“For the past 18 months it has been looking at ways of shaking up the county’s hospitals in an effort to combat intense pressure on services” – less thinkers, more doers – simples !!!!!!!

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here we go again, the tail wagging the dog. Telfords opinions and needs don’t count when it comes to services but any amount of dosh is available to tart up the town centre.

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I would urge you all to resist this proposed transfer. In Powys there is no general hospital and an hour’s journey is the norm.We have free prescriptions at an annual cost of £30M but what good is that when you have an emergency.Our leaders prefer to build regional gin palaces rather than decent hospitals.

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What you have here unfortunately is an element of realism being injected into health services in Shropshire as they are in many other parts of the country. If you strip away the emotional rhetoric and actually consider the facts you may begin to see how some of this will benefit the population. You may not notice but we are in a recession at the moment and public spending is inevitably going to be cut – the reason for this is that no one wants to pay more tax yet wants all the services retained. Also Medics need to see a certain number of cases per year to remain competent to carry out procedures – especially in specialties such as emergency medicine. That therefore means that in order to ensure high standards, services would need to be consolidated so that they can get this experience. You then get a choice – do you want a 5 minute journey to a hospital where the doctors aren’t as experienced and you may not make it OR a 15 minute journey to a specialist centre where you probably will?

Unfortunately there are also many ill informed comments when it comes to the NHS. Everyone cries we need a local hospital yet won’t pay the additional taxes needed to fund them. Then when cuts are made there is ill informed moaning (usually directed at the legions of managers that could be culled – look it up – NHS management accounts for approx 7% of workforce. Average comparable company in the private sector = 15% management). In the past this is the sort of comment that gets politicians attention and we get around 20 years of faffing on cutting management without actually considering what services are required and then realising that it is needed to actually run the service. If politicians of all colours had actually looked at the services and what was needed rather than pandering to ill informed comment it is highly likely that the NHS would not be in the state it is in today.

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“You may not notice but we are in a recession at the moment and public spending is inevitably going to be cut – the reason for this is that no one wants to pay more tax yet wants all the services retained.”

No, the reason for this is a gutless so-called ‘Labour’ government that will cut public services before tackling tax evasion and will look on complacently as the wealth gap widens.

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