Wirral News letters: May 4

May 4 2011 by Our Correspondent, Birkenhead News

What about patient care?

TO FRANK Field, Birkenhead and Alison McGovern, Bebington:

Could you please explain to the people of Wirral the reasons why Clatterbridge Hospital is being closed down, ward by ward, to the detriment of patient care? First it was the Department of Care for the Elderly.

Result – bed blocking in Arrowe Park Hospital because other respite centres have closed.

Second, M1 and M2 wards reduced capacity.

Result – reduction in knee and hip surgery.

Thirdly Stroke rehabilitation, the only purpose-built ward in the Wirral, closing.

Many patients owe the quality of their future lives to this excellent facility and the experienced staff.

Future? Neurological rehabilitation to go?

Many of these departments at Clatterbridge were set up to give the people of Wirral a better quality of life. Does that not matter any more?

What is going to happen to the empty wards which we, the people of Wirral, have financed with our NHI contributions?

Lease them to private companies?

Put people care first.

Norman Yates

Birkenhead

Phone police

I WRITE in response to the letter Shocked by Beach Gangs (Your Views, April 27)

I live in one of the roads that lead to the promenade and although it is supposed to be an ‘alcohol-free’ area you do indeed get groups of young men drinking on the beach.

This has been going on for a number of years now.

On this occasion I would give the police my support as, almost every day, there have been police cars on the promenade and I have seen police remove bottles of alcohol from groups of youths.

If such incidents occur again phone the police.

Almost everyone owns a mobile phone today, and I am sure that the police will respond and remove the guilty parties.

Name and address Supplied

Pothole-crazy

I AM a resident of Eastham and I am amazed that, of the roads that need to be resurfaced, Eastham Rake has been ignored once again.

Plymyard Avenue has been resurfaced twice while part of Eastham Rake remains full of potholes.

I would like to ask the councillors of Wirral to drive along Eastham Rake and explain why it remains in such an un-roadworthy condition.

I would like to know when Eastham Rake will be re-surfaced.

Tricia Rogers

Eastham

Easter dates

I’VE JUST been reading the current edition of the Wirral News and see that you are advertising Saturday, April 23, as Easter Saturday.

This is wrong and misleading.

Easter begins on a Sunday, the first day of the week.

Easter Saturday, therefore, is the Saturday after Easter Day – this year April 30.

The correct name for the Saturday before Easter is Easter Eve or Holy Saturday. We are used to referring to the day before Christmas as Christmas Eve.

By the same reckoning the day before Easter can easily be remembered as Easter Eve.

John McKae

Via email

Such kindness

THROUGH the Wirral News, I would like to express my thanks to the kind gentleman and lady who came to my assistance when I tripped and fell in Telegraph Road near Tesco.

They stayed with me until the ambulance arrived and I am very grateful to you both for your help.

Name and address withheld.

Wasted influence

OSAMA Bin Laden wielded huge influence.

He could have used it for the good of humankind.

He chose instead to instigate some of the most vile and barbaric attacks of modern times – which will be his memorial. What a waste.

Evelyn Campbell Smith

Greasby