Trust our Primary Care Trust
Posted by Ricky in Opinion under NHS | on Sep 09 2007
Our Primary Care Trust is conducting a scrupulously fair and transparent consultation on the options for reconfiguring health services in West Sussex.
A highly political and scurrilous campaign of misinformation, orchestrated and driven by Tory MPs and their supporters on the (Tory) County Council is hijacking the process, smothering any chance of a reasoned debate or effective contribution by people of good will. The underlying, libelous implication that the PCT is just the hidden hand of a government determined to destroy local services through mean spirited heartless budget driven cuts and closures, is intended to smear government through discrediting a highly professional and independent body, the hub of our area’s health provision. Be warned Mr Loughton, Mr Bottomley and friends, your cynical manipulation of the political process will lead to ever greater disillusionment with the democratic system from which, in the end, your own legitimacy solely derives. Four out of five voters in Adur refused to participate in the last local elections. Is it surprising?
Isn’t it high time time that voters of all political opinions, or none, those who just want to improve health provision in line with medical advances and our changing needs, took back ownership of Fit for the Future from Conservative front organisations and Tory MPs?
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