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Shabby treatment from the paper shufflers
THE Bradford and Airedale Primary Care Trust official called before councillors to explain his organisation's fiasco over the Coronation Hospital admitted it was a scrappy' piece of work. It could be suggested that shabby' was the more appropriate description of the behaviour of officials over the last 20 years with regard to the Coronation. The Coronation - however close to the heart of Ilkley residents - can been seen as nothing more that one symptom of a deeper malaise affecting the health service.
In the last few years vast amounts of money, which should have gone to patient care and infrastructure such as new buildings, have been irresponsibly wasted by the repeated and pointless reorganisations of the enormous bureaucratic parasite bleeding the organisation dry .
We have seen the monolithic Bradford Health Authority split up into local Primary Care Trusts to increase efficiency', only to see these abolished and merged, also in the name of efficiency' into the monolithic Bradford and Airedale Primary Care Trust once again. Now the PCT, presumably in the name of efficiency', is setting up local practice-based commissioning alliances, covering the areas formerly run by the local PCTs. Has anyone any idea how much all this has cost?
The same army of paper shufflers are all still there being paid by the bottomless public purse. As for the top jobs, the titles change every few months in an endless merry-go-round of high-powered health service appointments. It is nothing short of a national scandal with no-one but the patients suffering. The antics over the Coronation Hospital and Addingham Medical Centre have shown that they couldn't be trusted to run a game of hide-and-seek in the Bermuda Triangle.
1:26pm Thursday 13th December 2007
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