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Yesterday morning I set out early, I had to visit a patient on the way to work to take an INR as the district nurses can no longer do this. Why? because they have been re-organised as our PCT (in YatH) is in turnaround. Imagine my joy listening to the radio in the car hearing of these wonderful surpluses - not Cheers Geoff On Nov 23, 2007 12:51 PM, Russell Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, I do. The fact that so many PCTs have been on "turnaround" and > yet their SHA's have generated massive surpluses (which , lets not > forget, are actually underspends, not surpluses) is appalling. > > > On 23/11/2007, Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Does anyone else find the situation to be obscene? > > The HSJ has extracted data from the House of Commons library and SHA > > Board papers for September, and come up with the figures in the table. > > What I find obscene is that the SHAs in the areas known to have the > > worst health inequalities are predicting really massive underspends: > > even if they return the funds topsliced from PCTs (have they ever been > > known to do this?) to the PCTs, many of whom are still in turn-around > > and cutting front line services, Yorkshire and the Humber, East > > Midlands, North East and North West - the old industrial areas - and > > South West will still be in significant surplus. > > What services was this money supposed to supply, and are those services > > being provided? Or has someone in the DH got their sums wrong when > > calculating allocations? > > MaryH > > > > Http://shorterlink.co.uk/13275 > > > > Projected surpluses > > > > SHA > > > > > > Topsliced from PCTs > > Total predicted surplus > > London £268m £135m > > Yorkshire and the Humber £85m £280m > > West Midlands £74m £102m > > South Central £68m £80m > > South East Coast £58m £60m > > East of England £57m £46m > > South West £46m £149m > > East Midlands £38m £114m > > North East £26m £142m > > North West £9m £350m > > Totals £729m *£1,458m > > > > Sources: House of Commons library Nov 07 (topslices); SHA board papers, > > Sept-Nov 2007 > > > > *Based on data to September, estimates since risen > > -- > > Mary Hawking > > > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments unless by prior arrangement. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html