On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:55:01 +0000, David Hansen
wrote:

The people who should be blamed for this sort of thing are whatever
the NHS is called this week. They are the ones who have decided to
build most new hospitals in the middle of nowhere, usually partly at
the behest of some senior quack who wants somewhere to park his car.

You really are a dim pillock. Here nulabor have decided to put all
regional A&E at Watford, closing other (easily accessible) units
around the area to pay for it. There is of course a minor problem
with this well thought out strategy. Watford General Hospital is in
the middle of somewhere, specifically it on a narrow road next door
to Watford Football Club and easily accessible from the town centre
(where no one lives) and local to several schools. This means that
it is impossible to reach (blue light and sirens included) between
07:00 and 10:00 and 15:00 and 19:00 weekdays and more or less all day
Saturday when the footy supporters both fill the few hospital car
parks and abandon coaches across the (one) hospital entrance. You
can however get a local bus at 1 hour intervals although the 10:00
bus you catch is really the 07:00 running a bit late.

The local ambulance service tried a number of test runs which came
back as "incomplete" because the shift change occurred before the
crew who had set out from 4 miles away and two hours previously with
lights and sirens going got to the hospital.

This is good?
--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/