A patient at Stoke Mandeville Hospital had to be treated in a toilet after wards became overcrowded, it emerged on Friday. 240px| Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire ,  where ward staff were forced to treat a patient in a set of toilets after wards became overcrowded. The revelation came as Sheryl Pope, a Buckinghamshire National Health Service strategy director, was questioned over plans to bring healthcare to the forefront of the community. A number of councillers challenged her plans, however, claiming that the opposite had been happening. The Bucks Free Press reported that councillors asked Pope why community hospital beds are being closed and why more clinics are being centralised. The Overview & Scrutiny Committee for Public Health Services was told that an "under-used" gynaecology clinic located at Buckingham Community Hospital was moved to Stoke Mandeville , which one councillor said was already too congested. It emerged that overnight wards at Chalfont's and Gerrards Cross Hospital have remained closed since a fire risk was identified in 2008. Chalfont St Peter councillor, Bruce Allen, said of the revelation: “We've never had an answer from anyone of any intelligence to say what's going to happen. We had a community hospital with 29 beds and it served us well. We keep asking when it's going to be opened and we get nil answers. I've been to so many meetings and heard this nonsense. We can't get an answer from anyone."
A patient at had to be treated in a toilet after wards became overcrowded, it emerged on Friday. 240px| , , , where ward staff were forced to treat a patient in a set of toilets after wards became overcrowded. The revelation came as Sheryl Pope, a strategy director, was questioned over plans to bring healthcare to the forefront of the community. A number of councillers challenged her plans, however, claiming that the opposite had been happening. The reported that councillors asked Pope why community hospital beds are being closed and why more clinics are being centralised. The Overview & Scrutiny Committee for Public Health Services was told that an "under-used" gynaecology clinic located at Buckingham Community Hospital was moved to , which one councillor said was already too congested. It emerged that overnight wards at have remained closed since a fire risk was identified in 2008. councillor, Bruce Allen, said of the revelation: “We've never had an answer from anyone of any intelligence to say what's going to happen. We had a community hospital with 29 beds and it served us well. We keep asking when it's going to be opened and we get nil answers. I've been to so many meetings and heard this nonsense. We can't get an answer from anyone."
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