tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post8531415760659597169..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Chalk A Few More Deaths Up To The NHSDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-19816473658384300552009-01-11T04:19:00.000+00:002009-01-11T04:19:00.000+00:001. I know a chap who resigned as a trustee of his ...1. I know a chap who resigned as a trustee of his local PCT in disgust at the treatment his mother recieved in hospital.<BR/><BR/>2. Labour did not create a health service in 1948, they nationalised a country-wide network of pre-existing charitable hospitals. At the time access to healthcare was already available to the overwhelming majority by insurance, welfare clubs, Union membership and the like. The NHS has lived off the feel-good factor of its own creation ever since.<BR/><BR/>3. Currently, as patients get dangerously close to the target waiting list time, they are shunted off to private hospital for treatment, not on the basis of clinical need but to ensure that targets are met.<BR/>As I understand it, such are the relative efficiences of those hospitals, it does not even cost the NHS any more per operation for them to do this.<BR/><BR/>4. Anyone who has sold anything to the NHS will know that it is one of the worst sufferers of " End Of The Financial Year Syndrome ".<BR/>Any spare cash MUST be spent or that department will not only lose that cash this year but a similar amount will be deducted from next years budget and thereafter. For this reason vast amounts of money are wasted on uneccessary spening throughout the NHS.bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-12887873150441290782009-01-10T22:08:00.000+00:002009-01-10T22:08:00.000+00:00One of the blogs, whom I acknowledged in a recent ...One of the blogs, whom I acknowledged in a recent post, corrected a remark he had made as follows:<BR/><BR/>That reminds me that I have seen Cameron twice. The other time was when he was at a "save the NHS from Labour" stall in the centre of Chipping<BR/>Norton, although I think he'd just dropped in to say hello to the activists there and he cleared off as I approached. I had a conversation along the following lines with one of the activists:<BR/><BR/>Tory: Do you want to save our NHS?<BR/>Me: Yes, but that would require some sort of extensive privatisation, which is something your party would never do.<BR/>Tory: Yes, that's right - we wouldn't. Good day.Witterings from Witneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349563961787006775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-70653056482088710022009-01-10T21:52:00.000+00:002009-01-10T21:52:00.000+00:00Fair comment, amended slightly to reflect your val...Fair comment, amended slightly to reflect your valid observation. :-)Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-31065008757721426932009-01-10T21:32:00.000+00:002009-01-10T21:32:00.000+00:00a system that was ideal for 1948Wrong. It was shit...<I>a system that was ideal for 1948</I><BR/><BR/>Wrong. It was shit then as well.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.com