This comes as a result of Barnet Hospital’s successful application to NHS London for a multi-million pound improvement programme to ensure that the hospital has the capacity to cope with the extra patients it will receive when the BEH Strategy is implemented. This Strategy will mean some patients who previously used emergency and maternity care at Chase Farm will begin to use Barnet with some services being split between the hospital trust’s two sites.
The plans include enlarging Barnet’s existing A&E Department to provide a Resuscitation Unit, Paediatric Assessment Unit and Clinical Decision Unit. The Maternity Services will also be extended to include new Obstetric and Midwifery-Led Birthing Units, alongside two new ambulance bays and twenty-eight parking spaces.
The plans are available for viewing at Barnet House in Whetstone until Thursday 28th June. A final decision is expected in late July.
Theresa said, “I warmly welcome the expansion plans for Barnet Hospital. It has always been my absolute top priority to ensure that Barnet Hospital is given the support and funding it needs to expand capacity well ahead of any services being transferred from Chase Farm.”“However, I have serious concerns about parking at the hospital. There is already a serious shortage of parking at the hospital with many patients and visitors parking along Wellhouse Lane and the surrounding roads.”
“The twenty-eight new parking spaces outlined in the expansion plans are wholly inadequate to cope with the thousands of extra patients that could be coming from Enfield. It’s not even clear that it will be as many as twenty-eight new spaces, it could be less than that. I will be campaigning strongly for greater parking provision over the coming weeks.”