The NHS

[Oscar Namechange]

Officially I wouldnt have been either...but...I would have understood.

I got a right Bollocking about the machine being jolted and shooting a massive dose into me but the truth was they were more worried I would drop the machine as it cost them so much It was damn hard to do as well what with trying to drag my tripod behind me as well. But I got there and after being heavilly sedated for three days, it was the best cigg I've ever had.

[Raven]

No No No No No No.

What kind of idiot would want a privatised health service? Sixty one years ago the people of this country their feeling felt about this I find it hard to credit anyone thinks privatised medicine is a good thing-just look at the states who would want to copy them?

I understand what you are saying. The point is, the process of contracting out services has already begun. And it's been done with the least amount of public attention as can be.

[Raven]

I got a right Bollocking about the machine being jolted and shooting a massive dose into me but the truth was they were more worried I would drop the machine as it cost them so much It was damn hard to do as well what with trying to drag my tripod behind me as well. But I got there and after being heavilly sedated for three days, it was the best cigg I've ever had.

Yeah sounds about right. Like the folks who take their chest drains outside with them to smoke.
I would have been more worried about you dislodging the clot and sending that to your lungs. Priorities in that place sound a bit skewed to me.

[Oscar Namechange]

Yeah sounds about right. Like the folks who take their chest drains outside with them to smoke.
I would have been more worried about you dislodging the clot and sending that to your lungs. Priorities in that place sound a bit skewed to me.

It was on my left lung. I just have to say that the staff and all concerned in the emergency ward were nothing short of excellence. The Paramedics without doubt saved my life. I had just had major surgery so they suspected a pulmery embolism correctly at once and treated me in the ambulance on route with Heperin.

[spot]

There are, I think, two issues which the general public conflates. Privatizing out is one, and national care free at the point of delivery for cradle-to-grave health cover which is the other. They have nothing, as far as I can see, to do with each other.

There have been slips in the second. Dental provision is a central health concern and that's completely messed up. Prescription charges have sneaked in and up though they're still capped at £110 a year per person regardless of the volume of prescriptions which is a way of stopping it becoming a total outrage. It's still wrong.

But making the system as cost effective as possible, given the unchanged definition of what it performs, is a political decision that has nothing to do with cutting back on performance.

It's not an informed post Raven, but perhaps if you sink your teeth into it I'll get an idea of why I can't see the wood for the trees.

[gmc]

I understand what you are saying. The point is, the process of contracting out services has already begun. And it's been done with the least amount of public attention as can be.

That's because they know what the public reaction is likely to be. there's a lot wrong with the NHS but privatising it isn't the way to go.

[Bryn Mawr]

Whilst centralising the administration might be dragging the efficiency of the whole down, paying dividends and making profit the motive for existence is not the answer.

Keep central purchasing but take the administration back to the point of supply - make those that do responsible for the doing because they are the ones who know what is required.