Edward;
It's why I've stopped reading newspapers, as the greed, the madness
began my day on the wrong foot.
I know that it wouldn't go away if I ignore it. But perhaps I can leap
over the middens it leaves in its wake.
-Joel
On 7/27/2014 12:06 PM, Edward Picot wrote:
Joel -
Don't get me started on the NHS. Of course the Tories are predisposed
towards selling things off and bringing in more and more private
provision in the interests of "efficiency" and "introducing
competition into the healthcare market" - they think that
privatisation and the competition are the answers to everything,
basically - and they're particularly keen on the idea that a lot of
healthcare problems can be solved by introducing lots and lots of
extra screening and vaccination/medication programmes, because
screening can be done by lots of non-NHS agencies (such as pharmacies)
and vaccination/medication programmes put vast amounts of money in the
pockets of their chums in the pharmaceuticals industry. (As an aside,
it's quite comical to see how desperate both the Government and the
pharmaceuticals industry are to find some evidence that "vaping" is
bad for your health, since at the moment it's starting to look like a
far more effective way to give up smoking than any tablet or nicotine
patch the drugs industry has managed to come up with, which means that
a huge loss of profits is on the cards.) However, the direction of
travel has been the same under both the Tories and Labour - the pace
of change may be different, and so may the way it's dressed up, but
basically they both perceive the problem in the same terms and seem to
be looking at the same limited range of solutions. Keep the punters
out of hospital at any cost - dismantle the hospitals and move care
out of the hospitals into small clinics, GPs' surgeries and the wider
care community as much as you can.
As someone who works in the NHS, the depressing thing is that once
every few years we get the "biggest reform of the NHS for a
generation", which means a dramatic rebuilding exercise and a period
of exhausting chaos and uncertainty; and when we start to emerge from
the other end of the process and things begin to settle down a bit
(which is where we are now) it's only to discover than none of the
savings the reorganisation was supposed to deliver have actually
materialised, the projected overspend is still pretty much the same as
it was before, and therefore the arseholes in Government and the
Department of Health are starting to eye up yet another huge
smash-and-rebuild exercise.
Grrr....
- Edward
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