Local hospitals close. Local services are cut. And all over the country there are public protests. How responsive are the NHS bureaucrats to the real needs of the people they are supposed to serve?
A brand-new hospital opens in Liverpool-but it costs more to run with fewer beds than the five local hospitals closed to make way for it. Liverpool residents are angry but they can look with satisfaction to the four hospitals they have kept open through public action. They ask
Whose Health Service is it?
This is the fifth of six programmes giving a local issue a national airing.
Presented by Bob Azurdia of BBC Radio Merseyside
Made by the COMMUNITY PROGRAMME unit