Thousands of pounds from Suffolk’s healthcare budget will be spent on an information campaign designed to reassure people about heart attack care, it emerged today.

The move is designed to restore trust in the health service which has been forced to apologise for failing to tell patients about the significant changes to their healthcare.

NHS Suffolk, the Primary Care Trust (PCT) will be spending more than £10,000 of its communications budget defending the changes, instigated by the East of England Specialist Commissioning Group and the Strategic Health Authority (SHA)

Ben Gummer, the prospective parliamentary candidate for Ipswich, said: “I don’t think it’s acceptable that the PCT is to pick up the bill to put right what the SHA got wrong.”

8th July 2009