ChatterBank1 min ago
More Good News.
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In fact great news. Sir Keir has now set his sights on trying to sort the complete mess out that the cons left the NHS in.
Boris, Truss and Sunak completely ingnored the NHS including the strikes while they battled for pole position. Good luck SK at least you've got the B**** to face up to the problems. The cons just put their heads in the sand and watched it go further and further down the pan.
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The only thing the greedy Con Party wanted to do with the NHS was Privatise it .But now they can't can they. Because they can't get their greedy little grubby fingers in the till any more. Whoo hoo.
10:41 Mon 21st Oct 2024
On the news this morning, NHS now employ an extra 17000 staff but less apointments and operations, how come. Blair got new IT system costing 12 billion and it was scrapped as it didn't work. Labour know how to spend our money wisely. Smart watches also cost much more than a blood pressure monitor or blood sugar one. These plans are 10 year ones. Will they still be there then or will they say they didn't have time to sort it out if they are thrown out before that.
"SK to listen to what the boots on the ground are saying and wanting today within the NHS. A very busy PM."
The last thing he needs to do is to listen to "boots on the ground". I can tell him now what they will say - that they need more money and more staff.
The NHS is awash with both. Unfortunately neither is being used to its full potential.
"The cons just put their heads in the sand and watched it go further and further down the pan."
Any changes that the Conservatives proposed were almost invariably met with accusations of "privatisation" of the health service and no radical reform will ever succeed without a modicum of that at least. No other country in the world attempts to operate their health service along the lines of the NHS model. There's a very good reason for that - it does not and cannot work.
Until that's accepted and the whole shooting match binned, meaningful changes will never occur. Mr Starmer will fare no better than anybody else who has tried. There will be a raft of "reorganisations" and "fundamental reforms" which will simply reorganise the management structure, creating more chaos than already exists, and the entire behemoth will plunder on like a large oil tanker heading for the rocks.
When the rocks are eventually struck the NHS will become a "provider of last resort" (rather like social housing is - a first resort for some and and an impossibility for the rest). That process is already beginning. Many people requiring treatment are making their own arrangements when they learn how long they must remain in pain and discomfort.
Mr Starmer, of course, is on record as saying he would rather watch a loved one suffer than use private healthcare so hopefully he will be among those who can take advantage of the NHS as a first resort. The rest of us won't - and this government will likely add VAT to private healthcare costs so at least that will bring in more money to waste.
"I can understand it hurting the AB cons having to see a labour government sort the mess out left by the cons. Must be hard to accept."
They're not sorting out anything. They're saying they will sort it out - which is dead easy.
I'd be more than happy if it ever happened. However, history has told me that it never has and so I've come to the conclusion that it never will.
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