Hospital Closures.

[Workingman]

Anyway, back to hospital closures.....

The original idea of setting up Trusts was decentralise the NHS and make it more local. At a stroke it did away with the economies of scale when it came to purchasing drugs, equipment, food and services. Now we have an about-turn at the local level where these damned Trusts want to centralise things.... to save money.

[Kaz]

It will save money no doubt, but lives will be lost

[cromwell]

Ah yes, the old de-centralising and re-centralising scenario. I worked for one organisation for 20+ years and saw it. At one point we had 20 odd control rooms. This was to take advantage of local knowledge. Then someone came along and said if we centralise these services, we can save X amount of money. Then later again someone comes along and says we don't have the local knowledge in these big centres and we should devolve these services back out to local control...