Are we really going to sit by while they destroy the NHS?

[agricola]

This isn't a joke. It looks like it is, and reads as if it is, but it isnt:

Untrained members of the public could be paid up to £1,000 a month for renting their spare rooms to patients recovering from surgery under an Airbnb-style model the NHS is piloting.

The scheme aims to offer an alternative to hospitals and care homes for patients who have had minor procedures, but it has come under fire from medical professionals and social workers.

A startup, CareRooms, is working with the NHS and councils in Essex to pilot the model and finalise how it will work.

The company, believed to be the first of its kind in the UK, said it would benefit patients by creating “a safe, comfortable place for people to recuperate from hospital”, and the NHS by helping alleviate bed shortages and delayed transfers of care.

Bed blocking in the NHS has risen by 40% in the past year and is estimated to result in as many as 8,000 deaths annually. On some days 6,000 patients are taking up beds when they no longer require hospital treatment.

 

[yield]

Crazy. Christ that's daft. A lot of those patients are going to have complex and/or substantial needs. Alcohol and / or drug dependency and / or mental health issues.

We already have a few "bed blocker" flats in the sheltered and extra care schemes and have issues with inadequate follow up support. Can't see any way that putting people in spare rooms will improve that.

 

[SpookyFrank]

 

[Pickman's model]

This isn't a joke. It looks like it is, and reads as if it is, but it isnt:

it seemed like a good idea at the time. after everyone present had had six pints.

 

[extra dry]

Going share this with a few nurses and few doctors.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Going share this with a few nurses and few doctors.

Twas a doctor friend sent it to me.

 

[Almor]

Saw, and shared, this on Facebook

 

[teqniq]

Doctors are taking Jeremy Hunt to court to stop him 'Americanising' the NHS

 

[flypanam]

The editor of The Lancet has written this, a call for a Marxist interpretation of health. The Lancet.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32805-2/fulltext

 

[SaskiaJayne]

Good move. They said another £350mill a week so lets have it...

We want our Brexit cash boost - NHS boss

 

[Chilli.s]

Good move. They said another £350mill a week so lets have it...

We want our Brexit cash boost - NHS boss

Yep, a pledge written large, publicised widely, get the money out.

 

[teqniq]

So the lying piece of shit that is Philip Hammond was on the Marr show....

Chancellor Philip Hammond refuses to commit £4bn to NHS after funding plea

The Chancellor has rejected the NHS chief’s plea for an emergency £4bn injection in this week’s Budget, accusing him of exaggerated claims of a crisis.

Instead, Philip Hammond blamed Simon Stevens for problems in the health service, saying the plan the chief executive drew up “is not being delivered”.

Mr Stevens took the extraordinary step of making a public plea for an extra £4bn immediately, warning waiting lists for operations would otherwise hit a record five million people.

But Mr Hammond appeared to dismiss the warnings, making clear his belief that the NHS did not need – and would not receive – the £4bn asked for....

 

[teqniq]

Essentially it's all about stuff like this which popped up on my Twitterfeed the other day...

 

[teqniq]

Tories planning to hand private firms '10-15 year NHS contracts' to stop Labour from renationalising | Evolve Politics

A former Medical Director in the NHS has exposed deeply worrying details of ‘secret’ plans hatched by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to force through a ‘raft of secondary legislation’ (a method used by ruling governments to impose new rules without requiring a full vote in Parliament) that essentially allows the Conservative Party to hand unprecedented 10-15 year contracts to private healthcare firms to run NHS services – contracts that would be hugely expensive for any future government to get out of....

 

[DotCommunist]

salting the ground, the cunts

 

[Streathamite]

Just a brief note, to update anyone who isn't aware of the campaigning network, Keep Our NHS Public. https://keepournhspublic.com/about-us/
They are the biggest and most effective of all the NHS campaign group - and they probably have a branch near you.

 

[teqniq]

Stephen Hawking and leading doctors taking Jeremy Hunt to court over NHS 'back door privatisation'

Professor Stephen Hawking has won permission to take Jeremy Hunt and NHS England to court over controversial proposals to restructure the health service, The Independent can reveal.

Mr Hunt has tabled a plan which could allow commercial companies to run health and social services across a whole region in what critics have described as allowing back-door privatisation.

Leading healthcare professionals and Professor Hawking have argued an act of parliament is required, allowing MPs and Lords to scrutinise the proposals, before the policy is implemented and any changes to regulations are made. ...

 

[teqniq]

Fury as the Home Office rejects visas for 100 Indian doctors recruited by the NHS

Hundreds of doctors recruited by the NHS from overseas have been denied visas by the Home Office, leading to increased pressures in the health service.

NHS bosses said limits on the number of visas issued to non-EU doctors were contributing to rota gaps and delays in patients receiving care...

I don't think it's unreasonable to think this is entirely deliberate

 

[Chilli.s]

Fury as the Home Office rejects visas for 100 Indian doctors recruited by the NHS



I don't think it's unreasonable to think this is entirely deliberate

Or just another ill conceived fuck up.

 

[teqniq]

Hmmm what when privatisation is on the agenda like the elephant in the room? I think not. That is not to say they are not incapable of fuckups, indeed they seem to excel at them but in this particular instance i think it might suit their endgame no end. Having said that there is also the home office setting targets on immigration which is why I nearly posted this on the Windrush thread, either way from their point of view it could be seen as a win-win situation.

 

[treelover]

RAF hero, 92, left on trolley for 12 hour in crisis-hit NHS

Stan Solomons, who served in the RAF during the Second World War, was taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary where he waited hours for care

www.mirror.co.uk

Looking good eh, Johnson?

 

[kalidarkone]

It's a chaotic mess even more then usual.

Last week I looked after a patient that had day case surgery but lived a few hundred miles away. Usually (that does not exist anymore) they would have a bed for the night. However as the hospital was bursting at the seams the trust paid for the patient and partner to stay in a hotel and arranged for the Hospital at home Hospital at Home
to visit in the morning before they left for home. They were chuffed....better bed, better food ..and way cheaper then a hospital bed at £65 + a taxi to the hotel and back to the hospital car park the following morning.

Seminal moment. ....I've never ever seen that before.....but makes sense within what is now the 'new normal' hospital climate.

Also theater lists being g cancelled as nowhere to recover patients because recovery rooms (There are 70 self contained tiny recovery rooms up to 24 that get used as patient short stay or escalation during winter pressures which began in August this year) No staff....so many have left....probably almost 1/3 of nurses are Agency -some who have been here 2 years +.

If I had the money and I needed surgery -I'd be going private to ensure I get the surgery asap.
Oh and the NHS hospital have been running private surgical lists for years and is a guaranteed revenue stream for the hospital trust.

 

[Dogsauce]

run It down so the better off go private, then once that reaches a critical mass means test the rest of it. Once it ceases to be universal political support will fall away, aided by the usual divide and rule scrounger narrative, “I’m not paying tax for them to have a hip replacement, they’re not even working”, “why should I have to pay for others who aren’t paying into the system” etc.

Already part way there with the last bit with the hugely exaggerated issue of ’health tourism’ by dirty forrins.

 

[teqniq]

Penned by the guy who got thown under a bus over the Cambridge Analytica thing, it doesn't tell you anything you didn't already suspect but it's good to see it in print. When the Covid-19 thing is over there need to be a reckoning with the vermin.

‘Behind Closed Doors Johnson and his Cabinet Do Not Applaud the NHS – They Ideologically Oppose It’

From his time working with Brexit and Conservative lobby groups, Shahmir Sanni argues that the people in power in the UK actually despise social services, despite their praise of them during the COVID-19 pandemic.

bylinetimes.com

 

[teqniq]

NHS workers rally in London to demand pay rise
British healthcare workers have been rallying in central London in their scrubs and NHS uniforms to demand better wages, according to the PA news agency.
After a two-minute in honour of the 640 healthcare workers who have died during the coronavirus pandemic, demonstrators holding banners which read “stop clapping, start paying”, “priceless yet penniless” and “640 healthcare workers dead, blood on their hands”, began a march to Trafalgar Square.
Nurses were excluded from a wage increase for about 900,000 public sector workers announced in July because they are in the final year of a three-year agreement. The pay increase does not apply to junior doctors either, after they agreed a four-year deal last year.
Alia Butt, 33, an NHS psychotherapist in Essex and chair of Nurses Staff Voices, said:

We have simply had enough. The money is there. They are simply just not providing it to NHS staff. It turns out that the only way to ensure the NHS is able to continue to function is by the sheer force of organising ...
The government clearly has not got a clue about what it is doing and that is very scary. Nurses saved the lives of the prime minister. What more do we need to do to get paid properly? It’s bizarre.

Jordan Rivera, 43, an occupational therapist in Hackney, east London, said NHS workers are emotionally and physically tired, many are living paycheque to paycheque and the situation they have been left in is “outrageous”. She said:

Working that hard when you are already exhausted from fighting the pandemic is an outrage. How can we be expected to work through a second wave when we are physically and emotionally exhausted and on top of that, we are worried about paying our bills?

Protests calling for a 15% increase in pay for NHS workers were also held in Manchester, Sheffield, Brighton and Bournemouth.

Protests in Germany against restrictions as French cases set new record – as it happened

Cases continue to surge in western Europe; Victoria sees one of its lowest totals for months; Brazil deaths climb past 130,000. Follow all the developments

www.theguardian.com

 

[teqniq]

Well this is just totally shit:

375K London GP patients sold to company owned by US subprime health insurance profiteer

London’s biggest GP ‘provider’, AT Medics Ltd, has just been sold to the UK subsidiary of a US subprime health insurance profiteer with a long record of fraud, financial dishonesty, health care mis…

calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Well this is just totally shit:

375K London GP patients sold to company owned by US subprime health insurance profiteer

London’s biggest GP ‘provider’, AT Medics Ltd, has just been sold to the UK subsidiary of a US subprime health insurance profiteer with a long record of fraud, financial dishonesty, health care mis…

calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com

Probably, but that piece is hugely garbled and confusing about what's actually happened.

 

[teqniq]

I just reread it. I don't much like the layout, but that's neither here nor there really. It doesn't seem so confusing or garbled to me.

 

[Badgers]

Blood on their hands

 

[teqniq]

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