{"id":2427,"date":"2018-06-25T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2018-06-25T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:30:29","slug":"minor-injuries-unit-staying-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"Minor Injuries Unit &#8220;Staying Put&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Michael Fallon visited Sevenoaks Hospital and its Minor Injuries Unit on Friday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> June.\u00a0 He met duty nursing staff and senior management.\u00a0 With representatives of NHS Property estates he inspected the new \u00a3500,000 upgrade of the hospital parking and drainage on both sides of the road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael said: \u201cSevenoaks Hospital is here to stay.\u00a0 Investment on this scale shows confidence in its long-term future, especially when the Minor Injuries Unit has never been busier.\u00a0 The unit is now being used by over 17,000 people a year.\u00a0 Almost every family in the district must have had some-one use it recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group is holding a public meeting at the Stag Theatre at 1.30pm on Tuesday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> July on its ideas to adapt the hospital into a \u201clocal care hub.\u00a0\u00a0 Sir Michael added: \u201cwhatever they propose, we will not accept any cut in the services currently provided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2428\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2428\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2428\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sevenoaks-Hospital-visit-22nd-June-2018-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Michael outside Sevenoaks Hospital with staff \" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sevenoaks-Hospital-visit-22nd-June-2018-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sevenoaks-Hospital-visit-22nd-June-2018-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sevenoaks-Hospital-visit-22nd-June-2018-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sevenoaks-Hospital-visit-22nd-June-2018-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael outside Sevenoaks Hospital with staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Michael Fallon visited Sevenoaks Hospital and its Minor Injuries Unit on Friday 22nd June.\u00a0 He met duty nursing staff and senior management.\u00a0 With representatives of NHS Property estates he inspected the new \u00a3500,000 upgrade of the hospital parking and drainage on both sides of the road. &nbsp; Sir Michael said: \u201cSevenoaks Hospital is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor Injuries Unit &#8220;Staying Put&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[850,676,849,446,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}