A cynic might draw a bleak conclusion from the recent slew of health-related headlines in York: if you live here, don't get ill, and don't grow old.

The enforced closure of Bootham Park Hospital has already underlined failings in mental health care in the city.

Today, we report that York Hospital has been rated as 'requiring improvement'. Inspectors praised the care being offered - but raised concerns about staff shortages and the length of time patients had to wait.

Local health commissioners, meanwhile, are considering withdrawing the £4 million of funding they give to City of York Council to help pay for supporting elderly and vulnerable people at home.

The tragic thing about all this is that we know there are many hard-working health and social care professionals in York desperately trying to do their best.

What they - and the patients they serve - are being let down by is a system that is fragmented and over-complicated.

Four separate organisations are involved in trying to resolve the mental health crisis in York.

Many of the problems at York Hospital, meanwhile, seem to relate to the merger of the York and Scarborough hospital trusts, and the fact that not enough nurses are being trained.

And in the case of the council's Better Care Fund, we have one cash-strapped organisation - the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group - considering cutting funding to another to balance its own books, even though in the long run this would result in more people ending up in hospital or care.

This is no way to run a health service - and no way to look after elderly and vulnerable people.