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March 1, 2007
Private healthcare; not likely
The paper is out today and we have some amazing deals in both editions. In Harrow we have fantastic offers on a number of top restaurants including Incanto in Harrow on the Hill, Friends in Pinner and Playgolf's Amano restaurant. In the Wembley edition we are giving away 1,000 tickets for residents to look around Wembley Stadium.
In the end I decided readers should be able to see the yam in all its glory. If you want to see it it's on page three of the Harrow edition.
I was very interested to see the Harrow Times front page exclusive this morning and at first glance was concerned we had missed a great story.
On reading further I believe it was a brave decision to publish on the basis of two sources, no apparent documentation and very strong denials from both organisations involved. The gist of the story is that Harrow and Hillingdon PCTs could merge and would then be opened up to tender to an American company which may even bring in private health insurance.
This would fly in the face of everything the NHS stands for and would probably cause rioting in the streets. I can't imagine it ever happening and wonder how responsible it is to worry people unnecessarily.
Posted by lcoulson at March 1, 2007 9:50 AM
Comments...
what will be interesting will be to see if this does actually happen. Just because organisations deny things doesn't mean they don't happen - that's just naive. Maybe the Observer should stop concentrating on yams and focus on important issues that really matter to residents, like the state of our hospitals.
Comment posted by: simon at March 1, 2007 12:15 PM
what will be interesting will be to see if this does actually happen. Just because organisations deny things doesn't mean they don't happen - that's just naive. Maybe the Observer should stop concentrating on yams and focus on important issues that really matter to residents, like the state of our hospitals.
Comment posted by: simon at March 1, 2007 12:18 PM
I didn't realise the Harrow Observer was such a big brother state, where only positive comments about the paper get posted.
Having not seen my message put up on the site yesterday, all I can think is the Observer does not actually speak for the residents it is supposed to write for.
Shameful.
Comment posted by: simon at March 2, 2007 10:01 AM