Re: Health and Metropolitan arrogance

On 1 Jan 2006 13:34:28 -0800, robertharvey@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Radio 5: Just heard one Michael Summers, of the Patients association,
>bulling up Mr Bliar's policies on hospital choice. "People would not
>mind travelling another one or two miles to go to a hospital with
>better MRSA rates".
>
>What planet do these people come from? Our nearest hospital is
>Peterborough, 16 miles off. The next nearest is Cambridge, 45 miles by
>road. And how much choice do we have over which we got to?
>
>When, soon, they merge the PG & Edith Cavell, then even petroburgians
>will have the choice of in-town or a 25 mile drive to Cambridge or
>Northampton. What sort of choice is that?
>

Price you pay for living where you do?? Hospital in every village
would be nice ... but
.

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