The NHS is already partly privatised in all but name, and it’s just chucking money in the bin.
Staff the fvcker properly, it’s as simple as that.
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 minutes ago
They've also announced a publicly owned green energy company. Not really something a party who don't believe public ownership would do.
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Promising, certainly. One they deserve credit for in principle
But I believe the investment currently earmarked (circa £8bn over five years) would represent just over 1% of the UK energy market’s capitalisation; and given the high level terms they’ve set out, it looks like a good chunk of that cash injection is going to be handed straight to the private sector.
I’d like to know, for example, where they’ve said their green energy project will create 650,000 jobs, how many of those people they see directly employed by GBE in five years’ time?
I also had to go private for a hernia op, I made the plunge when the GP said the NHS can't step in until it was life threatening but not to worry because mine didn't look to far away from that
Also it's not Thatcherite at all FFS, using the private sector to bring catastrophic waiting lists down is not the same as selling it off
You can raise your concerns without throwing ignorant killer statements around
comment by Robbing Hoody - I want to play by my own rules and if I can’t I’ll sue you (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
The NHS is already partly privatised in all but name, and it’s just chucking money in the bin.
Staff the fvcker properly, it’s as simple as that.
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comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 2 minutes ago
I actually agree with Tory Wes about bringing a bit more privatisation to bring down waiting lists for the NHS, I’ve been a frequent user of hospitals in the last 2 years because my daughter and wife have the immune system of a 120 year old tortoise.
The NHS is a facking shambles and something has to change, if that means bringing privatisation in to help folk out then do it. It can’t go running the same way it has been for the last 15 years. It’s dead.
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Pure Thatcherite policy. You realise that, right?
I mean, that’s OK, if that’s your opinion. I’d just be a little surprised given all you’ve said about Thatcher and the privatisation of public services previously.
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What else is there left though? The system is a joke, my wife has an infection and the doctors have no idea where it’s coming from.
They told her to go home and wait for an appointment for a camera to be shoved down her throat, we got a letter yesterday in the NHS app telling us they can see her in OCTOBER and the appointment is with the surgical team. WTF has a surgeon got to do with it??
And they expect her to sit with this infection for 4 months, and come into A&E every single time if her situation worsens. She’s recovering from gall bladder surgery as well. I genuinely believe we could get better health care from our parents countries.
Three charts on homelessness in Britain
1. The UK leads the G7 in homelessness
2. Rough sleeping has doubled under the Conservatives since 2010
3. Homelessness levels in the UK have hit a record high
https://x.com/alexwickham/status/1803349650654589440?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 10 minutes ago
I also had to go private for a hernia op, I made the plunge when the GP said the NHS can't step in until it was life threatening but not to worry because mine didn't look to far away from that
Also it's not Thatcherite at all FFS, using the private sector to bring catastrophic waiting lists down is not the same as selling it off
You can raise your concerns without throwing ignorant killer statements around
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Get your facts right:
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/thatcher-nhs-outsourcing-wave
An Endoscopy will absolutely be done by the surgical team, they’re going to slide a camera about three feet into her body!
But it’ll be a nurse practitioner that conducts it.
Gotta say people slating the NHS absolutely boils my p!ss (not saying you are). They are paid terribly, are horrifically under funded, lack equipment and are massively under staffed and over worked. They are the best of us in the main.
That’d cost at least a grand in the US fwiw.
comment by Robbing Hoody - I want to play by my own rules... (U6374)
posted 7 minutes ago
An Endoscopy will absolutely be done by the surgical team, they’re going to slide a camera about three feet into her body!
But it’ll be a nurse practitioner that conducts it.
Gotta say people slating the NHS absolutely boils my p!ss (not saying you are). They are paid terribly, are horrifically under funded, lack equipment and are massively under staffed and over worked. They are the best of us in the main.
That’d cost at least a grand in the US fwiw.
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I’m grateful for everything they do for us, I completely understand they’ve been thrown to the dogs by these Tory waaaankers.
I love the NHS and think it’s probably one of the best things ever created by the British but since I’ve been back in Oz I do in some ways prefer how it’s done here.
We can get a doctors appointment the same day and also a dentist one too. There are many free doctors that claim our appointment money back from the government so we don’t pay in advance but if we go to a more ‘posh’ GP we pay around $100 and can claim a chunk of that back a couple of days later to our Medicare card account.
So yes we do sometimes pay but the service is great. I haven’t once missed the NHS model since I’ve been here especially as before Covid when I was in the UK I had to wait at best a week to get a GP appointment unless I was lucky enough to get a same day 8am cancellation appointment.
What do people think is the best way to modernise the NHS? Should it always be 100% free at point of entry? Or are there perhaps ways where you can pay to get a sooner appointment but it’s always free if you can wait a week?
Recent #Survation poll
REF - 30.73%
CON - 29.44%
LAB - 27.59%
GREEN - 6.19%
LIBDEM - 4.77%
That’s some close 3 way tie.
I hate to say this but this is where the Greens and Libs should be standing aside.
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 10 minutes ago
I also had to go private for a hernia op, I made the plunge when the GP said the NHS can't step in until it was life threatening but not to worry because mine didn't look to far away from that
Also it's not Thatcherite at all FFS, using the private sector to bring catastrophic waiting lists down is not the same as selling it off
You can raise your concerns without throwing ignorant killer statements around
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Get your facts right:
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/thatcher-nhs-outsourcing-wave
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At no point does that article state that Thatchers intention was to bring waiting lists down, she was interested in cost cutting
When she took office the waiting list was under 1 millions it remained under or just over until the mid noughties. It's now around 8million and people are dying unnecessarily as a result
The proof will be in the pudding but I highly doubt this or any Labour govt intends to privatise through the back door. Long term of course funding and reform through modernisation is key to bringing it back to health but do you really want to see peoples lives and health come to detriment because you're ideologically opposed to the private sector being used by govt
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 2 minutes ago
I actually agree with Tory Wes about bringing a bit more privatisation to bring down waiting lists for the NHS, I’ve been a frequent user of hospitals in the last 2 years because my daughter and wife have the immune system of a 120 year old tortoise.
The NHS is a facking shambles and something has to change, if that means bringing privatisation in to help folk out then do it. It can’t go running the same way it has been for the last 15 years. It’s dead.
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Pure Thatcherite policy. You realise that, right?
I mean, that’s OK, if that’s your opinion. I’d just be a little surprised given all you’ve said about Thatcher and the privatisation of public services previously.
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What else is there left though? The system is a joke, my wife has an infection and the doctors have no idea where it’s coming from.
They told her to go home and wait for an appointment for a camera to be shoved down her throat, we got a letter yesterday in the NHS app telling us they can see her in OCTOBER and the appointment is with the surgical team. WTF has a surgeon got to do with it??
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Privatisation is already part of the NHS through PFI.
For me, the issues are how it’s being run (not that it’s easy task by any means) and the huge increase in population over a short space of time. In my lifetime, we probably have around 20,000,000 more people and people living longer also. Add all of that together, along with cuts made 2010-present, and you get a mess.
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 10 minutes ago
I also had to go private for a hernia op, I made the plunge when the GP said the NHS can't step in until it was life threatening but not to worry because mine didn't look to far away from that
Also it's not Thatcherite at all FFS, using the private sector to bring catastrophic waiting lists down is not the same as selling it off
You can raise your concerns without throwing ignorant killer statements around
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get your facts right:
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/thatcher-nhs-outsourcing-wave
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At no point does that article state that Thatchers intention was to bring waiting lists down, she was interested in cost cutting
When she took office the waiting list was under 1 millions it remained under or just over until the mid noughties. It's now around 8million and people are dying unnecessarily as a result
The proof will be in the pudding but I highly doubt this or any Labour govt intends to privatise through the back door. Long term of course funding and reform through modernisation is key to bringing it back to health but do you really want to see peoples lives and health come to detriment because you're ideologically opposed to the private sector being used by govt
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thatcher’s plan for the NHS was never to sell off all of its infrastructure or service provision; it was to privatise by opening up contracts for the delivery of a greater share of more and more NHS services to the market.
I am not ideologically opposed to the private sector being used by government to the extent that I would want to see the prohibition of such in the NHS.
What I am against is burning more and more and more money to the detriment of the NHS itself when there are even shorter term alternatives available, like legislating to control fees, keeping UK-trained junior doctors out of the private sector for longer, mandating that private practitioners contracting with the NHS perform more public sessions, and staffing the service properly.
A Tory cabinet minister has admitted his party is toast about time some of them got their heads out their backside
https://x.com/mrharrycole/status/1803361706195706030?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
All those things should happen in conjunction with a quicker fix of using the private sector to bring down the waiting lists
Staffing issues can't just be solved overnight, it takes a long time to train doctors and nurses
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 13 minutes ago
All those things should happen in conjunction with a quicker fix of using the private sector to bring down the waiting lists
Staffing issues can't just be solved overnight, it takes a long time to train doctors and nurses
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It takes a long time to train them, it takes about a week to recruit them.
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - I want to play by my own rules... (U6374)
posted 7 minutes ago
An Endoscopy will absolutely be done by the surgical team, they’re going to slide a camera about three feet into her body!
But it’ll be a nurse practitioner that conducts it.
Gotta say people slating the NHS absolutely boils my p!ss (not saying you are). They are paid terribly, are horrifically under funded, lack equipment and are massively under staffed and over worked. They are the best of us in the main.
That’d cost at least a grand in the US fwiw.
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I’m grateful for everything they do for us, I completely understand they’ve been thrown to the dogs by these Tory waaaankers.
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I get this done every 2 years and it’s €1700 a go over here
Without private health insurance I’d be fooked
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 15 minutes ago
All those things should happen in conjunction with a quicker fix of using the private sector to bring down the waiting lists
Staffing issues can't just be solved overnight, it takes a long time to train doctors and nurses
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https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/nhs-workforce-nutshell#:~:text=than%2024%2C000%20dentists.-,Change%20in%20workforce%20numbers%20over%20time,each%20associated%20with%20different%20trends.
A good breakdown on numbers and where the numbers have increased and by how much.
Not sure how easy it would be to break off from them, but one major thing would probably be to stop using contractors who deliberately mark up any job they have to do when it comes to building management.
I've heard several stories akin to these guys charging the best part of £200 to replace 1 tube light.
The amount of money wasted on things like that must be absurd.
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 3 seconds ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 15 minutes ago
All those things should happen in conjunction with a quicker fix of using the private sector to bring down the waiting lists
Staffing issues can't just be solved overnight, it takes a long time to train doctors and nurses
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https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/nhs-workforce-nutshell#:~:text=than%2024%2C000%20dentists.-,Change%20in%20workforce%20numbers%20over%20time,each%20associated%20with%20different%20trends.
A good breakdown on numbers and where the numbers have increased and by how much.
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Be interested to know where they got their data (and who paid for this) because 40k nurses left the NHS in 2022.
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 37 seconds ago
Not sure how easy it would be to break off from them, but one major thing would probably be to stop using contractors who deliberately mark up any job they have to do when it comes to building management.
I've heard several stories akin to these guys charging the best part of £200 to replace 1 tube light.
The amount of money wasted on things like that must be absurd.
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When I was a staff nurse it was £60 a light bulb and £25 for tympanic covers which is just a joke.
I really don’t know why the Government doesn’t just make its own drugs either. You’re the Government, drugs companies make billions, just do it yourself.
comment by Robbing Hoody - I want to play by my own rules and if I can’t I’ll sue you (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 37 seconds ago
Not sure how easy it would be to break off from them, but one major thing would probably be to stop using contractors who deliberately mark up any job they have to do when it comes to building management.
I've heard several stories akin to these guys charging the best part of £200 to replace 1 tube light.
The amount of money wasted on things like that must be absurd.
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When I was a staff nurse it was £60 a light bulb and £25 for tympanic covers which is just a joke.
I really don’t know why the Government doesn’t just make its own drugs either. You’re the Government, drugs companies make billions, just do it yourself.
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100%.
It is absolutely unexplainable that any nation the size of the UK doesn’t have its own publicly-owned generics manufacturer.
It would save the public purse literally billions each year.
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posted on 19/6/24
The NHS is already partly privatised in all but name, and it’s just chucking money in the bin.
Staff the fvcker properly, it’s as simple as that.
posted on 19/6/24
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 minutes ago
They've also announced a publicly owned green energy company. Not really something a party who don't believe public ownership would do.
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Promising, certainly. One they deserve credit for in principle
But I believe the investment currently earmarked (circa £8bn over five years) would represent just over 1% of the UK energy market’s capitalisation; and given the high level terms they’ve set out, it looks like a good chunk of that cash injection is going to be handed straight to the private sector.
I’d like to know, for example, where they’ve said their green energy project will create 650,000 jobs, how many of those people they see directly employed by GBE in five years’ time?
posted on 19/6/24
I also had to go private for a hernia op, I made the plunge when the GP said the NHS can't step in until it was life threatening but not to worry because mine didn't look to far away from that
Also it's not Thatcherite at all FFS, using the private sector to bring catastrophic waiting lists down is not the same as selling it off
You can raise your concerns without throwing ignorant killer statements around
posted on 19/6/24
comment by Robbing Hoody - I want to play by my own rules and if I can’t I’ll sue you (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
The NHS is already partly privatised in all but name, and it’s just chucking money in the bin.
Staff the fvcker properly, it’s as simple as that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
posted on 19/6/24
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 2 minutes ago
I actually agree with Tory Wes about bringing a bit more privatisation to bring down waiting lists for the NHS, I’ve been a frequent user of hospitals in the last 2 years because my daughter and wife have the immune system of a 120 year old tortoise.
The NHS is a facking shambles and something has to change, if that means bringing privatisation in to help folk out then do it. It can’t go running the same way it has been for the last 15 years. It’s dead.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Pure Thatcherite policy. You realise that, right?
I mean, that’s OK, if that’s your opinion. I’d just be a little surprised given all you’ve said about Thatcher and the privatisation of public services previously.
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What else is there left though? The system is a joke, my wife has an infection and the doctors have no idea where it’s coming from.
They told her to go home and wait for an appointment for a camera to be shoved down her throat, we got a letter yesterday in the NHS app telling us they can see her in OCTOBER and the appointment is with the surgical team. WTF has a surgeon got to do with it??
posted on 19/6/24
And they expect her to sit with this infection for 4 months, and come into A&E every single time if her situation worsens. She’s recovering from gall bladder surgery as well. I genuinely believe we could get better health care from our parents countries.
posted on 19/6/24
Three charts on homelessness in Britain
1. The UK leads the G7 in homelessness
2. Rough sleeping has doubled under the Conservatives since 2010
3. Homelessness levels in the UK have hit a record high
https://x.com/alexwickham/status/1803349650654589440?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
posted on 19/6/24
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 10 minutes ago
I also had to go private for a hernia op, I made the plunge when the GP said the NHS can't step in until it was life threatening but not to worry because mine didn't look to far away from that
Also it's not Thatcherite at all FFS, using the private sector to bring catastrophic waiting lists down is not the same as selling it off
You can raise your concerns without throwing ignorant killer statements around
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get your facts right:
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/thatcher-nhs-outsourcing-wave
posted on 19/6/24
An Endoscopy will absolutely be done by the surgical team, they’re going to slide a camera about three feet into her body!
But it’ll be a nurse practitioner that conducts it.
Gotta say people slating the NHS absolutely boils my p!ss (not saying you are). They are paid terribly, are horrifically under funded, lack equipment and are massively under staffed and over worked. They are the best of us in the main.
That’d cost at least a grand in the US fwiw.
posted on 19/6/24
comment by Robbing Hoody - I want to play by my own rules... (U6374)
posted 7 minutes ago
An Endoscopy will absolutely be done by the surgical team, they’re going to slide a camera about three feet into her body!
But it’ll be a nurse practitioner that conducts it.
Gotta say people slating the NHS absolutely boils my p!ss (not saying you are). They are paid terribly, are horrifically under funded, lack equipment and are massively under staffed and over worked. They are the best of us in the main.
That’d cost at least a grand in the US fwiw.
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I’m grateful for everything they do for us, I completely understand they’ve been thrown to the dogs by these Tory waaaankers.
posted on 19/6/24
I love the NHS and think it’s probably one of the best things ever created by the British but since I’ve been back in Oz I do in some ways prefer how it’s done here.
We can get a doctors appointment the same day and also a dentist one too. There are many free doctors that claim our appointment money back from the government so we don’t pay in advance but if we go to a more ‘posh’ GP we pay around $100 and can claim a chunk of that back a couple of days later to our Medicare card account.
So yes we do sometimes pay but the service is great. I haven’t once missed the NHS model since I’ve been here especially as before Covid when I was in the UK I had to wait at best a week to get a GP appointment unless I was lucky enough to get a same day 8am cancellation appointment.
What do people think is the best way to modernise the NHS? Should it always be 100% free at point of entry? Or are there perhaps ways where you can pay to get a sooner appointment but it’s always free if you can wait a week?
posted on 19/6/24
Recent #Survation poll
REF - 30.73%
CON - 29.44%
LAB - 27.59%
GREEN - 6.19%
LIBDEM - 4.77%
That’s some close 3 way tie.
I hate to say this but this is where the Greens and Libs should be standing aside.
posted on 19/6/24
This is for Clacton btw
posted on 19/6/24
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 10 minutes ago
I also had to go private for a hernia op, I made the plunge when the GP said the NHS can't step in until it was life threatening but not to worry because mine didn't look to far away from that
Also it's not Thatcherite at all FFS, using the private sector to bring catastrophic waiting lists down is not the same as selling it off
You can raise your concerns without throwing ignorant killer statements around
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get your facts right:
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/thatcher-nhs-outsourcing-wave
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At no point does that article state that Thatchers intention was to bring waiting lists down, she was interested in cost cutting
When she took office the waiting list was under 1 millions it remained under or just over until the mid noughties. It's now around 8million and people are dying unnecessarily as a result
The proof will be in the pudding but I highly doubt this or any Labour govt intends to privatise through the back door. Long term of course funding and reform through modernisation is key to bringing it back to health but do you really want to see peoples lives and health come to detriment because you're ideologically opposed to the private sector being used by govt
posted on 19/6/24
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 2 minutes ago
I actually agree with Tory Wes about bringing a bit more privatisation to bring down waiting lists for the NHS, I’ve been a frequent user of hospitals in the last 2 years because my daughter and wife have the immune system of a 120 year old tortoise.
The NHS is a facking shambles and something has to change, if that means bringing privatisation in to help folk out then do it. It can’t go running the same way it has been for the last 15 years. It’s dead.
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Pure Thatcherite policy. You realise that, right?
I mean, that’s OK, if that’s your opinion. I’d just be a little surprised given all you’ve said about Thatcher and the privatisation of public services previously.
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What else is there left though? The system is a joke, my wife has an infection and the doctors have no idea where it’s coming from.
They told her to go home and wait for an appointment for a camera to be shoved down her throat, we got a letter yesterday in the NHS app telling us they can see her in OCTOBER and the appointment is with the surgical team. WTF has a surgeon got to do with it??
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Privatisation is already part of the NHS through PFI.
For me, the issues are how it’s being run (not that it’s easy task by any means) and the huge increase in population over a short space of time. In my lifetime, we probably have around 20,000,000 more people and people living longer also. Add all of that together, along with cuts made 2010-present, and you get a mess.
posted on 19/6/24
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 10 minutes ago
I also had to go private for a hernia op, I made the plunge when the GP said the NHS can't step in until it was life threatening but not to worry because mine didn't look to far away from that
Also it's not Thatcherite at all FFS, using the private sector to bring catastrophic waiting lists down is not the same as selling it off
You can raise your concerns without throwing ignorant killer statements around
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get your facts right:
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/thatcher-nhs-outsourcing-wave
----------------------------------------------------------------------
At no point does that article state that Thatchers intention was to bring waiting lists down, she was interested in cost cutting
When she took office the waiting list was under 1 millions it remained under or just over until the mid noughties. It's now around 8million and people are dying unnecessarily as a result
The proof will be in the pudding but I highly doubt this or any Labour govt intends to privatise through the back door. Long term of course funding and reform through modernisation is key to bringing it back to health but do you really want to see peoples lives and health come to detriment because you're ideologically opposed to the private sector being used by govt
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thatcher’s plan for the NHS was never to sell off all of its infrastructure or service provision; it was to privatise by opening up contracts for the delivery of a greater share of more and more NHS services to the market.
I am not ideologically opposed to the private sector being used by government to the extent that I would want to see the prohibition of such in the NHS.
What I am against is burning more and more and more money to the detriment of the NHS itself when there are even shorter term alternatives available, like legislating to control fees, keeping UK-trained junior doctors out of the private sector for longer, mandating that private practitioners contracting with the NHS perform more public sessions, and staffing the service properly.
posted on 19/6/24
A Tory cabinet minister has admitted his party is toast about time some of them got their heads out their backside
https://x.com/mrharrycole/status/1803361706195706030?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw
posted on 19/6/24
All those things should happen in conjunction with a quicker fix of using the private sector to bring down the waiting lists
Staffing issues can't just be solved overnight, it takes a long time to train doctors and nurses
posted on 19/6/24
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 13 minutes ago
All those things should happen in conjunction with a quicker fix of using the private sector to bring down the waiting lists
Staffing issues can't just be solved overnight, it takes a long time to train doctors and nurses
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It takes a long time to train them, it takes about a week to recruit them.
posted on 19/6/24
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 48 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - I want to play by my own rules... (U6374)
posted 7 minutes ago
An Endoscopy will absolutely be done by the surgical team, they’re going to slide a camera about three feet into her body!
But it’ll be a nurse practitioner that conducts it.
Gotta say people slating the NHS absolutely boils my p!ss (not saying you are). They are paid terribly, are horrifically under funded, lack equipment and are massively under staffed and over worked. They are the best of us in the main.
That’d cost at least a grand in the US fwiw.
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I’m grateful for everything they do for us, I completely understand they’ve been thrown to the dogs by these Tory waaaankers.
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I get this done every 2 years and it’s €1700 a go over here
Without private health insurance I’d be fooked
posted on 19/6/24
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 15 minutes ago
All those things should happen in conjunction with a quicker fix of using the private sector to bring down the waiting lists
Staffing issues can't just be solved overnight, it takes a long time to train doctors and nurses
----------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/nhs-workforce-nutshell#:~:text=than%2024%2C000%20dentists.-,Change%20in%20workforce%20numbers%20over%20time,each%20associated%20with%20different%20trends.
A good breakdown on numbers and where the numbers have increased and by how much.
posted on 19/6/24
Not sure how easy it would be to break off from them, but one major thing would probably be to stop using contractors who deliberately mark up any job they have to do when it comes to building management.
I've heard several stories akin to these guys charging the best part of £200 to replace 1 tube light.
The amount of money wasted on things like that must be absurd.
posted on 19/6/24
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 3 seconds ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 15 minutes ago
All those things should happen in conjunction with a quicker fix of using the private sector to bring down the waiting lists
Staffing issues can't just be solved overnight, it takes a long time to train doctors and nurses
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https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-charts/nhs-workforce-nutshell#:~:text=than%2024%2C000%20dentists.-,Change%20in%20workforce%20numbers%20over%20time,each%20associated%20with%20different%20trends.
A good breakdown on numbers and where the numbers have increased and by how much.
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Be interested to know where they got their data (and who paid for this) because 40k nurses left the NHS in 2022.
posted on 19/6/24
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 37 seconds ago
Not sure how easy it would be to break off from them, but one major thing would probably be to stop using contractors who deliberately mark up any job they have to do when it comes to building management.
I've heard several stories akin to these guys charging the best part of £200 to replace 1 tube light.
The amount of money wasted on things like that must be absurd.
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When I was a staff nurse it was £60 a light bulb and £25 for tympanic covers which is just a joke.
I really don’t know why the Government doesn’t just make its own drugs either. You’re the Government, drugs companies make billions, just do it yourself.
posted on 19/6/24
comment by Robbing Hoody - I want to play by my own rules and if I can’t I’ll sue you (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 37 seconds ago
Not sure how easy it would be to break off from them, but one major thing would probably be to stop using contractors who deliberately mark up any job they have to do when it comes to building management.
I've heard several stories akin to these guys charging the best part of £200 to replace 1 tube light.
The amount of money wasted on things like that must be absurd.
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When I was a staff nurse it was £60 a light bulb and £25 for tympanic covers which is just a joke.
I really don’t know why the Government doesn’t just make its own drugs either. You’re the Government, drugs companies make billions, just do it yourself.
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100%.
It is absolutely unexplainable that any nation the size of the UK doesn’t have its own publicly-owned generics manufacturer.
It would save the public purse literally billions each year.
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