24 November - Queen Mary’s Hospital A&E “changes” - or in Plain English, it closes today
With
impeccable timing a leaflet announcing the ‘Temporary changes at Queen Mary’s’
dropped through my letterbox yesterday evening. It is graced with the emblem of the Plain English
Campaign and true enough, it is completely clear; it says the A&E will ‘temporarily
close’ and my dictionary defines Temporary as ‘effective for a time only; not
permanent’. So that’s OK then, surely there must be a plan for re-opening A&E?
Sadly there is not, the health authority’s chief executive, Dr. Streather, admitted
as much when questioned by the council’s Health Committee on 21 October.
Maybe the leaflet is not so Plain English after all. Maybe no publicly funded
executive is capable of telling the whole truth.
The entire six page leaflet may be read with the aid of the scroll bar.