\n Thurrock Councillor Cici Manwa, Labour councillor for Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park, spoke out at a meeting of Thurrock Council\u2019s adult and health services overview and scrutiny committee.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kevin Garod, anchor programme manager at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.\u00a0attended the meeting on Thursday to outline the trust\u2019s healthcare strategy over the next ten years. It\u00a0involves more care in the community to alleviate pressure on hospitals.\n<\/p>\n
\n After listening to the strategy, Ms Manwa said: \u201cRecently I had a bereavement of a family friend of mine. She lived in Tilbury and she was terminally ill with cancer.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe was in the hospital for quite some time and she came out and she was at home alone. There wasn\u2019t really any support or aftercare from when she left the hospital and she ended up dying alone. People didn’t even know she was dead until a few days later.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Manwa added: \u201cConsidering she was somebody who spent her whole life working in Grays in palliative care, helping other people, the manner in which she died was\u00a0very tragic.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe’re looking at a ten-year plan, but right now it seems as though services don’t seem particularly joined up. I’m specifically talking about terminally ill people. People with cancer. They’re coming to the end of their life but that dignity should be expected throughout their entire lifetime. I hope that nobody else in Thurrock will have to experience what she had to go through.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Last year, Healthwatch Thurrock published a report on discharges from the three Mid and South Essex NHS Trust (MSE) hospitals at Basildon, Southend and Broomfield.\n<\/p>\n
\n While discharges are handled\u00a0by hospitals, social workers and NHS staff in communities, the report said there had been an increased number of \u201cfailed\u2019 and unsafe discharges\u201d because it is believed some patients are being discharged too soon.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mark Hooper, councillor responsible for health and wellbeing, confirmed the incident wasn\u2019t an isolated one. He said: \u201cI thank councillor Manwa and recently councillor Fox who raised issues around discharge from Southend Hospital to Thurrock.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMaybe we could have a meeting to look at this because there are number of concerns round discharge from Southend back to Thurrock. \u00a0This is about the fifth case I’ve heard in about six months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thurrock Councillor Cici Manwa, Labour councillor for Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park, spoke out at a meeting of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970629718037016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}