NHS Reforms

[eighthobstruction]

As far as I have read the CQC have been more described as ....ineffective, ill lead, poor supervised, limp rhubarb, with non professionals making professional judgements (if indeed that poor piece of grammar <non professionals, making professional judgements> is advisable as a construction...)

Oh where's the BeefOven post ref CQC gone; to which this was a reply????

[eighthobstruction]

Drip Drip Drip Drip Drip....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23334130

[eighthobstruction]

One, One, One....Don't worry, stay happy....look after number one one one.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23465966

[teamsaint]

If the NHS actually spent its money trying to treat people appropriately, instead of trying to avoid treating them, (or funding them), they would save a fortune.
IMHO.

[ahinton]

the NHS

Never Harass Shareholders, as in?...

[eighthobstruction]

One REALLY hopes that the new Health Commissioning bodies (GP commissioning, Monitor etc) do not go the same way....i.e. looking great on paper but in reality prone to human weakness and mathematical formula....

[teamsaint]

Never Harass Shareholders, as in?...

I guess.sad days.at least those efficient U.S. healthcare companies are there to save us from ourselves......

[teamsaint]

One REALLY hopes that the new Health Commissioning bodies (GP commissioning, Monitor etc) do not go the same way....i.e. looking great on paper but in reality prone to human weakness and mathematical formula....

You must have a large hope resevoir, 8O.
Your hope versus American and other private healthcare interests.an unequal struggle,i fear.

[Barbirollians]

Privatisation of the NHS is almost complete already - the only thing remaining the same is that we are paying for it .

[teamsaint]

Privatisation of the NHS is almost complete already - the only thing remaining the same is that we are paying for it .

and barely a whimper of protest.

[KipperKid]

Privatisation of the NHS is almost complete already - the only thing remaining the same is that we are paying for it .

I share your concern, but the privatisation aspect of the NHS is a serous matter and deserves more than emotional statements. Privatisation cannot by law go above 49% of income, never mind turnover.

When was the last time you pitched up at your local hospital's open board meeting? Have you got yourself onto your local patient and public involvement group? Made any locally meaningful FOIA requests lately?

I'm not knocking you, I'm asking those rhetorical questions to provoke thought.

[teamsaint]

I share your concern, but the privatisation aspect of the NHS is a serous matter and deserves more than emotional statements. Privatisation cannot by law go above 49% of income, never mind turnover.

When was the last time you pitched up at your local hospital's open board meeting? Have you got yourself onto your local patient and public involvement group? Made any locally meaningful FOIA requests lately?

I'm not knocking you, I'm asking those rhetorical questions to provoke thought.

well you have provoked thought.

[ahinton]

and barely a whimper of protest.

Perhaps because we taxpayers have always been the shareholders - or do I mean that we shareholders have always been the taxpayers?...

[ahinton]

I share your concern, but the privatisation aspect of the NHS is a serous matter and deserves more than emotional statements. Privatisation cannot by law go above 49% of income, never mind turnover.

When was the last time you pitched up at your local hospital's open board meeting? Have you got yourself onto your local patient and public involvement group? Made any locally meaningful FOIA requests lately?

I'm not knocking you, I'm asking those rhetorical questions to provoke thought.

Those are valid points and I can understand your posoing those questions, rhetorical or otherwise, but what practical and material differences could it possibly guarantee if anyone did any of those things that you mention? The NHS doesn't belong to anyone except the government - a government which, incidentally, includes those who would like to scrap the entire FOI procedure anyway (along with that other gross inconvenience, the Human Rights Act).

I had to attend A&E not so long ago; when I left, I was somewhat dazed still and I suppose that this fact might possibly have accounted in part for my having gone to reception with my credit card and asked how much I owed. I was advised that I did not actually owe anything but that I could make a donation if so I chose. Before I could think what to do about this, a woman standing behind me told me to do no such thing as this was out of order and she asked that, if I had transportation, I leave the premises before anything further about this might be said or done - she was an NHS GP and she issued a formal complaint.

The law prescribes what should and should not be done, not what is or is not done, methinks.