Regional Health Authority pokes its nose in

Shrewsbury & Telford NHS have worked out a plan on how to cut costs and cope with their debts.

Meanwhile, the British government creates a West Midlands Strategic Health Authority with no public consultation and suddenly the board of the Strategic Health Authority - based in Birmingham and only having responsibility for Telford & Shrewsbury for a matter of weeks - knows best and decides that they can't go ahead with their plans until it's been considered by Birmingham.

More and more of the decisions affecting our lives are being taken at a regional level. Nobody wants the euro-regions and nobody asked for them.