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Originally Posted by denphone
l wish the bloody politics was taken out of the NHS IMO.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Indeed. That's why we need a political consensus on it but it's such a big issue that most governments will fudge it and leave it for the next administration.
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People always want to take the politics out of [something] but I fail to see how that really works. Politics is how we decide these things. People vote governments in or out in part on their performance managing things like the Health Service.
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.