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Stiletto

Dear Patient

You are expecting to come into hospital shortly, you have arranged time off/people to help with your young family in your absence/someone to keep an eye on your old folks/feed the cat/geared yourself up for a hospital stay/put in place help, for when you are discharged.

In an effort, coupled with intense need to save face and massage our budget figures so that they look good/better for our much more important than you, end of year figures, you are summarily dismissed until further notice.

Any current treatment/medication/home care that you require in the interim, as a result of our strategic/panic stance, will of course, be chargeable to you.

Yours

HSSD

In the event of a complaint please leave a message on our answer phone, we may or may not get back to you, since we are very busy putting up dept decorations, attending our Dept’s free breakfast/lunch and opening tins of chocolates kindly donated from the Patients Comfort Fund.

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Ali M

you have just had a clinical block built which is 1/3 of the size of the hospital but you have not allowed for staffing, cleaning etc in your budget. Of course you need to increase your budget each year not try and save or decrease it esp when you add to your existing building. You can see straight away what the problem is and its not rockets science. You are trying to maintain the same budget but not taken into account what else you have done. You need to increase your budget accordingly to accommodate what you have built and what is required to maintain it. Also technology changes and if you need to keep up with the changes then again this needs to be budgeted.

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Stiletto

@ Steve

Don’t hold your breath, with recent island prominence, especially on the ‘aren’t we tops’ health front, some paid by newspapers’ hacks will no doubt get onto this.

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