Calling all those who love the NHS! We've got a fight on our hands...
Today, the "I Love the NHS" march took place in London. Around 7000 doctors, nurses and members of the public marched their socks off to campaign against the privatisation of the service, and hats off to them. A huge chunk of the NHS has already been privatised under the Conservative and Labour governments - hospital services such as catering, laundry and maintenance are often carried out by private companies. As well as this, some of the big management positions have been filled over the years by people who have nothing to do with the NHS - the government have invited tops dogs in 'Tarmac' and 'Sainsbury's' to name a few, to manage a considerable portion of the NHS, with a considerable salary. Now the Conservatives are saying there should be more competition in health care.
Why do we need competitiveness in health care? Surely, if you're ill, you're ill. Choosing heath care is not like choosing between Sony and Panasonic, is it?! Sometimes I do wonder whether our politician's cerebral hemispheres have been misplaced...
It clearly looks like the NHS is in for a bumpy ride over the next few years, with administrators thinking they know best, private companies getting excited about how many pounds sterling they can milk out of the service, and the government thinking this is all beneficial to the UK population. Time to roll up our sleeves and get the rolling pins out!
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2 comments:
Need to have a very long discussion with you about this - it's one of my favourite moans - will have to have a revision of one of the books on my OU course first to back up my arguments. Amanda
Road construction companies running the NHS goes a long way to explain the long delay's in the NHS given the time of roadworks lol.
Seriously though, the NHS really should be something to be cherished, though I can say that working in one of the countries top hospitals Cardiothoracic unit the NHS really can pull out the stops and give great care.
It's the bottom percentile (i.e. s**thole's the even the cockroache's consider too shabby) that the press highlight all the time to whip up public frenzy. The government love this as it then give's them some figure's to sex up and make a case to pawn the NHS off to a private firm (but keep a nice %age of all that lovelly tax that the population would pay though for that service).
All part of El Gordo's great plan based on the 2006 report of "The economy may be a bit screwed: way's of saving money, and fast".
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