Report damns Lansley ‘reforms’ as ‘calamity’ for the NHS – what does it mean for NHS Property Services and Seaton Hospital?
The government’s new report describes the 2012 Health and Social Care Act (the ‘Lansley reforms’) as ‘a calamity without international precedent’, and says that management systems and structures are ‘still reeling from the turbulent decade’ that it began. It involved a ‘costly and distracting process of almost constant reorganisation’ in the NHS.
Yet the report doesn’t specifically mention NHS Property Services, which was set up as a result of the Act, to which Seaton Hospital was then handed over – beginning all our problems. Richard Foord wrote to the new Health secretary, Wes Streeting, after the election, asking for him to look at the hospital problem – this is surely time for this issue to be looked at by the new government.
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 