Assembly Health Minister Edwina Hart is presently involved in creating a more efficient and cost-effective health service and already she plans to abolish trusts established by her predecessor.
This is very commendable as cost-efficiency is paramount, especially as cancer patients in Wales are being refused certain treatments and life-prolonging drugs as the finance is not available and the extra life expectancy not deemed viable.
The unavailability of funds is invariably the result of waste and a lack of managerial control of budgets. One sure way of curtailing unnecessary expense would be to replace the company car park with pool cars based at strategic locations to be used as and when required.
I know that the company car scenario within the ambulance service, for example, has spiralled.
There could be huge benefits if Edwina Hart commissioned an inquiry into the issue of company cars within the health service, which, I am sure, would ultimately yield substantial savings that could be used for the benefit of patients.
John Lewis
Gower Road
Killay
Swansea
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