The Anonymous Widower

Closing A Hospital Is A Hanging Offence

We have an awful lot of bad NHS hospitals in this country.  My son was in one in Manchester that was terrible and should have been closed years ago. I also grew up in Southgate, where there was a ring of bad hospitals and from reports recently, one is not much better, fifty years later. But protestors still fight to keep it open.

Now we have the story of Julie Bailey and the backlash against her campaign against malpractice at Stafford Hospital. It looks like her cafe business is now going bust and I suspect lots of people will be pleased, when she leaves town.

For many years, I lived in the Suffolk countryside, miles from any hospital. But on the whole healthcare was good, as we were always taken to Addenbrookes at Cambridge, which is a large well-equipped hospital supported by a very good ambulance service.

There was a tremendous fuss, when Newmarket Hospital was downgraded, but a few years later, no-one felt the system was worse, than when it was a General Hospital.

Healthcare is moving on and more and more things are being done in the community, by GPs and even like in my INR testing, by patients themselves.

but those evil people in Stafford don’t seem to have seen this reality, hence the title of this post.

Interestingly, at Stafford in an unrelated piece in the Sunday Times, it is stated that recent data shows that those choosing Stafford Hospital has dropped by two-thirds.

May 26, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Hospitals