Questions raised over details of cross border NHS plan

Is this a comment by an angry resident?

The cross border plan will be what ALL cross border plans with England are. WE will have to cross the border because our money will be spent to improve England’s NHS. In every. Single. Case

My husband was referred to cardiology by his GP in Swansea Bay UHB last year. He received a letter acknowledging the referral and stating that he could be sent an appointment anywhere in Cymru or in South West England. The appointment later received was actually with the regional team covering SBUHB and Cwm Taf UHB.

The Red Queen...

Welsh Labour has been at the helm of the Welsh NHS for 25 years. We shouldn't even be at the point where patients need to travel to use English facilities when we should have the capacity ourselves. Why hasn't Welsh Labour built sufficient hospitals to serve those patients in the North of Wales let alone train enough doctors & consultants to cope with the current crisis we face? It's not that they haven't had enough time let alone money, although they continually blame the Tories for underfunding Wales but when they are in power by never seem to right any wrongs. Just look at their refusal to give Wales the £4 billion denied with HS2. Imaging what good that could do for our NHS. Labour are a bad as the Conservatives. I wish voters in Wales realised this? Ignorance can never be a defense. Also, I can recall years ago when families in the North were forced to give birth to their babies in Chester because there wasn't sufficient natal units here. Has this changed? I don't think so. You've still got patients in Mid & North Wales who attend English hospitals still where the Senedd pay the English NHS to use their facilities. I know in the recent past there was some English NHS board complaining it wasn't getting enough money and said it wouldn't treat Welsh patients anymore until the Welsh Labour Government stumped up more money. So besides Welsh patients being held hostage by the English NHS, Wales hemorrhages vast sums of money over the border thanks to a lack of historic Whitehall & Welsh Labour hospital infrastructure build. With that said. I do know a lot of infrastructure wasn't built by previous Tory & Labour governments who deliberately centered specialist units in Liverpool , Birmingham so forcing patients in Mid & North Wales to go across the border when they should have been treated within Wales itself? Any modern European country should have it's own hospitals , specialists & medical facilities to serve its own population. We are not some third world county being part of the so-called 5 or 6th largest economy in the world, although the Tories have been desperately trying to turn Wales into one. The evidence. The Welsh Tories wanted , and still do, Wales not to have its own International Airport in Cardiff. They were happy to see it fir and jobs and money to to Bristol Airport, certainly on the South. Their plan would replicate the North where passengers have always travelled to English regional hubs because infrastructure i.e airport has never been built, bit like hospitals . And we would join only one other country without an airport let alone an international airport . Andorra. Enough said. A thing to ponder. The positives of devolution. Do we know that until 2005 Wales was the only part of the UK that didn't have its own designated Children's Hospital.? Not once did the UK Government ever consider building Wales one. Never. And we wonder why the Welsh NHS struggles when the capacity isn't there because it was never there in the bloody first place thanks to past labour & Conservative governments. The appeal for a Children's Hospital for Wales began in 2000. And It took celebrities like Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church , Catherine Zeta Jones & Michael Douglas including English Cricketer Ian Botham who did charity walks to raise enough funding which was matched by Heath Minister Edwina Hart & Welsh Labour to create the very first and only children's hospital , the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales, that opened in 2005 to serve a population of 3.2 million . Remember, Northern Ireland is half the size & population had a hospital some 121 years before Wales did. Ponder that thought all you unionist dolts. Note: England has 32, yes 32, Children's Hospitals. England first Children's Hospital opened its doors in 1852. Scotland has 3 children's Hospitals. The very first was the, The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, which opened its doors in 1860. Northern Ireland has 1 Children's Hospital. The Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children opened its doors in 1873. Trivia: Although I might add, Northern Ireland , or Ulster, wasn't even a country when it opened being a province of the then Ireland of Ireland before it's partition and the Republic of Ireland gaining its independence. So anyone who foolish enough to argue with me how wonderful this false United Kingdom is for Wales when numerous Westminster Conservative & Labour governments, besides raping Wales of its natural resources, deliberately built hospitals over the border rather than in Wales will end up with their tails firmly between their legs.