"Award Does Not Tell The Whole Story"

Monday 21 April 2003

The Editor,
The Birmingham Post

Dear Sir,

It is astonishing that Worcestershire Royal Hospital has been short-listed for an award as the 'best hospital in Britain'.

The Sunday Times' Good Hospital Guide states that the Trust is one of the top 50 best-staffed Trusts in England, but fails to point out that it also has the highest medical staffing to workload levels for all acute Trusts in England, due to the ineffective management and flawed re-organisation plan.

The guide does, however, state that the Trust fails to see all urgent cancer referrals within two weeks and that there are delays for substantial proportions of inpatients and outpatients.

Additionally, it has recently been announced that the Trust will be unable to treat any new leukemia patients in the future.

All is certainly not well with hospital services in Worcestershire and this is especially the case in Wyre Forest where hospital services are drastically reduced since the down-grading of Kidderminster Hospital.

Malcolm Cooper
Kidderminster Health Concern

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