Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 26 April 2006.
Weston-super-Mare hospital is one of the most efficient in the country, with reference costs roughly 15 per cent. below the Government's targets over the past two years, yet yesterday it had to announce cuts of £11 million and, according to Unison, the loss of up to 60 front-line nursing posts. Given that the Department of Health has so far refused to implement payment by results, which would wipe out that deficit in a year, and has also refused to act on the problem of local primary care trust funding being £11 million below the Government's own target capitation figures, does the Prime Minister agree that this is not a problem created by local mismanagement but a crisis created by decisions made at Westminster? Will he intervene personally?
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bryan mcgrath
Posted on 27 Apr 2006 1:27 pm (Report this annotation)
Efficient Weston General?, (that is Weston General not Western General as JP referred to it in a written question last year).
Cheap and Cheerful yes, efficient no, has he ever been treated there?