Posted on 12/21/2009 8:05:15 AM PST by sodpoodle
The human cost of the region’s over-stretched health service has been laid bare as it was revealed almost 1,200 operations were cancelled in the last year at Norfolk’s flagship hospital for non-clinical reasons.
A shortage of beds was the main reason for the cancellations, which does little to allay fears that the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is stretched to breaking point.
The statistics, which were obtained under a Freedom of Information request, showed some months experienced a much higher number of cancelled operations than others. In January there were 256 cancellations, going down to just 33 in August and rising again to 210 in October – in total 1,171 operations.
N&N bosses have said the number of cancelled operations is “small” in relation to the number of patients they treat but health campaigners said this was “not acceptable”.
(Excerpt) Read more at edp24.co.uk ...
It shall be called HELLth!
(Be sure to read the complete article)
Chains you can believe in.
The reason for this debacle - NO COMPETITION!!!!
When everything is left to lazy, irresponsible government bureaucrats - this is the end result - failure.
We’ll see a reduction in new hospital facilities & medical research in the US as soon as funding is curtailed, controlled and confiscated by government employees.
When this comes our way, and it will, the shortage of beds will just become a platform...another item to promise the sheople, for politicians to run on. The vote buying power of promises that will come about due to socialized medicine are huge and not fully realized.
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