Begin To Fix The NHS?

[securespark]

The neighbourhood that could hold the secret to fixing the NHS

With public satisfaction in the NHS just 21%, one area has a plan to shake up its services that could reduce GP waiting lists, as well as unblock hospital beds - but can it really work nationwide?

www.bbc.co.uk

The most upsetting part of this story (and frustrating if you've got hold of the purse strings) is that folk are going to their GP or to A&E departments simply because they are lonely.

It seems like this sort of set up could work: it's designed to keep patients well and out of hospital.

 

[Odds]

 

[fillyboy]

WAFC.

Have the decency to let a man start a thread on debateable topic without dragging it down with your ***t.

 

[Odds]

WAFC.

Have the decency to let a man start a thread on debateable topic without dragging it down with your ***t.

remind us how many hospitals the Tories have built since they made that pledge.

 

[Odds]

Fret not!

The NHS is in safe hands now.

 

[Murdochcat]

With about 1.5 million employees and countless “independent “ organisations within the NHS it’s well beyond fixing

Quite what the answer is - I really don’t know but to trust a jumped up MP with no experience of running big business seems rather far fetched

 

[denso13]

running big business

You think that should be a prerequisite for being a minister?

 

[carmanmemoranda]

With about 1.5 million employees and countless “independent “ organisations within the NHS it’s well beyond fixing

Quite what the answer is - I really don’t know but to trust a jumped up MP with no experience of running big business seems rather far fetched

An MP doesn't run, or need to run any business.

Totally different things.

But having the power and ability to put the correct systems and people in place with an oversight and target is.

There's no MP, of any party that I would trust as a doctor, or army general, or tax specialist, or teacher, but they can "run" them

 

[fillyboy]

With about 1.5 million employees and countless “independent “ organisations within the NHS it’s well beyond fixing

Quite what the answer is - I really don’t know but to trust a jumped up MP with no experience of running big business seems rather far fetched

In fairness to Wes Streeting, he seems like a decent pair of hands re the NHS. Routing NHS England and changing management structures is something he already has in hand, whilst he's going to commit more funding, he's focusing more on changing structures and reducing waste, he also is not someone who thinks privatisation is a dirty word. If if takes more privatisation to fix some problems he'll do it.
Of course, none of this will fix the elephant in the room which is care in the community or lack of. Until this is fixed the wards are always going to be clogged by old people unable to be moved into care.

 

[Brigadier]

The most upsetting part of this story (and frustrating if you've got hold of the purse strings) is that folk are going to their GP or to A&E departments simply because they are lonely.

This has been the case for close on the fifty years that I can recall.

"My doctor" when I was a kid was a sizeable old building - probably a decent private residence in its day - had a vinyl-floored waiting room with a Calor heater at one end, and was mostly populated with old folk who saw their weekly visit to the GP as a vital part of their routine.

"See you next week!" they'd say to each other, as they left.

 

[securespark]

So what we need are local senior day centres.

 

[Brigadier]

So what we need are local senior day centres.

Better familial ties.
Better sense of "community".
Different housebuilding / town planning strategies.

And so on and so on.

 

[securespark]

Woah, Silver!

One step at a time!

But I know what you mean.

 

[securespark]

Better familial ties.
Better sense of "community".
Different housebuilding / town planning strategies.

And so on and so on.

I think things have changed a lot over the last several decades regarding family relationships and community: I think many neighbours do not look out for each other these days.

If each area could eventually have one these clinics as described in the BBC article, that would be advantageous.

 

[Murdochcat]

You think that should be a prerequisite for being a minister?

Yes. The ones we’ve had in governments for decades are all pretty useless, with the quality dropping every year and posts being filled by people with PPE degrees and little or no experience of life in the real world