Now that ‘Sir’ David Nicholson has been doing the media round
for the last fortnight, I suspect he’s off on a nice holiday before he retires.
The media were toothless with him – there is now period of ‘public consultation’,
when that’s over we will get a big closure programme.
As a taster; Trafford General Hospital in Manchester is to
lose its Accident And Emergency, the Health Minister announces.
The sadness of it is that this was the birthplace of the NHS
(65 years old last week) and it’s founder Aneurin Bevan was introduced to its ‘first’
patient, 13 year old Sylvia Beckingham. She’d be 78 years old now – I wonder
what she thinks about it?
Except, the next door hospitals - Manchester Royal Infirmary
and Wythenshawe, aren’t meeting their 95% target for treating A and E patients
within 4 hours – so the closure has to wait for them to pull their socks up.
That shouldn’t take long – the summer is usually quieter. It will
be fun next winter…
As I keep saying, if you shut the A and E, you shut the
hospital.
Neil Harris.
(a don’t stop till you drop production)
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