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Shahla
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 Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:43 am Post subject: Britain's NHS - One of the the worst health services in West |
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A tripling in annual NHS budget to £110 billions, and Britain is still inflicted with the worst health care in Western Europe. Even the BMA admits that 2006 was a bad year for the NHS, and with budgets increasingly being allocated from patient heath care to pay NHS employee pay rises, 2007 looks set to be an even worse year.
Why ?
Because those that decide on where the money is spent, are those that benefit from that money going straight into their own pockets. That's GP,s Hospital Doctors, Consultants and other Managerial NHS Staff.
Those that should be benefiting from a tripling in expenditure, i.e. the Patients have very little say on whether a GP service or Hospital is rubbish, and should be closed down. No, its the staff of that institution which decide that they should continue in practice, maybe they feel they deserve 30% pay rises per annum ? I.e. as GP's have enjoyed in recent years.
Though, I'm sure that 99% of patients would strongly disagree and perhaps even suggest that the GP and NHS services have deteriorated in recent years. As to save costs foreign doctors and staff have been brought in who can barely utter two words of English, dumped into the casualty words and after hour GP service areas. Who basically do not have a clue what they are doing !
Whether it by the GP surgery, casualty or the multitude of NHS departments such as the eye clinics. Invariable the first port of call is a foreign doctor or 'practician' with poor language skills accompanies dubious qualifications that has the power to send patients away with real symptoms. Who only later, after the condition has deteriorated are referred back to the said department to do the job properly ! Or in other circumstances the patient has gone off to PAY for private healthcare that is the whole purpose of the NHS's existence to service.
Even injured soldiers returning from the Iraq war, dumped in the NHS are complaining that they should be treated in Military Hospitals because the quality of healthcare is so bad. Better treatment than the rest of us ? There used to be 11 Military hospitals, now there is just 1.
Things are bad and expected to get much worse, despite the extra billions thrown at the NHS year in year out which just results in ever more cuts ! The next big cloud hanging over the NHS is the £61 billion pensions black hole that continues to grow ! This will mean more resources will be diverted from healthcare to fund the lush pension schemes that the vast majority of British public can only dream about.
What can be done about it ?
1. Avoid sentimentality - Don't get automatically sucked into the gravy train brigades persistent resistance to any type of market orientated reforms that attempt to introduce accountability and some resemblance of patient say in the matter. After all as anyone knows, money talks, but NOT currently where the NHS is free at the point of delivery !
2. Research the Facts - Do some research into the actual state of the NHS. Look at the facts rather than the propaganda. The facts speak for themselves. I.e. GP's rewarding themselves 30% annual pay rises. Hospitals running with outdated procedures, because the Consultants don't want to update into the 21st Century. An NHS where nurses and staff cannot even perform rudimentary hygiene, hence the outbreaks of 'super bugs' killing over 5000 a year.
3. Evaluate the alternatives to the current NHS system- The system is NOT working. And something drastic needs to be done. £110+ billions a year is more than enough to provide a decent health-care system We are paying for it, but not receiving it. Hence the people to decide whether a hospital is good or rubbish or a GP surgery is good or rubbish is the PATIENT, NOT those on the gravy train ! Not the Doctors, NOt the Management, Not the Consultants. But the Patients ! And it they decide the service is more or less worthless than THAT hospital or GP Surgery should be closed !
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