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They will disguise it as “a need for local housing”, without taking into account that it will house no locals.

And the hospital will get closed anyway.

Ok, so I may be being cynical. My response? What keeps happening that makes me this way…?

Ah well. I suppose democracy, like altruism, doesn’t really exist.

I have recently taken up voodoo (religious freedoms, and all that!). If anyone has photos and (if at all possible) any hair or nail clippings from the people who make these decisions (or the people who appoint the people who make these decisions), i would be most grateful.

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Now there would be a best of both worlds solution ….

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Now, suddenly, an unelected and unaccountable “board” have decided that the hospital must go. They haven’t asked the people of Henley (actually, they have…the people said they like their hospital and want to keep it),but what use is public opinion in the grip of corporate mentality?

I propose that the board are trying to sell what is, in fact, stolen property (stolen from the people of Henley by the government). This is a crime, and i demand the arrest of these NHS management bounders! (all offences have been arrestable since January 1st of this year).

No, really. Give the s something to think about. The little sons of .

With bells on!

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If hospitals are to be run as businesses then surely they should be left to decide how to spend their money, as opposed to having restrictions such as PFI placed upon their infrastructure demands.

Watching the debacle over the Barts PFI plan and the Paddington Basin project before it, not to mention the fortnightly breakdowns in Private Eye et al points to an NHS that is not run as a business, but an NHS that is run for business.

It does seem to be a common theme in areas where PFI has appeared that land assets move from the crown to the private sector as a way of offsetting spiralling costs. School playing fields, Inland Revenue Offices, old hospital grounds. It does make me wonder when we’ll see unused tube tunnels sold.

(And before someone points it out I am aware that some of the old tram stations in London are now in private hands, and used for document storage. I’ll put my train spotter notepad down now)

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Committees are, by their very nature , not easy to work with, or even for, since it is seldom indeed, that unanimity in decision making is arrived at,at least without possibly harmful compromises being agreed upon.

If a business is not able to balance the books, some radical method of making them balance must be formulated and followed through ,absolutely, if the business is to survive.

It is naturally hard to imagine a hospital as a business, but, in essence, that is what it is.

Merely throwing massive amounts of money at a perceived problem, without a viable solution, is not the answer.
Often the higher a budget is set, the more wastage will occur, if the existing levels of expenditure are not reviewed and corrected, as found necessary, on a regular basis.The resources are not limitless, depite some thoughts to the contrary.

My own personal belief is that there are too many non medically qualified managers; each one interested in his own fiefdom; without a proper oversight as to the bigger, medical, picture. Too many unrealistic numerically meaningless targets are set, without thought that a hospital deals with patients, not numbers.

The Matron of old ran a tight ship: why can’t this be the order of the day again. Perhaps, if this were the case , some hospitals in danger of closure would be withdrawn from the danger zone:permanently.

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