For anyone who’s got an interest in the NHS, it’s clear that there’s a lot we need to do about our hospitals, community centres and other facilities.
You wouldn’t believe the farce going on about funding for these developments. The PM began his General Election quite a way back by the stories about investment in 20 state of the art hospitals.
However, there’s been no money for mental health or community services and even those that have the cash aren’t ‘allowed’ to spend it because ‘them upstairs’ are worried about explaining it. Even worse, even if you can find someone outside the NHS to provide some funding, ‘they’ won’t let you borrow the money.
Therefore, local, (supposedly) autonomous bodies are letting down their patients and get a kicking from ‘them upstairs’. A classic example of one set of people having absolute power but no accountability and others having absolute accountability but zilch authority.
Perverse in the extreme.
The world of Dave Tomlinson 