Easydrinker wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 12:18 am
Sadly, those knobs will get NHS treatment if they get the virus.
Robert.
As will the stuck up 1% types, when the private healthcare they've paid for (to get hot and cold waiting service, flowers and sky+ in their hospital "accommodation", WiFi included, etc) goes wrong - sorting out mistakes and malpractice isn't cost-effective for them, so they just leap back on the NHS bandwagon, despite them either lobbying for cuts and privatisation (mostly in descending order of profitability) in small sections or actually making the cuts while profiting from the sectioned privatisation (like the hedge fund managing and venture capital types in government).
Eventually, the only bits left for us to fund will be all the loss-leaders, which while necessary don't or can't be shown to make any £'s........
No different from all the Thatcher cons etc.........
But you know what to do, so will you do it?
"What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away." Tom Waites
Mash wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:48 am
I do think over indulging related admissions to A&E should carry a substantial fine
Not quite sure what you're alluding to here?
Misuse of emergency services could?/should? carry fines? - yes possibly but then it needs someone to define misuse.
After all, is it misuse to attend A&E when you have a health complaint serious enough to need a short or no notice visit to a GP surgery, yet they aren't given the funding to be open outside office hours/9-5.30?
"What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away." Tom Waites
Most of the problems in the nhs stems from mismanagement at the highest level. If anything is privatised, profits have to be made which means standards drop. I'm sure career type politicians (not all) are there to make a name for themselves in the first instance so that when they either retire or get out of prison they can make money doing the rounds after dinner speaking or the book of memoirs. The standard of politicians has to improve everywhere at every level before things improve.
There is so much corruption in government now it's ridiculous.
Nye Bevan must be turning in his grave.
