General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

The car park charges on WWL sites are set to cover the cost of running the car parks. If the charges are scrapped the car park running costs will have to come from the clinical budgets. Currently that would be the equivalent of around 250 cataract operations each year.
The move to transfer some non clinical staff to a separate company is more about the cost of managing the functions involved. Managing a £400 million acute health budget requires very highly remunerated professionals who need to concentrate on the bigger picture. Running the peripheral services, whilst important to the well being of the patients, is capable of being effectively managed at a much lower cost.
Preventing the NHS striving to improve efficiency at every turn under the bogus claim of privatisation is a sure way to impede it’s ability to cope with an ever rising demand for services. Given that the cost of running the NHS and social care is growing at a rate that is faster than the growth in the economy it is looking likely that taxes will have to rise to make up the gap, either in full or minimised by improvements in efficiency.