This week we
attended the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for Adults and Communities, to
discuss the Governments proposals to set up new boards for the NHS, and the
monitoring by Local Councillors.
Our primary
concern is one of the provisions up for consultation. It states that the NHS
will be tasked with delivering service improvements against a backdrop of needing
to make efficiencies (political speak for cutting the budget), whilst
considering the financial and clinical sustainability of the proposals within
existing resources (i.e. maintaining the current budgets).
Now we can
comprehend cutting budgets, even if we disagree with it, and we can comprehend maximising
services within the same budget. The question is; how is the NHS meant to increase patient
services at the current budget level whilst at the same time cutting those very
same budgets?
Weren’t we
told that NHS budgets would increase in real terms??
To err is
human, but to really mess it up takes the ConDem Coalition.
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