It's good that the government are listening to the experts.
It's good that the government are listening to the experts.
The private sector will bring increased efficiency.
Nice in principle, but it would be disastrous in practice. The only people who stand a chance of understanding the NHS are the people that have to deal with it day in day out. And most of them only grasp a certain amount of it (myself included).
I expect you have some airy-fairy vision of hospitals as being places the government funds for patients go to and be treated by doctors, don't you?I would have excluded all management types and anything that has the stench of politics. So no meeting would ever have taken place!
I expect you have some airy-fairy vision of hospitals as being places the government funds for patients go to and be treated by doctors, don't you?
How sweet.
Wouldn't it just. Thankfully, it has certainly been improving in the last decade, but is still massively hampered by all the purchaser/provider/contracting/commissioning etc nonsense, which sucks up resources, is an obstacle to collaborative working between hospitals & community healthcare, and adds absolutely sod all of value to any patient. It would be nice to have a bit less of it, but instead it looks like we're going to be given more.I spent a couple of years as a member of a local patients involvement quango and my son had a long painful serious illness and died last year. So I no longer look at the NHS through rose tinted glasses. But it would be nice if the NHS actually worked as advertised.
...so that's 5 professional bodies, 3 commissioning bodies, a charity and voluntary sector management reps that attended vs 10 professional bodies + 2 trade unions that were excluded ...
