The dreaded Dyfed option
Rather atypically for this Minister, Edwina Hart has chosen the recess to announce the mergers of the hospital trusts in Carmarthenshire. Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire. I deplore this practice of making important announcements outside of the Assembly timetable away from scrutiny and away from questions.
I oppose this merger-the so called Dyfed option and that soubriquet Dyfed really sums up the anti. The area comprising the old Dyfed is vast and people of the area are rightly proud of their local. Hospital The great fear of this merger is that will lead to new centralisation and the withdrawal of services. That is my over-riding concern and that of many others too.
It will be interesting too to see the stance of Elin Jones to this government announcement. She was once against this merger I wonder if she still is and if so will she be resigning from the government?
Peter Turner said on December 24th, 2007 at 10:41 pm:
I am horrified to see the establishment of an all Dyfed Health Trust. When I first moved to Pembrokeshire some thirty years ago to take up an appointment in the Health Service, just prior to the opening of the new Withybush General Hospital, there was a similar organisational structure in place in that all the power (and money) seemed to be concentrated at the West Wales General Hospital. Where this time will the new headquarters of the Dyfed Trust be and why, oh why have we not learned lessons from the last time?
For some reason socialists always seem to think that big is better when such an organisational structures can never provide the flexibility and innovation needed to provide an effective health care service in a dynamic environment. It is the wrong way to go.