March 06, 2005
Great Ormond Street forced to turn away ill children
Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has had to close up to one-fifth of its its beds, cancel operations and turn away dozens of critically ill children because of the severe financial problems it faces.
Could there be a more potent symbol of the problems in the NHS than this? Decades of underfunding, systematic inefficiencies that neither party seems to be able to address...
This is the modern face of health care rationing. And who pays? The kids, and the nurses, who have been asked to take a £5/hour pay cut.
Not exactly a shining example of Labour competence, is it??
Posted in: Dismay
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