Rond and round the wagon train
Technology is a crucial ingredient of health care. All health care consists of human interaction, the application of technology, or mostly both. John Harvey's Video; Round and round the wagon train looks at the financial, technological problems of NHS in the district of Shropshire during 1989. Ken Morris, the general manager of local health authority of Shropshire has estimated an additional spending of L2 million over the estimated budget of L80 million for the year. District chairman, Mr. Frank Jones (also the chairman of Telfort; a fast growing new town in middle of Shropshire) appointed Ken Morri
The whole problem requires a unified approach and public support, until radical changes are made the networking will remain in a chaos. The hospitals are run and managed poorly and are not in a very good state. Management needs to gain the confidence of local people by preserving the cottage hospitals. He blames his own staff for the problems. The best solution to all this would be implementation of policies to reduce waiting list and keep the cottage hospital in operation. John Harvey during his first meeting with Ken observes that he is very relaxed about the waiting list and spending of 2million pounds over the budget. According to Frank Jones the best way to resolve the issue is by "getting rid of the health authority" this would help management make decision much quicker and effectively. s is looking forward opening a new hospital in Telfort. The operational problems are overlaid by political situations. Over the next board meeting Ken convinces that it would be best to close down another cottage hospital. Doctors, nurses and the patients are not happy with the way things are going and with continuous change of plans and they want to preserve the cottage hospital. The hospital would be equipped with new and latest medical instruments, which might help bring down the waiting list which at present is amongst the highest in the U. Poor networking had further complicated the problem; everyone is blaming someone or the other for the flaws in the system. Shropshire requires better and pointed management along with better understanding of strategy by the doctors.
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