Apr 16 2007
The glossy brochure industry is alive and well in the NHS
I received another four glossy brochures just today from different parts of the NHS telling me how wonderful things are - or could be if only there was proper partnership working between local Trusts, PCTs and local authorities. Apparently it takes more glossy brochures to get these parts of the public sector to talk to each other and to decide who is responsible for what!
My day was made, however, by a letter entitled “Dear colleague” from the Chairman and Chief Executive of NHS South Central. The letter wisely explained to readers who do not recognise “South Central” as their home that it is a new SHA (cue budgets for PR, new letter heads, extra recruits and don’t forget the focus group research and letter writing) covering an area from Milton Keynes to the Isle of Wight.
The whole letter was about the generation of “surpluses” in 2006-7 and 2007-8. A most helpful table appended to the letter shows that they expect a surplus of
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
It is unfortunate that you choose to discuss how the NHS ‘wastes’ money on literature when you yourself have two websites dedicated to yuor own ramblings about the state of the world. Taking the argument that NHS money would be better spent on care rather than informing patients and the public about what is happerning in the local NHS in a more balanced light then surely your are wasting significant sums of money on your websites which I am sure are read by very few people.
Stop using the NHS for political point scoring and recognise the excellent work all staff including managers do on patients behalf. It appears from your diatribe that one manager is one too many in the NHS - fortunately most of us live inthe real world and recognise efficient management equals better services for patients. Would you really like to see a situation where front line clinical staff like nurses and GPs have to take time away from treating patients to manage the NHS??