Just heard on the radio this morning – the extra financial cost of having our troops in Afghanistan is £15m a day. Forget Iraq, Libya and previous adventures elsewhere, forget Syria (?future spend) – just consider Afghanistan.
All round the country, district hospitals, which do very good work, greatly valued by their communities, are threatened with closure/downgrading or it’s happened already. This is on the pretext of being “unaffordable”, “unsustainable” etc.
Take Stafford Hospital, which is now close to a Francis-style quality of care. The financial gap is about £15m and projected over the next few years to get down to as low as £6m possibly (without loss of quality). Let’s say there are 80 hospitals who have had this sort of financial gap finessed upon them (we all know it’s an artificial construct, don’t we).
This means that it is government policy to close or seriously downgrade up to half of all hospitals in England for a fifth of the excess cost of keeping our troops being bombed and fired at in one of our many adventures abroad.
Welcome to civilisation folks!
Actually it wasn’t Britnell wh promised to ‘show no mercy’ – it was his criticism of the planned reforms. But he does now appear to be part of the inner circle, committed to doing just that!
Sorry, skwalker1964 – cd you remove these last few posts from me as they no longer make any sense without the original link to the article!! Sorry to mess up yr board, wd have edited if I could! Many thanks.
No guarantee though, of seeing them in paradise (unless they repent)!
Just heard on the radio this morning – the extra financial cost of having our troops in Afghanistan is £15m a day. Forget Iraq, Libya and previous adventures elsewhere, forget Syria (?future spend) – just consider Afghanistan.
All round the country, district hospitals, which do very good work, greatly valued by their communities, are threatened with closure/downgrading or it’s happened already. This is on the pretext of being “unaffordable”, “unsustainable” etc.
Take Stafford Hospital, which is now close to a Francis-style quality of care. The financial gap is about £15m and projected over the next few years to get down to as low as £6m possibly (without loss of quality). Let’s say there are 80 hospitals who have had this sort of financial gap finessed upon them (we all know it’s an artificial construct, don’t we).
This means that it is government policy to close or seriously downgrade up to half of all hospitals in England for a fifth of the excess cost of keeping our troops being bombed and fired at in one of our many adventures abroad.
Welcome to civilisation folks!
Brilliant info – thanks!
Interesting article here with the man tipped to replace Sir David Nicholson as Head of the NHS. See his comments about Mid-Staffs and administration.
http://www.publicservice.co.uk/publicservant/news/23005
Thanks for that!
Actually it wasn’t Britnell wh promised to ‘show no mercy’ – it was his criticism of the planned reforms. But he does now appear to be part of the inner circle, committed to doing just that!
Pls delete THIS thread instead as I have already clarified the above! Thanks!
Sorry, skwalker1964 – cd you remove these last few posts from me as they no longer make any sense without the original link to the article!! Sorry to mess up yr board, wd have edited if I could! Many thanks.