[the truth]

Originally Posted by Jarrod

The problem with here is that we have so many small hospitals, and not enough large hospitals. For example, the village I live in has a hospital but it's not large enough for any major operations and doesn't have an A+E department. North Wales only has three large hospitals and they are Bangor, Wrexham and Aberystwyth. They're all over an hour away for loads of people - including me.

We need more larger hospitals and less of the smaller ones.

probably true that. less is more often. concentrate more resources and staff into fewer bigger hospitals and youve get increaisng returns to scale and reduced average costs of running it....you could also keep the scanners, the mri machines, the blood clot machines on and operated for far more hours a day to enable the doctors to diagnose exactly whats wrong with people before treating them

the mass over burocracy is an enormous probelm, also in wales a weak press seems to allow useless burocrats continue sucking the money out of the nhs regardless of performance...ive dealt with the trust in wales and they are appalling. the ombudsmen who deal with the complaints are also a weak spineless understaffed fiasco. these are all massive issues that costs thousands of lives. the state of the nhs is the biggest problem in the UK today. everything else is light years behind in sheer importance. Id even say we should forgot even discussing most other subjects in parliament until massive changes and improvements are seen