Local people want local health services. It’s not rocket science. But the organisation and re-organisation and restructuring of our health services seems to be a displacement activity for managers rather than truly related to what local people want.
Local health services are vital – and some local services, particularly A&E and maternity, must be just that – local.
But the organisation and re-organisation and restructuring of our health services seems to be a displacement activity for managers rather than truly related to what local people want and need.
The latest involves five area health authorities being ‘rationalised’ – and originally all the options being considered would have resulted in the Whittington losing its A&E. Needless to say – local people were horrified by this and the authorities, when this became public, retreated behind phrases like ‘nothing has been decided’.
That partial retreat – but with a threat still hanging in the air – shows why keeping up the public pressure for high quality, genuinely local health services is so important.
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