Dishonesty and Elections

Currently the is a great deal of discussion over the Primary Care Trusts and fate of the West Sussex hospitals. The report that was due about now has mysteriously been delayed until after the local elections... the Gorse Fox wonders why.

Could it be because at a recent meeting of the Parliamentary Health Group at the House of Commons our MPs challenged the Government’s ‘Tsar’ for accident & emergency services Professor George Alberti about the proposals for Sussex. He agreed that a major general hospital could serve a population of around 300,000-350,000 and that leaving one major general hospital in west Sussex would not be enough. Similarly maternity departments in other parts of the hospital have been deemed sustainable for around 3000 births a year (Worthing had over 2800 last year) but in Sussex the figure is mysteriously put at nearer 4000.

It is likely that all the proposals will only allow for one major general hospital in the whole of the County... with a population of 700,000.

But GF would guess that as long as the South-Coast doesn't vote the right way, they will never get better care. He also supposes that by providing inferior health provision it will help kill off the pensioners and contribute towards both inheritance tax and the reduction in the pensions black-hole.