Hospital gets £1m to
help save cash (?)
I may too cynical but that headline is one of the most
misrepresentative misuse of the English language. How do you give that amount of money and then
say “it’s to help save cash ?” The Royal
Glamorgan hospital has had to suffer a bellyful of incomprehensible changes
that were all supposed to save the NHS Wales money by their cost-cutting measures.
Patients and nearby residents have all protested at the
proposed loss of their Ante-natal services as well as the loss of their
Accident and Emergency Department. Needless
to say, all their objections to the proposals totally ignored and more protests
are ongoing. So, having saved a huge sum
of money making these unpopular cuts in essential services, the NHS/government are
giving the hospital £1m to enable them to make MORE CUTS !
The government’s monumental stupidity over implementing their
Programme for Change proposals have stunned the affected patients , residents
and even consultants who are STILL protesting.
After all, what was the point in wasting all the time and money on
public consultations only to ignore the 50,000 mostly negative responses - not
counting the verbal responses that were supposed to be recorded in writing by
the Community Health Councils.
Their is no democracy in Wales and, sadly, the uncaring
government will watch the death rates climb with no compassion at all, and will not accept any responsibility for their bad
policies. Failure is inevitable as is
the probability that more adverse independent reports will be ignored. R. W.
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