A great scapegoat
Dear Alan Johnson,
Nice try, but I’m not falling for it. One of the most consistent behaviours of the Labour government since 1997 has been their desire to jump to quick conclusions and speedily release a new initiative to make it look like they were doing something (a similar point was made to Ed Balls earlier today). I would much prefer it if you tried to understand the problem better rather than ‘putting a sticky plaster on a gaping wound’, to coin a phrase used by David Cameron a little while back.
The death of 90 hospital patients through infection is a tragic loss of life and has been covered in detail by the media. So what is your solution? Look at the funding arrangements for hospital cleaning? Investigate how hospitals decide on allocating money to cleaning? Interview hospital staff to gain a better understanding of what pressures they are under? Consult the unions for medical professions? Nope – just use the Chief Executive as a scapegoat and pretend that it’s nothing to do with the government. The moral standards of the Labour Party just keep on sinking, don’t they. Seeing as patients are not allowed to choose who provides their healthcare, we cannot just walk away from dirty, disgusting hospitals as the NHS has a monopoly in almost every corner of the country. If patients had the ability to walk away from unclean hospitals, the problem would disappear along with the superbugs as the hospital would run out of patients and funding, forcing it to close. I’m sure the Chief Executive had to squeeze the budget over many years, and cleaning and other services such as hospital food will always be the first casualties so don’t try and make out as if this lady is the only factor in the death of these patients. Even if it is found that she acted inappropriately in some way, the Labour government’s obsession with controlling healthcare services from Whitehall will still ultimately be responsible for the death of those patients.
Yours in derision,
A.Tory
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