The NHS

[The Future’s Blue!]

Listened to that Vorderman clip. 87 billion spent and 17 billion went to the NHS. Absolutely scandalous

Scandalous, and sums up what the Tories have been doing since they got into power.

Syphon from the poor and give to the rich.

Wankers!

 

[SamBlue]

Tories, NHS and the curious case of flatlining. If there was no COVID we would be approaching %9 of our GDP, while Germany, France, etc are running towards 14%.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Daughters been waiting all day for her Operation. Was initially scheduled for this morning as she'll be in for a good few hours, and was concerned it may be a no go with the strike action and subsequent load on staffing.

Thankfully all good and shes just going to theatre now. Happy days as she's been waiting a long while to get mended.

Fully understand the strike action, and somewhat pitiful the pay that's being offered to our Junior Doctors. Hope they can bring it to a resolution sooner than later, owing to the backlogs.

 

[Man-chester copperpot]

Radio/papers saying “up to 11hr wait at walk-ins and only go to the hospital if it’s life threatening - this is due to junior doctor strikes” so sacked off going yesterday

Work colleague made me go this morning and dropped me off at 8.30am at North Manchester.
Blood test/piss test, results all done by 10.30am

If your really ill or in pain just go…..don’t be put off.

Thank you NHS, a few pills and my Super Cat Aids will be gone

 

[bluethrunthru]

The reason we need to care is this - nobody is asking who is paying for this - top quality work by the NHS and all emergency services and do you know what? It matters to them all.

 

[KS55]

Another classic this week illustrating that the NHS set up is all wrong. The Health secretary is holding an enquiry into a problem between the nhs trusts and the group of employees who act as special aides in hospitals. They are not medically qualified but act as surrogates to complete certain tasks, such as looking after drips and drains. They are called Physicians Associates.The problem is job definition and the boundaries they must observe.
In a properly run set up, this would be a relatively minor HR issue, but no-one in the NHS exec wants to touch it so it has been ignored for several years and the minister has now stepped in. Management fails because they have that fall back and happily fail to take responsibility. Minister, step back and MAKE THEM MANAGE. YCNMIU.

Health secretary launches independent review into safety of physician associates

The health secretary has launched an independent review into the scope and safety of physician associates (PAs).

www.pulsetoday.co.uk

 

[Blue Maverick]

Another classic this week illustrating that the NHS set up is all wrong. The Health secretary is holding an enquiry into a problem between the nhs trusts and the group of employees who act as special aides in hospitals. They are not medically qualified but act as surrogates to complete certain tasks, such as looking after drips and drains. They are called Physicians Associates.The problem is job definition and the boundaries they must observe.
In a properly run set up, this would be a relatively minor HR issue, but no-one in the NHS exec wants to touch it so it has been ignored for several years and the minister has now stepped in. Management fails because they have that fall back and happily fail to take responsibility. Minister, step back and MAKE THEM MANAGE. YCNMIU.

Health secretary launches independent review into safety of physician associates

The health secretary has launched an independent review into the scope and safety of physician associates (PAs).

www.pulsetoday.co.uk

My wife works for NHS and she’s complaining about how much things cost due to the PFI rules, all brought in by Blair and one of the worst things to happen to the public sector, new laptop £500 PC world, no mate £1500 through this supplier. Wooden tongue depressor 1p nah they are £1 from this catalogue, absolute licence to print money.

 

[BrianW]

PFI was brought in by the Major government. At the time, there was an obsession with the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement. There was a taboo against it going above such-and-such a percent, though like many taboos that government obsess over, it was mainly bollocks.

PFI was a way of getting around this as expenditure did not count against PSBR. So you could have your new hospital/school/police station/whatever. It also involved the highly efficient private sector in the story, which was seen as a Good Thing.

I remember agreeing with my mate, at the time, that this was like buying a car on a credit card. That it would be ludicrously expensive. That it was obviously more sensible for the government just to borrow the money, given that it can borrow more cheaply than anyone else.

(Sigh). But the obsession with the PSBR plus the desire to have new shiny things (which was justified after years of neglect) meant that this PFI nonsense went ahead.

You will notice no one mentions the PSBR anymore. Fuck knows what it is now. But it's all of a piece with similar obsessions with the balance of payments, M3 money supply, and the value of the £ against 'a basket of foreign currencies'. All of which used to be on the TV every night, none of which have been mentioned in years. (I wouldn't even know where to look for the M3 figure these days, but they used to talk about it as if civilisation itself hung on its level.)

 

[bluethrunthru]

PFI was brought in by the Major government. At the time, there was an obsession with the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement. There was a taboo against it going above such-and-such a percent, though like many taboos that government obsess over, it was mainly bollocks.

PFI was a way of getting around this as expenditure did not count against PSBR. So you could have your new hospital/school/police station/whatever. It also involved the highly efficient private sector in the story, which was seen as a Good Thing.

I remember agreeing with my mate, at the time, that this was like buying a car on a credit card. That it would be ludicrously expensive. That it was obviously more sensible for the government just to borrow the money, given that it can borrow more cheaply than anyone else.

(Sigh). But the obsession with the PSBR plus the desire to have new shiny things (which was justified after years of neglect) meant that this PFI nonsense went ahead.

You will notice no one mentions the PSBR anymore. Fuck knows what it is now. But it's all of a piece with similar obsessions with the balance of payments, M3 money supply, and the value of the £ against 'a basket of foreign currencies'. All of which used to be on the TV every night, none of which have been mentioned in years. (I wouldn't even know where to look for the M3 figure these days, but they used to talk about it as if civilisation itself hung on its level.)

Its almost as if years of Tory austerity was sending things to hell in a handcart a very complaint media just dropped things and moved things about in a series distractions to help their mates cover it up. Surely not.

 

[BrianW]

In fairness, if anything, Blair extended the use of PFI. But the reason was still the PSBR thing. The main 'crime' of the Tories is they run things on a shoestring for years and years, and Labour come in and have to spend fortunes putting things back in order.

A Tory's idea of prudence is never to service your car, on the grounds it costs too much. But eventually, the engine gets fucked so badly you have to replace it, costing a whole lot more.