We only want you when you're sick enough to be in a hospital bed....

The general manager of the Wesley Hospital, Mr Gerard Wyvill obviously has no idea about what happens at the pool and the level of service /facility/community and professional care. For him to suggest on the front page of the West Side News that a “council pool or public healthcare pool would suffice for hydrotherapy patients” is ill advised and ignorant.

For years we have been encouraged and welcomed to the pool as a centre of excellence, with specialist staff. The hospital has for years invited us in, nutured and cared. The physiotherapist give us treatment when needed but allow us to use the Wesley pool and equipment to do our exercise which gives us control over our own health. Now they are saying that any pool will do.

Yes there are a few heated pools in Brisbane but the ones I’ve tried closer to my home are not suitable for hydrotherapy. Patient welfare and safety must be considered.

82 year old frail aged people are not going to hop a bus or train to Royal Brisbane Pool, even if access was possible.

They are not going to the local Toowong council pool partly because it was destroyed a few years ago and a multi storey building is now in it’s place, if they went they wouldn’t have been able to get up and down the ladder entry.

This is a private hospital telling many private patients to go elsewhere for their everyday needs…. But please come back when you want a hospital bed.

How short sighted…….