THE Sustainable Transformation Plan Review Team for our local NHS services says we have a problem. If we are to maintain the current level of A&E services on Teesside, £281m in savings elsewhere in the local NHS must be found.
How about ending all our PFI contracts by which the NHS is renting back buildings and equipment from the private sector? How about ending the contract to rent back Bishop Auckland Hospital?
If this happened, I bet we’d go a long way to save the £281m.
Also the STP review team says that, moving forward, we can’t run three separate A&Es on Teesside because we can’t recruit the staff.
Isn’t that their fault? They have raised doubts about the future of some of our services.
Who would want to work in a service when there is a question mark about the future of that service?
Nigel FH Boddy, Darlington
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