A health service to be proud of?
| 10:25 UK time, Thursday, 20 September 2007
We'd be interested to hear your personal experiences of the NHS - is it really that bad? - because there seems to be a lot wrong at the moment.
We've heard recently of the plan to make patients requiring in North Wales travel down south rather than pop across to Liverpool for treatment. [I can be passing the 'just cook, will you!' in Liverpool city centre in 40 minutes from Wrexham whereas it takes at least three hours to reach Cardiff by train]
Then yesterday we heard of the plan to merge our managing healthcare in NE Wales - but unions are worried it will lead to job cuts and a reduction in patient services, says today's .
Couple this with further headlines this morning like , and and things start to look pretty miserable.
Closer to home there is the added concern about local facilities with places such as , near Mold, apparently facing closer, reports the Daily Post.
Is there anything out there to be upbeat about? I do hope so...
PS. You can complain or find out more about local healthcare provision from your local watchdog, .
