Alan Whittle;

Harlow Wood was closed for a number of reasons, the main one being the clinical risk of having a trauma and orthopaedic unit over 20 mins blue light from the main hospital. Techniques improve all the time and operations on more sick patients is easier, but at the cost of centralising services. what was appropriate to be done in small hospitals scattered all over once is not the situation now. Centralising and increasing the peer pool in medical staffing is the only way to carry out procedures on people who up till recently could not be treated. Yep, a bit of a bugger for localising of services, but a leap forward for treatment.

Also, the on cost of running the place, (same as Ransom Hospital) meant that getting rid put over 30% more money into direct patient care.

The reasons for closure you referred to existed in the minds of Alan Meale and the Chad. Certainly didn't exist in the minds of those trying to run NHS services.

ANYWAY

RBS bonuses?   Yeah, I don't like it, but considering how the banks are pulling the economy back on course, there has to be some incentive. Just a bit obscene in terms of the amount, not the principle.

if banks and multinationals were hanging from lamp posts, you couldn't afford a computer to type out diatribe. Think about it. Banging rocks together isn't my idea of an afternoon's enjoyment.