All Change!

One thing that is certain in the NHS is that it is reorganised every 10 years or so. This last week has seen the latest alteration to the structure of the NHS in your local area.

Primary Care Trusts (in England) were merged last week – roughly three PCTs into one. This means that many people in these organisations won’t know if they have a job next year. Local health professionals won’t know who they will be dealing with in the near future and it means a whole deal of uncertainty.

Just as we had built up some good relationships with local managers then it all changes and we have to begin again – how frustrating! Of course it is the politicians in London who decide all this and for those of us working at the coalface it all seems very remote and we wonder why they want to change it all yet again.

Then again – it is 10 years sine the last change so they must have realised it was time to do something – even if it is not clear why it needed doing…….