Cancer Patients From Deprived Areas of South East England Aren't Receiving Optimum Treatment
...as are required. They also suggest that hospital mergers and plans of service reconfiguration and bed closures must take into account the current inequities in access to treatment among residents in deprived areas. Contact: Dr Allyson Pollock, Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, Department of Public...Trust mergers have negative effect on NHS services
... estimated that average savings resulting from the mergers were as little as 179,000 in the first year and 34...en place. However the researchers found that trust mergers do have some benefits including the creation of a larger pool of professional staff, improvements in......ber to 100-150 across England. So what would these mergers achieve? There is no good evidence to show that a structural reorganisation of primary care trusts would bring benefit to patients, write Professor Kieran Walshe and colleagues. The rush to reorganise and merge also fails to recognise that many prim...