"We're doing this from a clinical perspective"

I guess if you say it often enough people will begin to believe it. Why else would Simon Robbins, Senior Responsible Officer for A Picture of Health have blurted the above out at the JCPCT meeting on 3rd March? Unfortunately for Mr. Senior Responsible Officer, the people of Bexley and Bromley Boroughs and elsewhere have already seen through the mutterings of the unelected bureaucrats that are attempting to force through this APoH consultation document that many don't even understand.

The focus has been on the loss of A & E but let's for a moment look at children's services. The Healthcare Commission has given Queen Mary's a "good" for services for children, whilst PRU (Farnborough) and Woolwich both only get a "fair". Yet which hospital is going to lose its children's services - inpatients, assessment and treatment, in all 3 options? Answer: Queen Mary's.

"Clinical perspective" indeed. It would be funny if these people weren't actually deciding our children's future health care provision.