NHS must reform or die, PM to say, after critical report
September 11, 2024
NHS must reform or die, PM to say, after critical report
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w6g0gzw40o
by suspended-sentence
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And of course the solution (according to Wes Streeting) will be privatisation. I’m sure the £175k he’s received from private health firms won’t have had anything to do with that decision.
It’s so stupid how this has played out. The Tories play the bad guy and fuck the NHS up so much and then that gives Labour an excuse to “reform” things by continuing to sell off and outsource our public services. Thatcher would be proud of this lot.
My wife is a Doctor, and would quite like for it to die so she can make a respectable living lol
Private health care won’t work in the UK as a lot of workers just don’t earn enough to afford the insurance.
The UK would just be full of very ill people who can’t get back to work and subsist on government welfare. If the UK scrapped the NHS I’d be very tempted to leave the UK for another country and renounce citizenship.
Reform or die. Hmmmm prelude to something much!!??? Hate the way they treat the NHS that isn’t funded by us and that it not working properly is nothing to do with the Government and it’s continuous underfunding.
In a vanishingly rare moment of capability, he’s not wrong.
This parliament is the last roll of the dice for the NHS and the public sector in anything like their current forms. They either delivers outcomes magnitudes better than today for no further money or it’s done.
After this it’s small state all the way.
As a GP if they doubled the GP budget which I think is less than 10% of the total budget I genuinely believe half the problems could be fixed.
More funding would allow more investigations in primary. The current wait list for endometriosis is 12months. Their first appt is always a waste of time. Hello, we will send you for an MRI and see you again in 6 weeks which turns into 3 months.
Repeat for virtually every condition.
Right now GPs are not funded enough to do these things AND their actual job.
Would help so much with A+E as well and with late cancer Dx.
No doubt community funding will be given to third parties who dont have a clue and will waste more money.
>In a speech, the prime minister will respond to the report by promising “the biggest reimagining of the NHS” since it was formed, with a new 10-year plan for the health service to be published in the coming months.
Bit optimistic of Starmer to assume he will get two terms. People under 30 are going to spend the next few years learning that Labour and the Tories are two cheeks of the same arse.
Agree. For ex Tomorrow I have an appointment with a private hospital with my cash again 😞 why ? Because the referral system sucks GPs are untalented and useless ofc queues are damn long from earth to moon so while waiting you can die. Pay to private + pay to NHS = double pain but only one of them works.
Kill it or reform it. Stop stealing taxes. The current NHS is a zombie, died years ago but forgotten to be buried.
Both parties want to privatise the NHS. We need to fight to save it. I would say at least 45% has already been quietly privatised
I love the NHS …. but the sad fact is that it is the biggest black hole in the known universe. No matter how much money is thrown at it, it’s swallowed up. And not by the nurses, doctors or consultants. Just by the sheer monolith it is and management ineptitude.
Not necessarily a popular view and one from personal experience, there is a lot of waste outside of direct care (doctors / nurses). Poor performance is not well managed and there are lots of fiefdoms for entire areas that do not add value. I want the NHS to be well funded, but it pains me to see things like this protected.
What there needs to actually be. Is state wide protests for the nhs. Forget that immigrant shit
Because they are frog boiling it and lying to the public. “It’s too expensive” it can’t work now. It’s a deficit we are behind other nations.
And if actual protests don’t happen they will dissolve it gradually over a series of years, because there won’t have been sufficient backlash. And if it’s one thing that IS BRITISH it’s the NHS.
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And of course the solution (according to Wes Streeting) will be privatisation. I’m sure the £175k he’s received from private health firms won’t have had anything to do with that decision.
It’s so stupid how this has played out. The Tories play the bad guy and fuck the NHS up so much and then that gives Labour an excuse to “reform” things by continuing to sell off and outsource our public services. Thatcher would be proud of this lot.
My wife is a Doctor, and would quite like for it to die so she can make a respectable living lol
Private health care won’t work in the UK as a lot of workers just don’t earn enough to afford the insurance.
The UK would just be full of very ill people who can’t get back to work and subsist on government welfare.
If the UK scrapped the NHS I’d be very tempted to leave the UK for another country and renounce citizenship.
Shit wages.
Shit healthcare.
Impossible housing crisis.
Nothing good left in the UK.
Reform or die. Hmmmm prelude to something much!!??? Hate the way they treat the NHS that isn’t funded by us and that it not working properly is nothing to do with the Government and it’s continuous underfunding.
In a vanishingly rare moment of capability, he’s not wrong.
This parliament is the last roll of the dice for the NHS and the public sector in anything like their current forms. They either delivers outcomes magnitudes better than today for no further money or it’s done.
After this it’s small state all the way.
As a GP if they doubled the GP budget which I think is less than 10% of the total budget I genuinely believe half the problems could be fixed.
More funding would allow more investigations in primary. The current wait list for endometriosis is 12months. Their first appt is always a waste of time. Hello, we will send you for an MRI and see you again in 6 weeks which turns into 3 months.
Repeat for virtually every condition.
Right now GPs are not funded enough to do these things AND their actual job.
Would help so much with A+E as well and with late cancer Dx.
No doubt community funding will be given to third parties who dont have a clue and will waste more money.
>In a speech, the prime minister will respond to the report by promising “the biggest reimagining of the NHS” since it was formed, with a new 10-year plan for the health service to be published in the coming months.
Bit optimistic of Starmer to assume he will get two terms. People under 30 are going to spend the next few years learning that Labour and the Tories are two cheeks of the same arse.
Agree. For ex Tomorrow I have an appointment with a private hospital with my cash again 😞 why ? Because the referral system sucks GPs are untalented and useless ofc queues are damn long from earth to moon so while waiting you can die. Pay to private + pay to NHS = double pain but only one of them works.
Kill it or reform it. Stop stealing taxes. The current NHS is a zombie, died years ago but forgotten to be buried.
Both parties want to privatise the NHS. We need to fight to save it. I would say at least 45% has already been quietly privatised
I love the NHS …. but the sad fact is that it is the biggest black hole in the known universe. No matter how much money is thrown at it, it’s swallowed up. And not by the nurses, doctors or consultants. Just by the sheer monolith it is and management ineptitude.
Not necessarily a popular view and one from personal experience, there is a lot of waste outside of direct care (doctors / nurses). Poor performance is not well managed and there are lots of fiefdoms for entire areas that do not add value. I want the NHS to be well funded, but it pains me to see things like this protected.
What there needs to actually be. Is state wide protests for the nhs. Forget that immigrant shit
Because they are frog boiling it and lying to the public. “It’s too expensive” it can’t work now. It’s a deficit we are behind other nations.
And if actual protests don’t happen they will dissolve it gradually over a series of years, because there won’t have been sufficient backlash. And if it’s one thing that IS BRITISH it’s the NHS.