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Are we really going to sit by while they destroy the NHS?
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teqniq
DisMembered
Criminal negligence on the part of the vermin? I think so:
www.theguardian.com
A&E delays causing up to 500 deaths a week, says senior medic
President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine believes waiting times for December will be the worst he has ever seen
I make a 334 mile round trip to see mine
I did 6 weeks as a locum stroke consultant for £120/hr before I took a permanent job.I’m being paid £50 an hour right now. I’m in the bath. Non residential 24hr on call. Balances out tho- spent Christmas night all night on the wards
I’ve heard of some Med reg shifts going for £100s/hr for hard to fill shifts or craft specialties. If you gave up the day job and just took locums you’d be really rich and have a fantastic work-life balance.
teqniq
DisMembered
Also lest anyone forget the catalogue of failures that Hunt presided over this article from last year is a comprehensive takedown of the man:
www.opendemocracy.net
How new chancellor Jeremy Hunt ruined the NHS
As the former health secretary is appointed to the Exchequer, his ministerial past puts paid to his ‘sensible’ image
www.opendemocracy.net
It's quite exciting but clearly the hardest job in the hospital. 5 years was quite enough for me thanks.
elbows
Well-Known Member
As I just mentioned on a covid thread, they finally got desperate enough to tell parents to keep their kids off school if sick:
Children told to stay home from school if sick amid flu, Covid and scarlet fever
The advice to parents at the end of the Christmas break comes amid high levels of flu and Covid cases.
www.bbc.co.uk
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
In the olden days we used to pay bursaries to trainee nurses and provide them with subsidised accommodation. Now we expect them to get £££thousands into debt for their nursing degree even before they earn a penny.
But it's more than just woeful underfunding, it's bloodsucking too. Agencies are one of the vampires. NHS spent £3 billion last year on agency staff. And agency bosses have political clout of course.
See Morning Star article on Lord Ashcroft's firm MEDACS, cited earlier by teqniq
morningstaronline.co.uk
From Nursing Times, November 2022:
www.nursingtimes.net
And from way back in 2015 - a hit job by the Torygraph on how agencies are making a killing from the inability of the NHS to recruit, train and retain staff
The figures cited in the article would be massively higher now, but even back then:
But it's more than just woeful underfunding, it's bloodsucking too. Agencies are one of the vampires. NHS spent £3 billion last year on agency staff. And agency bosses have political clout of course.
See Morning Star article on Lord Ashcroft's firm MEDACS, cited earlier by teqniq
Medacs: how to make money from a run-down NHS
SOLOMON HUGHES illuminates the dark art of Tory trickery in the health service: cut public spending, then pay major party donors like Lord Ashcroft to fill the gaps with their private medical companies
morningstaronline.co.uk
From Nursing Times, November 2022:
NHS agency spend up 20% in England amid workforce gaps | Nursing Times
NHS trusts across England are increasingly relying on expensive agency staff to fill workforce gaps, with one organisation shelling out as much as £2,500
www.nursingtimes.net
And from way back in 2015 - a hit job by the Torygraph on how agencies are making a killing from the inability of the NHS to recruit, train and retain staff
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The figures cited in the article would be massively higher now, but even back then:
In true tabloid fashion the article mentions the lavish lifestyles of some of the agency bosses, illustrated with pictures of houses valued at what must have seemed back then extraordinary prices. It doesn't talk about their political influence.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Saw it earlier, glad to see some recognition of doctors being complicit in nhs privatisation, but don’t you think that the parade of weirdos on NTAMS is a big clue as to why it has been so easy for the Labour right (and the right as a whole) to advance their agendas?
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
It’s the same crowd that (at least some) posters on here balk at on the ‘no to nato’ event thread.
You may well be mad and you may not be going to take it any more, but you ain’t going to be beat psychiatry by allying with Scientology, nor are you going to beat the remorseless march of neo-liberalism by allying with antisemitic, despot defending cranks. You’re just doing the enemy’s work for them.
You may well be mad and you may not be going to take it any more, but you ain’t going to be beat psychiatry by allying with Scientology, nor are you going to beat the remorseless march of neo-liberalism by allying with antisemitic, despot defending cranks. You’re just doing the enemy’s work for them.
teqniq
DisMembered
Never watched a piece by them before and am subsequently unfamiliar with the 'parade of weirdos' you refer to. I see from your following post that you allude to antisemitism and Scientology. Unsavoury.
Cathy Newman conducted an interview with a Professor of Medicine about the poly-crisis affecting the NHS.At her invitation he explained that we have for some time now had a system with stark regional variations which was also rightly said to be a two-tier system with people unable to pay for private care being the ones now exposed to unprecedented waiting times both in A-E following strokes and heart attacks and when in need of an operation of one kind or another."Finally" she then said "have you or your family ever had recourse to private health-care".Err well yes they had gone private for scans here and there when waiting times seemed too long."
He seemed quite taken aback to be asked this and the entire point of the interview seemed to have been negated-extraordinary question to have asked when she must have known what the answer was likely to be.
He seemed quite taken aback to be asked this and the entire point of the interview seemed to have been negated-extraordinary question to have asked when she must have known what the answer was likely to be.
teqniq
DisMembered
Javid can fuck the fuck off:
www.theguardian.com
Sajid Javid calls for patients to pay for GP and A&E visits
Radical reforms needed to tackle waiting times, says former health secretary
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
manufacturing consent
Pickman's model
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Here's a radical idea, unmarketise the nhs and return it to the ethos of the service lampooned by films like carry on nurseJavid can fuck the fuck off:
Sajid Javid calls for patients to pay for GP and A&E visits
Radical reforms needed to tackle waiting times, says former health secretary
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Dropping book titles into threads is no substitute for actual argument
DaveCinzano
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
I know what you mean but he is right. A lot of what Javid is saying is laying the ground for a new approach that directly goes against the current consensual view.
EG
“extending the contributory principle”
“too often the appreciation for the NHS has become a religious fervour and a barrier to reform”.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
No, there is plenty of money for excellent free-at-use healthcare, but huge amounts are being lost to freebooting, profiteering, parasitic chancers, whose removal from the entire system is expeditiously required.
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Manufacturing consent is surely more than one man proposing a policy in an abortive tory leadership campaign and in an article in the Times some months later. As far as a brief search shows, he's not working for or with a think-tank on this and he won't be an mp after the next election. My money would be on this being more of a campaign for his future career, probably as some sort of consultant or lobbyist for a US healthcare company
teqniq
DisMembered
I notice from his own tweet that he is calling for 'cross-party consensus'. To me this would seem to indicate that he knows the vermin have no mandate to push changes that he is advocating though on their own even with their substantial majority they are fearful of widespread opposition. I just hope the likes of Streeting is not allowed to push for the changes he has indicated he wants to see should Labour win a majority at the next election.
Pickman's model
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No indeed. But the shifting of the ow can't be done by one tory no matter how energetic all on his todd as is the case atm. If this is taken up by the lp - which under shammer can't be ruled out - then we'll see. But atm afaic this is just javid flying his lonely kite. He'll never see this moved forward under his authority. And I doubt other people will adopt it, as it would hinder rather than help the a&e crisis.
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Cross party consensus still not really manufacturing consent as manufactured consent manifests in the population not parliament
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Feels like we're past the point where it'll be possible to push this through now we've got strikes building momentum
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I would say ime/anecdotally there's a fair amount of support among NHS staff for something like that charging system. Be interested to see any more fact based info, but support for it might even be higher than in the general public given how difficult working in the NHS is currently (people will clutch at straws for any solutions).
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yep, but what 'lone wolves' like the now 'liberated' Javid can do is raise the ideological direction up the news agenda. Simply having their vile ideas as "media talking points" acts to legitimise, normalise and ultimately manufacture some degree of consent.
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