Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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The NHS budget increase means it will represent 44% of all public service spending in 2024/25 up from 27% in 1999-2000. The real story of austerity is not a reduction in the size of the state but the NHS sucking up all the cash.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
Which must be good as a lot has gone over slowly to private providers in one way or another
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,977
The NHS is hiring 42 new chief executives who will be paid up to £270,000 each.
Political commentator Darren Grimes: "Why are the NHS hiring people on more money than we pay the prime minister?"
@darrengrimes_
https://t.co/BbmTbB3nLo"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
Perhaps because they are more competent than the PM?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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There are so many areas in the UK that are due a shake up but no politicians willing to take it on
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,819
Pablo wrote:Perhaps because they are more competent than the PM?
Going by the way the NHS wasted enormous amounts of money in the past on projects that never happened I wonder if being competent is even part of their job description.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,008
Definitely a cult rather than a religion. With religion you merely need faith, and doubt may be good; whereas with the NHS only complete humiliating submission is satisfactory.
Besides, with religion at least you get grand things like heaven and hell and decent architecture; with the NHS you're lucky to get a GP appointment or a bed in a stuffy corridor.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Weird Lol
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