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Haslemere Community Beds!

Following recent press and online speculation about the community beds at Haslemere Hospital, the League of Friends met with Greg Stafford MP – for our Constituency today 14th April 2025. 
Rose Parry (Chairperson) has had earlier conversations with the Royal Surrey Foundation Trust (RSFT) and Haslemere Health Centre.
The reality for the League of Friends is the gradual change in use of Community Beds – they are no longer used by Primary Care for direct admissions thus avoiding admission into the acute hospital (RSFT) but stepped down from the acute setting driven by bed pressures.
Primary and Secondary Care are facing huge challenges. Collaborative working is the only way forward. This has happened before locally without the new Neighbourhood Health Guidance 2025/26 Framework.
However, it is concerning to the League that a change in medical cover has highlighted currently a lack of resilience in the system.
Our focus is:-
•    The loss of beds and it implications.
•    The future of the hospital.
We have had assurance that the Urgent Treatment Centre changes are progressing well and unaffected by the current bed situation. Hopefully it will be up and running by July.
We have had assurance that the beds have been temporarily suspended - not permanently closed - whilst a medical replacement solution is found.
The current events have overshadowed the excellent work that happens in the hospital. 
We will continue to monitor closely the situation regarding the inpatient beds.
Our Annual General Meeting is being held on the 21st May in the Hunter Centre at 7.30pm. We will hopefully have further information to share then.

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Dr Mark Hurst, President

Rose Parry, Chairman​