Health Board
Have they really balanced the books for the first time in years?
Subject to the normal checking processes, it looks like the Board might be back on track, and the pressure might just (possibly) be lifted.
If this is the case, then I am delighted, and as one of the many doubters I was not sure it could ever have been achieved, but the new, new, management seem to have achieved this.
Of course, the next big question is "How is the accumulated deficit to be recovered?" and what impact will that have on services for the coming years?
Still, I'm not going to carp. At least until the answers to the above become clear.
Update 11.30: I'm told that part of the cost savings has been to no longer have a radiographer on duty or on call at the weekends. Consequently, people with broken limbs have been told to come back on Monday. If this is true.....
Subject to the normal checking processes, it looks like the Board might be back on track, and the pressure might just (possibly) be lifted.
If this is the case, then I am delighted, and as one of the many doubters I was not sure it could ever have been achieved, but the new, new, management seem to have achieved this.
Of course, the next big question is "How is the accumulated deficit to be recovered?" and what impact will that have on services for the coming years?
Still, I'm not going to carp. At least until the answers to the above become clear.
Update 11.30: I'm told that part of the cost savings has been to no longer have a radiographer on duty or on call at the weekends. Consequently, people with broken limbs have been told to come back on Monday. If this is true.....
7 comments:
Don't worry about the Health Board Angus try CnES. The CEO has just issued a Committee paper asking them to give his wife a job!
Any chance of a copy?
Need a bit of confidentiality on that one
Total confidentiality - guaranteed
Angus - that's old news. She's been lined up for the job for a few weeks.
I have it on good authority that hospital staff are actively discouraged from calling out the on-call radiographer, for fear of incurring the call-out fee. That left at least one person with postponed treatment for a chest infection last weekend.
"come back on Monday for an x-ray"- this has been health board policy for several years unless you are so badly injured it is obvious there is a broken bone, and it becomes embarrassing to have patients self- diagnose!
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