There’s increasing concern about accessibility of hospital services after ambulances taking patients from High Wycombe to Stoke Mandeville had to be diverted the long way round today after a pile-up blocked the Amersham to Aylesbury road for several hours during the evening rush hour. Most accident and emergency cases in Wycombe to to Stoke Mandeville and at present all Wycombe births are being carried out there. If an expectant mother or accident victim had been caught in yesterday’s snarl up it would have taken over an hour to get from Wycombe to the hospital.
The concerns are deepened by persistent reports, officially denied, that Wexham Park Hospital near Slough may become just an accident and emergency unit in order to reduce costs and the hospital trust’s massive debt. Many Wycombe area patients go to Wexham as an alternative to Stoke Mandeville.
Today's accident at the Leather Lane junction with the main road at Great Missenden, involved a car transporter and three other vehicles. One man was badly injured and others had to be rescued from their vehicles.
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