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Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 7313
Received: 10/03/2019
Respondent: Mr Stewart Phillips
I believe the rapid growth of Solihull population in this plan will be a huge strain on the local NHS secondary care and run the risk of increasing waiting times for treatment for the local population. I imagine that lack of adequate infrastructure for a growing population will adversely effect other services, eg police, fire, schools, etc. I fear that this plan concentrates solely on building houses without consideration of the full impact on support services.
I calculate that every 1000 of population generates 12 hospital admissions and 40 AE attendances per year. I do not see any evidence that impact on our local hospital from cramming more houses into Solihull is taken into account. Some plans account for general practice needs, but not the adverse effect on our hospitals People complain about AE, diagnostic and elective care waiting times. As Solihull grows, emergencies, cancer treatments and other major illnesses will fill our busy hospitals with worsening waiting times for AE, outpatient review, diagnostics and elective treatment for our local population. Hospitals are expensive to build and run, has this been taken into account?