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Data from the NHS has shown that more people are waiting a month for a GP appointment than at any time since when records began in 2017. 4,124 people in Crawley faced a wait of 28 days or more to see a GP in October alone. A further 9,914 people had to wait more than two weeks. At the same time…
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Anyone using Crawley’s roads over recent months won’t have failed to notice the appalling state many of them are now in. Parts of Barnfield Road in particular seem to be more pot hole than road of late. As most people will know, local services in Crawley are split between Crawley Borough Council and West Sussex…
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Tomorrow is the TUC’s Right to Strike Day of Action, protesting against the Government’s latest attempts to limit the ability of workers to protect their rights at work. The UK already has some of the most draconian anti-trade union legislation in the world, the introduction of which largely aligns with a long period of stagnant…
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Crawley residents may well remember seeing a Facebook ad like the one above during the run-up to the 2021 County Council elections. The picture is of what was once the Northgate Children and Family Centre and as a local party we were trying to make residents aware that the town was about to lose almost…
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I’ve rarely seen the level of immediate public reaction to a story as strong as the realisation just 15 months ago that our rivers and seas were being polluted with raw sewage on a regular basis and Conservative MPs were happy to let them continue. In fact, the last opinion poll to give the Conservative…
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Despite standing down as Leader of Crawley Borough Council last May, I remain a member of the council and in order to continue contributing to its work I was appointed Chair of the Governance Committee. Governance isn’t the most interesting of the committees, but as it’s responsible for setting the rules around how the council…
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December’s figures from the NHS reveal that 4.961 people had to wait more than four hours for emergency care at A&Es in Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. Shockingly, 574 people locally had to wait more than 12 hours to be admitted to accident and emergency. Just 54.7% of patients admitted to A&E in the…
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Last week, the NHS released the latest data on ambulance waiting times, covering the period before industrial action commenced. For all the Conservatives’ attempt to argue that the public are entitled to minimum service levels during periods of strike action, the reality is that these new figures show that 13 years of their Government has…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 