HOURS upon endless hours of yak which has cost £1.4 million and for what? Absolutely nothing.
This is the appalling result of two years of wrangling about who gets the biggest spoils in a NHS shake-up in West Sussex.
That £1.4million could have been spent on the wards of West Sussex hospitals, tacking MRSA; relieving people of pain, saving
lives.
Instead it has gone into the pockets of bureaucrats holding meeting after meeting to decide on yet another shake-up.
All it has achieved is bringing distress to patients, anger to the public, and anxiety for staff.
Now we are in a process of waiting to hear whether Worthing and St Richard's Hospitals are to merge.
This is after West Sussex Primary Care Trust decided that Worthing should be the major county hospital.
I'm not a health expert – what I want and expect from the NHS is the best treatment when I need it at a hospital near enough to get to in an emergency. Not much to ask, is it?
What do we get? Too much bureaucracy, money spent anywhere other than where it should be.
Why on earth have we got so many Trusts, all apparently with conflicting ideas.
We've got Boards for this, Agencies for that and Ofwats here there and everywhere. Perhaps we should tell them all where they can b** off!
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