NHS

I am not so sure that the new CCG's are a good thing for the Hospitals in the country, the dashboards that are being set for hospitals brings back the need to meet targets, when will any one learn that health care can't be target led, I watched the 18 week plan all but fall apart, when I have to go for an appointment no one mentions 18 weeks, and then of course choose and book I don't think so another failure, so  it is no good setting targets, the only target that matters is that the patient receives the best treatment possible, and the level of care while in hospital is the best that can be given, this taking specialities in to centralised hospitals is I believe a bit of a fools errand, when you are ill one thing is at the front of your mind that is you will be admitted to your local hospital and receive the treatment needed for recovery and the main help to recovery is the fact the your close relatives can visit you on a regular basis and by that I mean daily, a friend of mine had to have radio therapy for cancer of the throat not at the local hospital as you might think but at another hospital 45/50 miles away, for 20 days 90/100 miles a day travelling on one of the worst  roads in Cambridgeshire, that is not conducive to best patient care, it is no good jumping all over the staff in hospital we need to allow them to care after all that is what we all want do we not?????.