What are they?
The English Health Minister, Ben Bradshaw, has just listed a few on Radio 4's PM programme:
Longer waits for operations
Longer waits in A+E
NO extended GP surgery opening hours
Top down diktats ...
oh and free car parking.
I think it's fair to say the English Health Minister had the English patient in mind when compiling that particular list. The Welsh Health Minister won't be responding.
Scrap the scalpels: this is turning nasty.
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Well the English Minister is wrong on almost all counts Betsan. Our waiting times are almost the same as theirs and our infection rates are half. Carpark charges are regressive, socially unjust, insensitive and unnecessary. Get used to it Bradshaw - we have a proper socialist Health Minister in Wales........
Well the English Minister is wrong on almost all counts Betsan. Our waiting times are almost the same as theirs and our infection rates are half. Carpark charges are regressive, socially unjust, insensitive and unnecessary. Get used to it Bradshaw - we have a proper socialist Health Minister in Wales........
The decision to dispense with car parking charges at Welsh hospitals will, I fear, prove to be ill-advised.
The new policy appears attractive, but will inevitably lead to a loss of income for the NHS - part of which is currently ploughed back to assist the funding of patient-care projects.
Parking spaces will be more difficult to find as unscrupulous people will make use of free parking spaces rather than pay to leave their vehicles in the City car parks, and if there are no longer wardens, security could be compromised.
Free hospital car parking and free prescriptions, at the expense of longer waiting times and waiting lists than those experienced the other side of Offa’s Dyke may not be the most sensible or popular option in the long term.
T Banner
Pontypool
Why is this news to some people?
I thought everyone knew that the Welsh NHS was providing a very inferior service in terms of the targets referred to by the English Health Minister.
The headline grabbing, easy to implement, health reforms that the Assembly have introduced so far have gone down well with the electorate. Thats all that matters I suppose.
ADVICE!
Right or wrong...Don't "mess" with Edwina! That sharpening blond bob is like a shark's fin cutting thro the Bay...frightening!
Edwina shouting "sour grapes", Rhodri wanting to be a herring in a future life ("Cos they can swim in a straight line"); whatever next?
Thought Eddie Mair (R4 PM ) raised a laugh when he asked Tantrum Bradshaw if, "you hadn't wasted all that money on GP's contracts YOU could have had free parking in England?"
I only agree that patients and their immediate families should be allowed free parking.
We in Wales have every right to go our own way in many areas, without being dictated to by people from outside especially ones such as Bradshaw. Its just propoganda, arrogance/childish 'we are the best' attitude of England. Would he have said anything about another health sevice in Europe, as we are all part of an UNITED Europe. Why not compare health care issues with other European nations and how its funded, instead of this England/Wales trash
There is no English Health Minister!
Yep! There is no English health minister"
..and how about this quote from Carwyn Jones...
"Mr Jones said devolution meant UK administrations would be held to account by the "people who live in the countries that elected them"".
Not if your English mate. Never heard of the West Lothian Question?
This devolution thing is a mess and there will be serious repercussions. And none of us, English, Scots or Welsh will be the better for it. Don't be taken in by the spiteful, childish quarrelings of our politicians, people.
Re: Mark Edwards.
"a very inferior service in terms of the targets" ?
Westminster can be as superior as it wants on targets; charging patients' families and friends to visit them when they're ill is unjustifiable. Full stop.
Well done WAG for showing some sense of fairness and principle. What's wrong with politicians implementing policies that are popular? "Populism" isn't necessarily a bad word.