Draft recommendations by Stafford Hospital Trust Special Administrators

[John Marwood]

 

[proactive]

Lefroy's re-election campaign for 2015 will read something like:

"Welcome to Stafford, vote for me and get a downgraded drop in clinic (but not at night) health service whilst HS2 rips through your Countryside with absolutely no benefit to you. You know it makes sense"

Unfortunately if his Labour rival gets in she will be just as inept and her government will simply carry on from where the present lot have left off.

So we are buggered whichever way, unless of course the LibDems get into power, in which case I'm sure they will find a whole new set of ways with which to bugger us all.

 

[proactive]

Is this real life, or an Armando Iannucci sit-com?

 

[Gramaisc]

Is this real life, or an Armando Iannucci sit-com?

It's 'real'. Too far-fetched to be acceptable in a sit-com script.

 

[Spelunker]

How the hell can he say that he doesn't think that he visited the maternity unit.

Doesn't he know?

What an inept bunch of feckwits.

 

[United57]

I totally agree it was the managers , the government targets , pressure on staff , it was terrible , but why is it always nurses who are targeted !!! Things have improved dratically , what I disagree with is jb continues to lie .... The vase incident was a one off . We should be proud the staff have turned that place round ,

I agree with the first part but unfortunately there were some senior nurses and a manager (who was formerly a nurse) that let all other nurses down.

 

[gilesjuk]

The bottom line is a health service has to be paid for

Either we accept that taxes must rise and we pay more

Or we sit around and watch the big company leeches continue to slide in with Government approval, privatising, and creating a pay on demand service

It's not that simple. There are national tariffs for procedures on the NHS, so if someone has an operation to have their appendix out then there will be a price paid to the hospital for doing this.

So if this procedure pays £2000 and the actual cost (staff time, theatre time etc) is £3000 then that procedure makes the hospital a loss of £1000.

Other procedures may make a profit, so it's often down to the mix of work the hospital receives.

This is the whole problem with the "internal market" system.

 

[John Marwood]

It's not that simple. There are national tariffs for procedures on the NHS, so if someone has an operation to have their appendix out then there will be a price paid to the hospital for doing this.

So if this procedure pays £2000 and the actual cost (staff time, theatre time etc) is £3000 then that procedure makes the hospital a loss of £1000.

Other procedures may make a profit, so it's often down to the mix of work the hospital receives.

This is the whole problem with the "internal market" system.

You are of course correct - It is far from simple

And 'cherry picking' has been going on for a good while now as the leeches 'take' the easy contracts

Just never get old or ill - particularly mentally ill

Unless of course you are a 'shareholder'

Trebles ( hernias ) all round!!

 

[John Marwood]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-25204655