Stafford Hospital Inquiry - Where is BBC Question time?

Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt

Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt

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Given the release of the Public Inquiry and given the Prime Minister sees it as such an important issue as to make a statement on it (usually any statement would be made by the Secretary of State for Health), where is BBC1 Questiontime this week? Why is it in Sterling and not in Stafford?
I remember on previous occasions when there has been an important issue that impacts a particular part of the Country Questiontime has come from that place in order to get the views of local people. I would hazard a guess that there will be a "planted" question about Stafford Hospital in Thursday's programme but what do the people of Sterling care or perhaps even know about it?
The Gatehouse is where the programme should be coming from this Thursday.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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One suspects that the report will hold Stafford up as a mere example of what is really a national issue, and which probably affects Stirling just as much as us.
 
Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt

Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt

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Gramaisc said:
One suspects that the report will hold Stafford up as a mere example of what is really a national issue, and which probably affects Stirling just as much as us.
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I agree that it is a National issue but it has effects most notably on the local area - it is local people that have been effected and in some cases killed, it is local people who probably are set to lose their hospital as a result. A few weeks ago there was a report on the closure of Lewisham hospital due to mounting debts of that NHS trust - the Questiontime programme that week came from South London. The issue of NHS trusts struggling under the weight of debts is also a National issue.
As for Sterling and probable questions about Stafford coming up, Sterling & the NHS in Scotland is run through a different system and by a different Government so it has even less relevance.
 
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