beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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so we fight tooth and nail to keep a system poor bed provision, under resources GPs putting pressure on A&E, doesnt have adequate social care or mental care, doesnt cover denistry.Seconded.
The Tories have wanted to privatise the NHS for years because they are ‘the Party of low taxation’ - they have done their best to undermine NHS services by depriving them of a sustainable level of funding IMO - so the electorate then say, ‘hey, let’s fix the NHS by privatising it’ when in fact all it needs is appropriate funding for the level of care it is expected to provide, a reduction of unnecessary wastage and just better a balance between administration and clinical care recourses. That doesn’t require a massive overhaul or privatisation enterprise, that requires a government that will actually listen to doctors and nurses when they are told where it is struggling and what is needed.
The one area that I do think the NHS is very much broken though is in bed provision - I blame that on too many people using A&E because they can’t get an appointment with their GP. I also blame it on local authority Social Service care that is too slow to provide discharge care packages/and or nursing home care for in-patients. In the community, Primary Care for dentistry, mental health services and GP services is suffering from withdrawal of funding and more recently, a rapid expansion of housing development without the necessary Primary Healthcare infrastructure . It’s a crap shoot which part of the Country you live in whether Primary Care is meeting the needs of residents and in many areas it is not..
or, maybe, we need to change some of those things. starting with GPs monopoly on entry to health services, and providing alternatives to hosptial so convalescence some social care can be handled away from them.