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Good news 'H'unt has been found!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...y_to_clipboard He's urgently tackling the situation by fiddling the 4 hour A&E target figures so they look better. Good to see he's on the ball. |
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A big problem here is that simply. The NHS MUST stop giving free aid to every tom, dick and harry.
IF, you don't have the funds and ont have an address. then you DONT GET FREE treatment. IF, you are homeless. Then you can get treatment via charities. That might be cruel. But the Tories are being cruel to everyone in the UK. By cutting funds to GPs, local Councils etc etc. Local Government are at fault for local GPs cuts, to Social Care and Day Care Centres. They are closing them down all the time. What these Day Centres can provide is GP service. Which would solve an OAP that is in Hospital. They would come out of hospital, straight to a day Care centre under the direction of a GP. It is totally wrong that Local Councils say they don't have any money. Hounslow Coucil for example must make thusand of pounds EACH week from Parking and fines. When l go to The Blenhiem Centre on a Bank Holiday, people still put money in for a ticket. They claim that this money goes for the upkeep of the car park. What painting lines, you can get the Unemployed to do that as part og the TRAINING. I have been on these courses. And they are NOT worth going to. One of the roads near The Blenhiem Centre, was FREE parking. Council decided in there wisdom to put 15 parking meters there. ALL this money can go into GP services on the borough. I went to a GP surgery on Friday. And it was empty. And yet, every surgery on a Monday, you cannot get an appointment. Mr Hunt has said that the 'FOUR HOUR SLOT is only for the serious ill paitents. So if you end up in Hospital with a Heart Attack, which has to be dealt with 'within the golden hour' you might not get seen, if you start to get better. I think the whole matter with the NHS stinks. And all this to save bloody money by the Tories, so they can upkeep there Private Health Care companies. There was a Dr on BBC this morning, she came from Syria, and said it was the worst decision by coming to the NHS. And it should be made private. And the BBC interviewer had a go at the Consultant, saying that he 'maybe' lying hat that crisis, isn't a crisis. Typical BBC. ---------- Post added at 22:18 ---------- Previous post was at 22:16 ---------- http://news.sky.com/story/has-health...arget-10723517 |
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Perhaps a bus full of money from the EU is in order |
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Well people do need to stop abusing A&E, but very often its because they can't get a GP appointment. Swings and roundabouts, plug one funding hole, another leaks.
We do need to have a serious discussion about how we fund the NHS and what services it provides, as costs are going to keep increasing. We're going to have to pay more whatever, each one of us, and we have to accept that. Half the problem is people say they are willing to pay more but when but comes to them personally paying, they look and vote another way However I suspect the Government has a privatisation agenda on this. Not to worry as none of the cabinet would touch the NHS with a barge pole. |
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* It's the worst crisis for 12 years. Normally the NHS catches up on itself over the Summer but it didn't so has gone into the Winter in a bad state. * Scotland is coping relatively better because it has integrated social care with the NHS. * Although funding has been increasing, demand has outpaced the growth in funding stretching services. Ultimately, we need to fund the NHS more as we're all living longer. This could be through increased general taxation/NI or at the point of delivery. This is a big issue and I wonder if all political parties will come together on this? |
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Personally, I don't think the problems for the NHS can be boiled down to one thing. There are several problems facing the NHS:
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It doesn't look as though the Red Cross weren't exaggerating. It's not really even been a bad winter weather wise, thankfully.
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You don't want to highlight the problems in something you are trying to sell....
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One of the initiatives of the last labour government. These contracts can be 20-30 years and the total cost is eye-watering. But of course you'll never hear a left-wing luvvie slagging off good old Brown/Blair for "privatising" the NHS :rolleyes: |
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If anything taking politics out of these areas is a way cowardly politicians try to avoid being accountable for their responsibilities. Hence when we have situations like Southern where the government can point at the companies and the unions are say it's nothing to do with them when they not only gave them the contract but stuck their oar in on how it should be managed - i.e get rid of the guards. Nah, the government is responsible for running the health service and they're accountable for it as a result. |
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