What a pile of shit, they want you to applaud maybe improving patient care, NOT FUCKING RESULTS!
Throw it back in their faces and ask for defined results in 6 months or have the health bosses get fired. Damn it all, if we don't speak up for better stroke survivor results no one will. Your children and grandchildren will still be screwed from their strokes. All because our stroke medical professionals will not do their jobs. That is, solve the problems in stroke. I don't give a crap how difficult it is to solve those problems. I can do that if they don't have the brains or the gumption.
http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/health-bosses-reveal-new-shake-11440613
Health chiefs claim another shake up of stroke services will improve patient care.
The
East Cheshire Clinical Commissioning group (CCG), which funds local
healthcare in Macclesfield, is planning to redesign stroke
rehabilitation services.
From October stroke care will not be
provided in the town but at specialist centres like Stepping Hill and
Royal Stoke hospital with rehabilitation services offering patients
treatment in their own home.
The move comes as the CCG has revealed it is battling to plug a £9.7m budget blackhole by 2017.
But
health bosses claim the redesign will not cut stroke services costs but
actually increase on the £3m it currently spends per year.
The
shake up is the latest change to stroke care in the town. In March 2015
patients started being taken to specialist centres instead of
Macclesfield hospital but Macclesfield hospital offered rehabilitation.
But the hospital maintained rehabilitation services.
Then in
October, the hospital announced it would axe rehab services. Since then
the CCG has spent £800,000 on ensuring rehab services are available
until this October when the new system will be introduced.
Health
bosses believe the changes could help around 125 patients per year and
cut costs by reducing the amount of time they spend in hospital
significantly.
David Rutley, Macclesfield MP, said he would be
meeting with the CCG to discuss its proposals. He added: “As I
understand it the proposals will mean initial treatment at Stepping Hill
for shorter period and then improved specialist rehabilitation in the
community. Having spoke to the CCG I understand that this will mean
better health outcomes and lower costs. And that the approach is in
place across Manchester already. However it depends on specialist rehab
services being made available and effectively implemented.”
A
spokesman for the CCG said: “In cases where existing providers are no
longer able to sustain a service that meets clinical safety standards or
are financially unsustainable, it is the CCG’s responsibility to find
alternative providers or to provide additional funding to the existing
providers. This can sometimes result in increased costs for the CCG – as
was the case with intermediate care bed based services, stroke
services, specialist nurse services and appliances.”
Other proposals to save £9.7m between now and April 2017 include stopping the prescription of some medicines.
Local GPs spend £550,000 every year on prescriptions for paracetamol, ibruprofen, skin creams and vitamins.
But the CCG claims patients could buy their own in shops for less than half the price it costs the NHS to prescribe them.
The CCG want to cut the number of GP consultations by 124,000 per year - 40pc - and the amount of GP time by 20pc.
The
CCG added: “In addition, we have no intention of reducing the
availability of GP appointments. In fact, our planned changes to stop
paying for certain over-the-counter medicine currently available on
prescription, such as paracetamol, will release GP capacity to spend
more time with patients who require longer appointments.
“This is
because our GPs provide 124,000 appointments every year for the sole
purpose of prescribing medicines that are available over-the-counter and
do not require a prescription – not the best use of GP expertise or
time. We have developed a financial recovery plan to achieve the
required savings of £9.7 million. The plan has two elements: improving
efficiency and redesigning services. We are already working with members
of the public.”
The plans are set to be discussed at a meeting of Cheshire East Council’s health and social care scrutiny committee on Thursday.
In documents on the council’s website the CCG blamed its ‘deteriorating financial position’ on a drop in funding.
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