Closed A&E = Lives saved? Are your sure Patricia?

According to the world of Patrica Hewitt, a closed A&E department is not about saving money, but in the interest of patient's health.

Yesterday, she presenting the closures as part of a plan to create “super-A&Es” to deal with heart attacks, strokes, and aortic aneurysms, Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, sought to spin herself out of the opposition to the closures.

However, as Andrew Lansley pointed out, "If that were true it could have been done before, not after, financial deficits in the NHS had come to light."

This is another clear case of the government dragging out the tired and worn out spin doctors, to try and save face, as they rapidly lose the arguement over the NHS. The problem is that we have been spun so many lines from them over the years that they simply can't be believed anymore.

After all, by claiming that closing local A&E departments, trauma units and intensive-care facilities will improve services is beyond all common sense, and totally illogical. People across the country are fighting these closures in their tens of thousands, becausee they know that closing local services and increasing journey times puts lives at risk.