Oh, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard anti-American and ignorant chants like that. “They look for your credit card and if they can’t find it they leave you to rot on the street”. Yes, when I was there I did notice dead bodies littering the streets everywhere come to think of it.The problem the Tories face is a good number of them want to copy more of the continental models, private insurance (government subsidised for those who can't afford it), charges to see your GP, the French model if you will.
But this means significant change to the NHS, even the destruction of it as an organisation (there is no French, nordic etc NHS).
And this meets cries of "you want to leave people dying on the streets" and "you want to make us like america where the poor don't get treatment" (which is false anyway as they spend more per person on healthcare than us).
Yes! They keep saying the money pot has been ring-fenced but if that were true why have we, (working in the NHS), seen such massive cutbacks with the loss of staff and resources galore? My department used to have approx 32 people, (not 'dead wood'), with a mixture of different skills, but a rough headcount now is easily half that. No one has been booted out, yet, but people leave and they are not replaced. With morale being so low and the work so $h1tty, ever more are leaving which exacerbates the situation further of course.And of course the Tories also just get accused of penny pinching, but think about it, why? It's not their money, they are not being lobbied by anyone to spend less on healthcare (if anything the opposite), they talk of saving money to departments or pensions, but not of actually reducing the overall budget, so doesn't this "penny pinching" accusation seem a little thin?
Said like you must also work for them. I don’t know how you know but once again you’re spot on. What also bugs the hell out of me is they’ll always find money for bailing out bankers, wars and overseas aid. Take India. I can’t remember the figure but this, (now 1st world capable of self supporting), country still gets billions from us every year; along with other countries.But, any time they propose changes, they get the above, and so plans to change the NHS get watered down, and we end up with faux privatization which could be even worse than the centrally planned NHS model.
The flaw in your argument is that the numbers show staffing in the NHS has increased immensely over the past ten years and shows no signs of reducing at all.
The RCN are a trade union. What makes you think they don't have an axe to grind ?
Quite likely; I’m just as cynical as you from the sounds of it. But, all I care about and all the patient’s care about is what care they are actually receiving.The RCN are a trade union. What makes you think they don't have an axe to grind ?
I think the major problem with the NHS is , too many chiefs and not enough indians.
Another thing,,, Why do the nursing staff have so much paperwork to complete each shift?
But that's the problem with this privatisation of the NHS...I think the major problem with the NHS is , too many chiefs and not enough indians. If you needed a life saving operation, who would you want to make the decision to allow you that operation,,, The doctor/consultant,,, or the accountant? I know which one I'd like to make the decision. (and it wouldn't be some jumped up idiot with a degree in business studies )
definitely turn away 'Saturday night drunks' from Casualty departments.
Another couple of strategies: refuse to admit anyone who has not earned the right to NHS treatment, and definitely turn away 'Saturday night drunks' from Casualty departments.
Just out of interest, would you charge a sunday afternoon footballer for an injury sustained?I personally believe, it's time the weekend drunkards, needing hospital treatment should be charged exactly the same way a victim of a Road Traffic Accident, is charged by the NHS for treatment (including the cost of the ambulance etc) Last RTA I was injured in they charged me about £35 for an x ray (passed on to my insurance company to deal with,,, but I can't see anyone insuring someone against getting drunk on a Friday/Saturday night)