N.H.S. in Crisis.
August 10, 2006 5:00 PM
East Surrey Hospital
Liberal Democrat research has shown that the governments N.H.S. reforms are seriously destabilising district general hospitals in England.
Pressure on hospital trusts is more acute in London and the South East where nearly one in four trusts is facing serious financial shortfalls with competition from other areas of the health service or private providers
Labour has introduced market-fixated reforms and constantly changing financial arrangements that has created great instability as trusts face huge financial pressure.
Hospital trusts face an increasingly commercial environment with competition from government subsidised private sector treatment centres, greater uncertainty as patients are encouraged to shop around between hospitals for treatment.
With trusts having to sack doctors and nurses and close wards in an attempt to balance the books it is patients who suffer from cuts in front line services.
It is unacceptable that changes made in the N H S are to often made by unelected bodies answerable only to the Health Secretary.
We need open and honest debate about the our health service.
Cllr. Graham Norman
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