Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Last year, the government launched its NHS "failure regime" for the first time, due to the intractable indebtedness of south London Healthcare NHS trust. With many other NHS trusts in financial difficulty, the process has worrying implications for the NHS in England.
The trust special administrator's proposed solution involves the effective gutting of a neighbouring hospital ? the high performing and financially solvent Lewisham hospital.
Under the proposals, its assets would be sold and income streams diverted to bail out the struggling Queen Elizabeth and Princess Royal hospitals. Lewisham would lose full emergency services and would become an elective centre for south-east London ? requiring costly rebuilding, and with no existing model on which to predict success.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcar...isham-hospital-closure-worrying-precedent-nhs
The trust special administrator's proposed solution involves the effective gutting of a neighbouring hospital ? the high performing and financially solvent Lewisham hospital.
Under the proposals, its assets would be sold and income streams diverted to bail out the struggling Queen Elizabeth and Princess Royal hospitals. Lewisham would lose full emergency services and would become an elective centre for south-east London ? requiring costly rebuilding, and with no existing model on which to predict success.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcar...isham-hospital-closure-worrying-precedent-nhs