Well, was yours one of the lucky 81?
I was abroad when it was all announced - and the first anyone seemed to
know was via a press release!
The list is available from the DOH press office, but some highlights
include:
The largest single successful bid was from the John Radcliffe, completely
to reprovide their department at a cost of £7m, 8.75% of the total
allocated.
A region-wide scheme to improve security in 9 hospitals in the West
Country has been approved /en masse/.
As ever, there is not enough money and too little done, but one needs to
ask how the department can justify an expenditure of £225,000 and
£400,000 on Kings and Lewisham respectively, both of which have recently
been modernised extensively, to improve children's facilities.
Several successful bids were for telemedicine to minor injuries units.
I am sure all those whose schemes were turned down feel aggrieved, and it
must have been an impossible job to decide, but I am quite sad our
proposal, which would have improved a badly-designed and severely
underprovided out-of-date unit enormously didn't make it through the
process.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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