There are big changes in the way health services are to be delivered and Monica had to request that a Roadshow came to Abingdon as the second largest town in the county.
The NHS in Oxfordshire is calling on young people, parents, patients, carers and people who live and work in Oxfordshire to have their say on how health care is delivered. They are seeking your views on how local GP, community and hospital services should develop so that services are of high quality, closer to home, more convenient with better access and can overcome a £200m funding gap by 2020/21.
The event will be a ‘drop in’ style and staff will be available to have an informal chat with you to share ideas on how NHS services in Oxfordshire can deliver high quality care now and in the future. The Big Conversation Abingdon Roadshow will be held on Wednesday 19 October 9.30am to 4pm – Abingdon Community FreeSpace Shop, Bury Street (opposite H. Samuel).
Staff will be available to answer your questions between 10am and 2pm, outside of those times please feel free to pop in and pick up some information.
Waste, waste, waste, that’s their biggest culprit, how many times have you sat in a hospital waiting room and wondered why so many highly trained people seem to be wandering around aimlessly with a bit of paper in their hand? What for I, t? Or ambulances ( and drivers/ para-medics sat outside A & E for hours st a time waiting to off load their patient? What about the cost of interpreters our foreign guests demand? I’m told the G P surgery is charged £300 a time by the translating service each time they’re needed? Wouldn’t that be better spent on English lessons? How many thousands did they spend on re-vamping the Msrcham rd hospital which achieved absolutely nothing? Why aren’t new builds modular? To one design and of the same material? Big business, Honda, Ikea, P C world etc all use the same build type, yet go to the Churchil hospital and you see folly after folly of over the top, completely off the wall buildings non of which bare any resemblance to each other let alone a hospital, The entire system is top heavy, to many chiefs and not enough Indians !
One significant problem is the idea that there should be 98% be occupancy at all times. Anyone who has studied queuing theory at the most simple level, knows that at 90% capacity there is room to deal with surges of demand; at 98% there is no room for manoeuvre.
Don’t blame NHS staff; it was a political decision made at Westminster.
As far as translation services go; I think I might struggle to explain something as minor as breathlessness if I were admitted to a hospital while on holiday in France or Germany. How I would explain the symptoms of a heart attack I have no idea. I would be glad to have an interpreter. We live in a global world whether we like it or not and language difficulties are as difficult for others as they are for most Brits who go abroad with almost no language skills.
…”The NHS in Oxfordshire is calling on young people, parents, patients, carers and people who live and work in Oxfordshire to have their say on how health care is delivered..”
no they aren’t, they are only asking the ones who aren’t out at work.
“…They are seeking your views….” No they aren’t, as a lot of us are at work….” That’s not much use, as most of us are at work….
“…how can {they} overcome a £200m funding gap by 2020/21….” take it from the Foreign Aid budget, as it will still satisfy those “aid requirements” that the FA budget already does but is just more specifically directed. But of course I can’t tell anyone this as they make it purposefully difficult by having ‘drop in sessions’, only begrudgingly, and at massively inconvenient times.
Still….”they asked”…ticks a box a suppose.
For those who cannot get to the roadshow event, you can complete an online questionnaire. Go to oxonhealthcaretransformation.nhs.uk. We also have information booklets in our GP Surgery in Stert Street and I’m sure your own GP surgery also does.