IT comes as no surprise that David Evans, manager of the much-vaunted Kidderminster Treatment Centre, has resigned - or should I say moved on - like so many other senior managers in the short life of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Like others before him, no doubt he has found the system is just not workable, both from a financial and, more importantly, patients' point of view.
The recent sad and sorry tale of why the hospital's birth centre had to be closed highlights why the people of Wyre Forest have been so disgracefully let down since the downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital.
To also hear chief executive John Rostill describe treatment centres as "elective care factories" is a disgrace and an insult to the people who both work and need treatment at these centres.
To help ease the trust's financial mess, health chiefs now propose the demolition of A and F blocks at the hospital. Is this the thin end of the wedge, I ask, or to provide overspill parking for Worcestershire Royal Hospital?
A NORTH
Windsor Drive, Stourport
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