Saturday, 5 July 2014

NHS

Looking at my emails this morning there is one warning me that the NHS is about to implode, the idea being put forward is to centralise services, so if you have a heart problem you will not go to your local hospital but to a specialist hospital in your area, you might be lucky if this hospital happens to be in your city, but if not you will have no choice but to travel, these specialist hospitals will cut back income for your local hospital, if there is no income they will have to close, is this what we expect of our health service?, the problem is that many of these decisions are being taken by younger people who do not have the slightest idea as to just how difficult travelling to distant hospitals is for elderly patients, and they do not it seems to take this into account. you can only wring so much savings out of the NHS and now it is at the point where all savings have been made without cutting services but if the government carries on that will be the next step, I have just spent some time in hospital and it was very noticeable the shortage of nurses on the wards, and with a shift of 12 and 1/2 hours it is not surprising that mistakes can and do happen, don't let the government not the opposition tell you that they care they don't, they are just cutting the budget to the bare minimum, you should be aware of this before you vote in the general election next year.

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