Staying on the public sector theme, the news that the local health trust is facing a constructive dismissal claim from a top official has got conspiracy theorists nodding gloomily about earlier expressed fears.
Swansea’s chief executive is reported to be taking legal advice after failing to be offered a job in yet another organisational shake-up but critics claim his latest shafting at the hands of the NHS hierarchy is a result of his stated opposition to plans to transfer neurosurgery from Swansea to Cardiff. An additional claim is that the same thing happened to consultant paediatric neurosurgeon Tim Buxton - who finally won a high court action against the trust earlier this year – when he took a similar stand.
As it happens, children’s neurosurgery was indeed moved to Cardiff during the time he was suspended.
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This whole thing will go through on the nod. The consultants want the move to happen and everyone else is too shit-scared to speak out.
The harsh truth is that two neurosurgical bases so geographically close to each other will not serve the total population adequately. Without a centralised service, it will be impossible to build upon clinical expertise and it will become increasingly necessary for patients requiring specialist treatment to be transferred to Bristol. This will leave Cardiff and Swansea with residual service levels requiring a single or just a visiting consultant.
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