Ellesmere’s Musings on NHS Reforms.

In today’s Ipswich Morning Star is a letter by Ipswich Labour’s favourite blogger about Mainwaring’s Musings about the NHS reforms

The letter is as follows.

I have read David Ellesmere’s last two Star column’s and I am amazed at how all of a sudden he seems to be concerned with the health of the people of Ipswich.

When Ben Gummer campaigned to save Iceni, David Ellesmere and his Ipswich Labour colleagues seemed to be completely silent on the matter. Before that, when Ben Gummer was campaigning to keep heart services at Ipswich hospital the comrades of Ipswich Labour were absolutely silent about that too.

The government’s NHS Bill is designed to slash bureaucracy and boost efficiency by switching power and money to GPs and patients. But Councillor Ellesmere claims that it is privatisation and claims to be very concerned. This is very strange because I can’t remember him saying a word against the last Labour government’s NHS Private Finance Initiative (PFI)

Because of the last Labour government, the people of Ipswich have an Accident and Emergency building 100% owned by a private company. But when the contract for the Garrett Anderson Centre that is now costing Ipswich hospital £3.2million a year was being formalised, I can’t recall him saying anything against it.