Midland Hospital Horrors

by Craig Chapman - 07:17 on 20 March 2009

The horrors revealed at Stafford Hospital this last week are completely unacceptable in a third world nation, let alone the UK. Fingers can be rightly pointed at targets and box- ticking management, but with around 5,000 employees at the hospital and patients coming and going, how did news of this situation not reach the rest of country sooner ? 

Certainly a pressure group has been involved but it has taken so long and caused so much pain for relatives and patients alike. There clearly needs to be more effective method of complaint and where a complete system failure like this is noted, action has to be far more decisive and prompt. Popular Alliance would certainly try to install such a system.

If this situation does not lead to our arrogant government getting its Teflon ass kicked all the way back to Cowdenbeath, then we cannot guess what would. No-one wants to be reading that 6 months down the line the guilty managers are being lined for other responsible jobs with obscene golden handshakes all around. Criminal proceedures should be in place already.  

The situation at Birmingham Children’s Hospital is as disgusting but is due to several different reasons. The fact that in excess of 10,000 more children were taken to the hospital during the period in question than previously, seriously asks where they all came from. 

Of course it is wrong that children are suffering through delays to see doctors, lack of beds and re-arranged operation schedules, but 10,000 ?? At a time when the British birth-rate is at it’s lowest for decades ?

Again, government directives (or lack of) have brought this situation upon suffering people who deserve far better. 

Offical reords show that 4 in every 10 (that is 31,869 of a total of 79,340) Birmingham primary school children have English as a second or non-spoken language. Likewise, 23,069 of 69,298 secondary school pupils in Birmingham have English as a second language and many of these will be relative newcomers to the city and country. The Children's Hospital has not had the opportunity to expand its capacity by 40%, hence the problem.

We now read that our esteemed Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears has earmarked £2.9 million of incoming visa monies to be spread amongst Birmingham schools, police, health services and local councils to help with the influx of service users. That figure is less than one failed banker's pay off !! Ms Bleers - you need a new calculator !!

This situation opens up a completely different kettle of fish. The West Midlands has adsorbed high numbers of immigrants, both from the EU and beyond in recent years. Accusations of racism have been regularly aimed at those who question whether our infrastructure can cope with such levels, especially as many immigrants can be described as poor and unlikely to contribute agreat deal towards the services they claim. Certainly the Asian and African immigrants, legal and illegal, generally have more children than the average British family.  

Popular Alliance detects a serious correlation here. If we are racist for being good at Maths, then so be it !! 

This situation is NOT SUSTAINABLE and us gormless tax payers are once more the golden cash cows, and the ones not getting what we pay for. 

Lastly on Midlands NHS matters for now, there have been some seriously large finances heading in the direction of certain top bods at Queens Hospital, Burton-on-Trent. Popular Alliance question whether at a time of mass financial crisis and with obvious performance strains upon numerous Midlands Hospitals, how this can be justified.

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