Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Admin bloat. Core business abandoned years back. Much admin now political commissariat enforcing progressive orthodoxies.
More money the last thing it needs: total strip back and refocus required.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I don't think any of the two major parties will look at the best for the NHS
It will stumble along
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
I expect this will upset some but so called care in the community in far too many cases is simply a drain on valuable resources, there are some people who would be safer in a more suitable environment rather than at home.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I'm interested Bob what would you do to improve the NHS?
Or do think there's not a need for it now ?
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
that keith would be a step backwards
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Brian Dixon wrote:it would be nice to have a face 2 face with a GP
Try this, BD:
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
You gotta laugh?
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
Bob .
What would your idea be for the NHS?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
I know far too little about the NHS (the eighth largest employer on the planet according to Wikipedia) to do other than to point out minor problems.
The last time it was looked at 'properly' was under a Royal Commission on the National Health Service which was set up by the Wilson government in 1975.
It was to consider the "best use and management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS" and took four years to report (by which time there had been a change of government!)
I suggest it needs another Royal Commission after more than half a century.
We need to be realistic about funding, the choice is not between 'our wonderful NHS' and the USA.
Most countries have provision of 'universal health care' and none of them has copied our model, most being funded by a mixture of private insurance and tax.
We also need to be realistic about just how much money we are willing to spend to improve or extend peoples' lives by how much.
If we spent 100% of GDP on health care, there would still be room for 'improvements' on treatments and provision.
However good the health service is everybody ends up dead.
The quicker a Royal Commission is set up the quicker it might report.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,073
Its the best in the world unless you go private but even then you might see the same Drs.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
victor matcham wrote:Its the best in the world unless you go private but even then you might see the same Drs.
10th best possibly?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/best-healthcare-in-the-world
or 16th?
https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/rankings_by_country.jsp"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Messenger just in: far more must be done to improve equality in the NHS and stop barriers to progress and this [means] equipping leaders with the right skills and doing away with the plethora of equality, diversity and inclusion roles which have sprung up.
I haven't read the report but I suspect what he's arguing is that equality should be in a leader's DNA and, if so, I have some sympathy with that view. Mr Javid agreed, saying "In my view there are already too many working in roles focused solely on diversity."
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
Bob
Obviously with so many MPs holding interests in private medicine , some being paid to promote it, slowly it's being sold off.
In years to come it won't be recognised .
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,255
Keith Sansum1 wrote: In years to come it won't be recognised .
Nor should it be!
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Arte et Marte
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I hope we are not going to dismantle the NHS
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,255
I hope not either Keith, but it needs drastically overhauling from where it is currently. It's barely fit for purpose now, how it is in 10yrs time I dread to think.
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Arte et Marte
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I agree
Danger is there are those out there after quick profits
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
I found this worth a listen:-
The Briefing Room Radio 4
What's wrong with the NHS, and how do we fix it?
The UK spends nearly £200bn on health and social care. Yet the perception has been that things have got worse. Have they? If so, how much worse? And what might we do differently?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001813gRoss Miller likes this
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
Utterly disgraceful. I don't what what this country's coming to.
Surely everyone knows you pull
your own teeth out with
string; whereas you pull
someone else's teeth out with pliers.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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