NHS Reforms

[handsomefortune]

but what will I be like 10 years from now !!

but didn't you say (or post) the same when you were 79 yrs gamba?!

anywaysup, chin chin - to your continuing good health, and to all on the forum!

i do think the ageing population moan currently 'popular' is such a load of rubbish - since everyone is 'ageing'.....even media presenters whose brief seems to be to attempt to frighten viewers into an early death about ageing. producers can't successfully get round the difficulties by choosing a 12 yr old, as 12 yr olds are ageing too.

arguably, longterm memory is currently vastly superior to short term memory which is hardly worthwhile if short term, all you remember is bad news in the media!

in view of supposed health 'reforms' i'd take a wild guess that longterm memory is possibly more valuable, especially in terms of personal health, than it's ever been. at least in the context of 'compare and contrast' judgments about current 'reform' .....where the meaning of the word 'reform' has apparently been studiously forgotten.

here's to our 'longterm memory, and forgetfulness'.... (and 'everything in moderation').

ps unlike pens, biros, and pencils, we never forget where our keyboard is! another aspect of daily life that can't be listed on life assurance adverts, which seem to pop up online more lately, (if anyone else has noticed? along with that awful cartoon belly, which expands/reduces alarmingly rapidly)?

[Serial_Apologist]

No ads on my socialist computer!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Keeping me going to my present age ( 89 ) can't have helped !

... and all credit to sex-starved baboons!

[eighthobstruction]

Mind the gap, one might say....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23258962

[Beef Oven]

Today's FT leads on the fact that NHS cutbacks have contributed to a glut of 20,000 young doctors; after all that expensive training many are now seeking jobs abroad. Sigh.

There are two ways to plan a workforce. The right way and the wrong way. The NHS loves the way it does it.

[greenilex]

I belong to various NHS pressure groups. They seem to be having an effect...

[Beef Oven]

I belong to various NHS pressure groups. They seem to be having an effect...

Share an example?

[Barbirollians]

The NHS scarcely will exist soon - it will be a state funded privatised racket .

Would you believe it , last year's Health Act provides that if an elderly person needs NHS Continuing Care you cannot simply place them in a nursing home - they have to put her placement out to compulsory competitive tender - whilst she or he bed blocks - and if the NHS doesn't do so all other care homes not given a chance to tender can sue the NHS for damages .

The lunatics of the Coalition have truly taken over the asylum .

[Beef Oven]

I belong to various NHS pressure groups. They seem to be having an effect...

Do you think that they can have an effect on the perfidious EU and their ridiculous competitive tendering rules that they place on our government (coalition) and our NHS?

Would you believe that last year's Health Act had to include EU competitive tendering stipulations?

The EU lunatics have truly taken over the European asylum!!!!!!

http://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/about-our-trust/procurement-and-supplies/procurement-and-tendering-eu-procurement-regulations/

[eighthobstruction]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...s-8701302.html .....it's that gap again.....

[Beef Oven]

Professor Sir Brian Jarman, an expert on mortality rates tells us that.....

"High death rates are in effect a "smoke alarm" - a sign that something may be wrong."

It's very reassuring to know that the people at the top of the NHS are keeping an eye out if things start to go wrong.

But it did make me think that there could be an earlier warning sign.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23315869

[eighthobstruction]

But it did make me think that there could be an earlier warning sign.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23315869

What sign was that then....??

Andy Burnham said to have had repeated (1500?) probable problems flagged up to him, on which he is alleged to have taken no action.....but this is now a bit of a political football being kicked around to the tune of " in whose hands is the NHS standards more safe" <catchy little number>, with the Tories looking for Brownie points....and Labour adding their own "doowap doowap"....

[eighthobstruction]

Here,s a blog by Fraser Nelson on the subject (a journalist who I can never understand quite what his agenda is)....http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeeh...alise-the-nhs/

[eighthobstruction]

This is likely to be a good read (published this month)....https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...ED-_9-7-13.pdf

[eighthobstruction]

And here is Burnhams reply (an able politican I think)....http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeeh...ham-hits-back/

Not having read the Keogh Report (pub today)....I'm not sure if the role of the CQC has been highlighted, it's overworked, poorly staffed, it's flawed methods and implementation of non professionals in medical fields, surely MUST be looked at again (even though at this moment it is supposed to be modernising under new management)....MORE input and scrutiny needs to be put in now to this process, so that a logical well funded CQC DOES have the correct sweep of method and implementation....