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

I don't think they care anymore. Possibly this is the Tories at their most dangerous, if we believe they are resigned to electoral defeat. They just don't give a shit about fixing this. Not even to fatten up for sale
 
I agree with a lot more of what he says - the main point is that more money should mean more output.

The GP crisis could be helped by no fees for medical students, accommodation provided, and a bursary.

In return, doctors work as GPs (at the normal pay rates) for three years before moving on to specialise.

A big increase in Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Nurse Practitioner numbers. 90% of patients could be more than adequately treated by NPs.
 
The GP crisis could be helped by no fees for medical students, accommodation provided, and a bursary.

In return, doctors work as GPs (at the normal pay rates) for three years before moving on to specialise.

A big increase in Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Nurse Practitioner numbers. 90% of patients could be more than adequately treated by NPs.

Charging student nurses to study and removing bursaries is another insane thing the current lot have done.

Would love to know what % of student loans they think they will get back from nurses. I bet it’s not worth the hassle.
 
The GP crisis could be helped by no fees for medical students, accommodation provided, and a bursary.

In return, doctors work as GPs (at the normal pay rates) for three years before moving on to specialise.

A big increase in Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Nurse Practitioner numbers. 90% of patients could be more than adequately treated by NPs.
But 90% of patients being seen by less qualified practitioners sounds like a step back from what we had until very recently?
 


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The GP crisis could be helped by no fees for medical students, accommodation provided, and a bursary.

In return, doctors work as GPs (at the normal pay rates) for three years before moving on to specialise.

A big increase in Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Nurse Practitioner numbers. 90% of patients could be more than adequately treated by NPs.

It's Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) not ANPs as they come from a range of previous medical backgrounds and then do a Masters level course of study, and the NHS long term plan is expanding that part of the workforce.

The training to be a GP is a specialism though, and takes years, so it doesn't work the way you suggest.
 
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“One of the things that I do find frustrating, given that we have committed to more staff, I cannot understand why the BMA is so hostile to the idea that with more staff must come better standards for patients,” he said, accusing the union of “living on a different planet”.

He seems to be living on a different planet where the NHS has somehow got more staff, instead of the chronic shortage of staff it actually has.
 
But 90% of patients being seen by less qualified practitioners sounds like a step back from what we had until very recently?

That's not the right way to look at it. It's not about being 'less qualified', it's about being able to get appropriate medical care when you need it. There's a huge expansion in roles like ACPs and Physican Associates across the health service. That is so not even on the list of things to be bothered about.
 
It's Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) not ANPs as they come from a range of previous medical backgrounds and then do a Masters level course of study, and the NHS long term plan is expanding that part of the workforce.

The training to be a GP is a specialism though, and takes years, so it doesn't work the way you suggest.
It Scotland (where I live), it is Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
 
It Scotland (where I live), it is Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

It's changing, you're just behind! ;)

ANP is still used here in England as well in some places, usually by nurses who are ANPs and are a bit resistant to the change. But the move is towards ACPs across the board, and they will get central professional registration as such at some point - currently they hold their professional registration with their prior professional body (NMC, HCPC, etc.).
 
Charging student nurses to study and removing bursaries is another insane thing the current lot have done.

Would love to know what % of student loans they think they will get back from nurses. I bet it’s not worth the hassle.

They did restore the bursary, but at a lower rate.
 
It's changing, you're just behind! ;)

ANP is still used here in England as well in some places, usually by nurses who are ANPs and are a bit resistant to the change. But the move is towards ACPs across the board, and they will get central professional registration as such at some point - currently they hold their professional registration with their prior professional body (NMC, HCPC, etc.).

Could you cite a source for that?
 
You’re not going to get accountability within healthcare (hillsborough law anyone?) without taking on doctors, nor can you logically or effectively argue for universal, solidaristic and emancipatory care provision without at least at first acknowledging the absence of accountability for medical professionals and the culture and practice in the medical profession of seeing certain human beings as just too mad, bad or just plain feeble to warrant health (or any other sort of) care

The failure of the left to grasp this makes it easier for right wing politicians like streeting to push ‘efficiency’ and privatisation. Why defend the nhs/BMA when they’re a bunch of eugenist arse-covering bastards? Why have universal care provision when even medics behave as if some lives don’t matter?
 
The problem that bits of the left (Labour especially) has with the NHS and health is that to 'fix it' is impossible without changing how people work and live and how society is organised.

Anything short of that is inevitably going to be a 'sticking plaster' solution.
 
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It's changing as people are working as ACPs who have never been nurses so cannot be ANPs but I'll see if I can find something more official though. It's an old title that's not helpful at describing the role, hence it changing in England. I was told it was changing in Scotland as well, be silly if it didn't given it doesn't reflect reality.

Here's what HEE say What is advanced clinical practice?
 
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He seems to be living on a different planet where the NHS has somehow got more staff, instead of the chronic shortage of staff it actually has.

You know Wes streeting isn’t in government and is talking about the BMA objecting to an opposition policy ?
 
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