makes me feel tense and stressed, but the staff in have seen have been exceptionally good.
I wouldn't want to work there.
I wouldn't want to work there.
MattBackHome
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
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I did't realise they were calling it the Royal Alexandra 'Quarter'. Bleurgh.
Tricky Dicky
New member
I'm up there tomorrow - a nice simple iron infusion for me. They will however, be looking after me in the future when I have my kidney transplant. I find the staff generally good, but hate the building itself.
My one experience of A&E there was pretty bad though
My one experience of A&E there was pretty bad though
- Jul 7, 2003
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The bit about the trauma centre is already in place. People who were hanging by a thread following car accidents and so on used to be routinely airlifted or blue lighted to St Georges in Tooting, or Kings College Hospital (in another ropey part of London- Brixton or Streatham I think). Now they mostly go to the RSCH. If they get airlifted they just clear the footballers off East Brighton Park & land there
- Jul 7, 2003
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The RSCH is generally a pretty miserable place to be, but then again most hospitals, especially old ones, usually are.
If you want REALLY depressing, try the General up on Elm Grove. It's like being inside a submarine.
If you want REALLY depressing, try the General up on Elm Grove. It's like being inside a submarine.
Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
My mother had a cancer op last month and the staff were excellent. My brother at the ripe old age of 42, had a heart attack last Friday and is still with us due to excellent treatment received at the princess royal in haywards Heath and the emergency op at the royal Sussex. He was however not pleased when the surgeon informed him that he couldn't go to palace.
Not a bad word from the Deportivo clan
The bit about the trauma centre is already in place. People who were hanging by a thread following car accidents and so on used to be routinely airlifted or blue lighted to St Georges in Tooting, or Kings College Hospital (in another ropey part of London- Brixton or Streatham I think). Now they mostly go to the RSCH. If they get airlifted they just clear the footballers off East Brighton Park & land there
Presumably the renovation of the RSCH will include the helipad. You need one to be a major trauma centre. Half the multistorey car park at at Southampton General is now a helipad for that very reason.
Kings is at Denmark Hill btw
