Monday, October 16, 2006
Nazification of England
The Times reports here on spread of hospital closures under the (NHS is safe in our hands) Labour regime.
According to the article: "There are 62 closed or at-risk hospitals in Conservative constituencies and 8 in Liberal Democrats seats, with 11 in Labour areas." So 70 in non-Labour areas and 11 in Labour areas.
Of hospitals closed this year, (from the article) according to the Community Hospitals Association, 5 are in Conservative areas, 4 in Liberal ones and 1 in a Labour area so a 9:1 ratio.
Anyway we don't need to worry because: "The Department of Health has consistently denied that political considerations reflect policy-making." Oh so that's all right then the 9:1 ratio is purely a coincidence.
"However, a spokesman for the department said that some community hospitals could not cope with the challenge of the modern NHS and would close. The spokesman insisted that ministers had no ability to chose directly which hospitals closed and which stayed open." It's clearly much harder for hospitals in non Labour areas to "... cope with the challenge of the modern NHS ..." (why this is, isn't explained) so it's only natural they should close. Again nothing to worry about. Strangely no word on decreased taxes in these areas, what a surprise.
"Sources close to Ms Hewitt said: “The reality is that a lot of these hospitals are not particularly strong on state-of-the-art healthcare." I think they mean art-of-the-state not state-of-the-art.
It seems clear to me that hospitals are inappropriate for non-Labour areas and a new form of "health camp" should be introduced which could efficiently provide solutions for non-Labour health issues.
According to the article: "There are 62 closed or at-risk hospitals in Conservative constituencies and 8 in Liberal Democrats seats, with 11 in Labour areas." So 70 in non-Labour areas and 11 in Labour areas.
Of hospitals closed this year, (from the article) according to the Community Hospitals Association, 5 are in Conservative areas, 4 in Liberal ones and 1 in a Labour area so a 9:1 ratio.
Anyway we don't need to worry because: "The Department of Health has consistently denied that political considerations reflect policy-making." Oh so that's all right then the 9:1 ratio is purely a coincidence.
"However, a spokesman for the department said that some community hospitals could not cope with the challenge of the modern NHS and would close. The spokesman insisted that ministers had no ability to chose directly which hospitals closed and which stayed open." It's clearly much harder for hospitals in non Labour areas to "... cope with the challenge of the modern NHS ..." (why this is, isn't explained) so it's only natural they should close. Again nothing to worry about. Strangely no word on decreased taxes in these areas, what a surprise.
"Sources close to Ms Hewitt said: “The reality is that a lot of these hospitals are not particularly strong on state-of-the-art healthcare." I think they mean art-of-the-state not state-of-the-art.
It seems clear to me that hospitals are inappropriate for non-Labour areas and a new form of "health camp" should be introduced which could efficiently provide solutions for non-Labour health issues.
