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Article: Winners and the losers of NHS postcode lottery living a few miles from each other ; Examples of postcode prescribing litter healthcare across North Staffordshire. Dave Blackhurst looks at why some patients are winners, while others are losers.
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- Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2009
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Examples of postcode prescribing litter healthcare across North
Staffordshire. Dave Blackhurst looks at why some patients are
winners, while others are losers.
Five years ago, a single health authority was running the NHS
across the whole of north Staffordshire. It meant the care was the
same whether you lived in Burslem or Bagnall; the West End or the
Westlands.
But all that disappeared when the then North Staffordshire Health
Authority was swallowed up by four primary care trusts (PCTs).
At its most bizarre, a health bus packed with advice for patients
could only travel around the north of the city because it was solely
funded by the then North Stoke Primary Care Trust.
Now healthcare ...