Challenging government policy…
At the Education and Social Services
Conference in Birmingham in October, I
challenged the Secretary of State for
Health, Patricia Hewitt MP, on the
impact of non-stop changes in
government policy.
Question to Patricia Hewitt MP,
Secretary of State for Health
You highlight the need for partnership
working and to focus on outcomes.
Please would you explain the reasoning
behind the re-organisation of PCTs, and
your understanding of the impact this
will have on local authorities seeking
to work together with our Health
colleagues to improve outcomes.
I would like to compare this, if I may,
with a kitchen designer who, when the
kitchen is almost complete, sees a
better design, new technology, so tears
the kitchen down and starts again – and
does this repeatedly.
And, standing in the kitchen being
repeatedly torn down and rebuilt, is
someone trying to cook a meal…
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