Keir Starmer

His big idea seems to be self referral to a specialist to cut GP waiting times. As far as I remember GP's are trained for a long time to provide an important triage service to make sure what you are complaining about - bad back, head and neck pain etc, and decide whether its ibuprofen, prescription drugs or specialist referral is needed. Also GP's are in short supply and side lining the service is not the way to encourage more recruits.

I am not sure why he feels he has to out Tory the Tories when they are so disliked and Labour hold such a lead but her really is a dislikeable leader - I'll probably hold my nose and vote Labour at the next GE as a vehicle to oust and hopefully destroy Toryism for the rest of my lifetime however I'll do so with less hope in my heart than I did in 1997
 
bluethrunthru said:
His big idea seems to be self referral to a specialist to cut GP waiting times. As far as I remember GP's are trained for a long time to provide an important triage service to make sure what you are complaining about - bad back, head and neck pain etc, and decide whether its ibuprofen, prescription drugs or specialist referral is needed. Also GP's are in short supply and side lining the service is not the way to encourage more recruits.

I am not sure why he feels he has to out Tory the Tories when they are so disliked and Labour hold such a lead but her really is a dislikeable leader - I'll probably hold my nose and vote Labour at the next GE as a vehicle to oust and hopefully destroy Toryism for the rest of my lifetime however I'll do so with less hope in my heart than I did in 1997
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Something similar exists for patients able to create their own appointments with https://www.drdoctor.co.uk/

Used in 40 trusts currently including Mrs MBs. So far has blocked consultants from seeing priority patients, wasted time in the consultation describing why the patient was there, and a completely inappropriate reason for attending an out-patient appointment for something that could have been triaged by a specialist nurse (not even a GP).

Man is a visionary.
 
bluethrunthru said:
His big idea seems to be self referral to a specialist to cut GP waiting times. As far as I remember GP's are trained for a long time to provide an important triage service to make sure what you are complaining about - bad back, head and neck pain etc, and decide whether its ibuprofen, prescription drugs or specialist referral is needed. Also GP's are in short supply and side lining the service is not the way to encourage more recruits.

I am not sure why he feels he has to out Tory the Tories when they are so disliked and Labour hold such a lead but her really is a dislikeable leader - I'll probably hold my nose and vote Labour at the next GE as a vehicle to oust and hopefully destroy Toryism for the rest of my lifetime however I'll do so with less hope in my heart than I did in 1997
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The problem is obviously that we don’t have enough staff.

The NHS has been built for decades to have A+E and GPs as the point of entry, and the key to fixing the current issues is expanding those until the service is better.

Everyone I know thinks this. The solution is more medical staff.

So I have no idea why Starmer is on tv saying anything other than the Labour party’s official pledge - reintroducing the 45p tax rate to fund 10,000 new doctors and 25,000 more nurses.

That’s all you have to say.
 
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