So its understandable that Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams would prefer voicing headline-grabbing populist "concerns" at an overall reduction in hospital beds than engage in debate on changing health care demographics over the last decade.
Earlier
this year, the Welsh Lib Dem manifesto stated that the party, if elected to power,
would be
Making sure that hospitals are seen as the last resort – prevention and community treatment should be where most healthcare takes place. We will prioritise investment in community facilities to ensure that people get better treatment and at a lower cost.
Yet
nowhere in the document is there a commitment to introduce more hospital beds. Nor is Kirsty making any such pledge now. Ho hum.
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If they want to double up then why not copy the example of former Tory health spokesman Mark Simmonds who is is earning more than £400 an hour advising a company set to cash in on the Coalition’s NHS reforms.
Simmonds, who was a minister when the controversial reforms were drawn up, is paid £50,000 a year to work just 10 hours a month as “strategic adviser” to Circle Health, the first firm to win control of an NHS hospital.
The cash comes on top of his £65,000 salary.
Strangely, there's nothing in there either which decries an overall reduction in beds. Did it take them a decade to notice?
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