Patients in the UK may now have to travel further distances for health care as the NHS consolidates and merges it services...and according to the article protests are on the way...BD
Ministers are preparing for a summer of protest as residents campaign against proposals that could mean local hospitals losing specialist services to large regional centres.
Scores of hospital departments such as maternity units and cancer clinics will be closed or merged across the country under plans for a radical shake-up of the NHS.
"Patients want to be treated in their local hospital safely," Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said.
"To be admitted to a hospital 60 miles away from your home is not convenient. It is all very well having specialist centres around the country but it is not want the public want."
Lord Darzi, a surgeon, said specialist services would be moved into larger regional centres only where there was evidence to prove that doing this would provide better care
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