Skip to main content

Children's hospital services 'at risk' from tariff system

(The Times)The chief executives of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, Alder Hey in Liverpool and Sheffield and Birmingham Children’s Hospitals say in a letter that the operation of the tariff — the list of fixed prices for NHS procedures — will leave them about £22 million a year worse off.

I do think that Labour taking on the children's hospitals is ill advised. Children's hospitals do tend to be more expensive for operations because of the additional care that goes in to handling children and involving parents.

Based on calculations that they have made so far, Great Ormond Street expects to lose £5.93 million in 2006-07, Alder Hey £11.03 million, Sheffield £2.5 million, and Birmingham Children’s Hospital at least £2.6 million — a total of £22 million.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NHS reorganisation No 3,493,233

Followers of my blog will have seen the NHS question about how many reorganisations have we had. We've yet another. The number of PCTs (Primary Care Trusts) nationally is to halve. This means merging East and North. (and then probably HoB and south). It would be nice if people would stick with one structure. There is a quotation ( Which sadly does not appear to be a true quotation ) We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. But has to have been originated by someone. The web link shown goes through the derivation which appears to be more linked to an anonymous British Soldier WW2 than any Roman or Greek General called by a name perming 2 out of (Gaius, Galus, Petronius and Arbiter). From the...
2 comments
Read more