2015 UK General Election
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Cameron wont privatise the NHS. In fact he has a strong bond with the NHS which looked after his son Ivan.
Wonder if it was Peter Webb?BJGardner wrote:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gener ... 37309.html
Privatisation has already begun. Its just a matter of time before its an American style systemtweebie1999 wrote:Cameron wont privatise the NHS. In fact he has a strong bond with the NHS which looked after his son Ivan.
i dont believe the Tories have a mandate to do it either
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I agree on that Point too. My familly (quite clearly not as high profile as the pm) have had unbelievable help from nhs proffessionals all I can say is thankyou...tweebie1999 wrote:Cameron wont privatise the NHS. In fact he has a strong bond with the NHS which looked after his son Ivan.
But I am convicned that its innate Inefficiency is the route cause of why it costs so much...
A retired doctor I know well still carries out locum work as a hospital doctor on a part time basis...
recently he was asked to travell about 200 miles to cover at a hospital for 2 days only...
At the end of the first day he finished his clinics and asked to see then list of patients for the next day. he was then told that there was no list... taking this up with someone further up the management chain.. He was told and I quote: we rang a set of patients earlier to say the at a clinic had become available and would they like to attend? He was then told that not one person had elected to accept the offer of the availble clinic... stupified he took this further, putting two and two together and reading between the lines that no one... had been been contacted by the hospital administration atall...no one..
lets do the maths one doctor 2 days work plus expenses and over night accomodation...
work done one days clinic only... he returned home that evening fuming.
multiply that scenario out across the whole of the UK (possibly reduced in size) and we are talking Colossal sums of money.
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I think if the public knew how much it was possible to be paid for locum shifts by the NHS they would be amazed and also at how common such shift are.Groovyelms wrote:lets do the maths one doctor 2 days work plus expenses and over night accomodation...
work done one days clinic only... he returned home that evening fuming.
multiply that scenario out across the whole of the UK (possibly reduced in size) and we are talking Colossal sums of money.
There are a lot of Doctors making a lot of money out of locum work.