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hifinutt
not be hi lo beds maybe ?How can a bed be not fit for purpose?
not compatible with pressure relief mattress maybe ??
not be hi lo beds maybe ?How can a bed be not fit for purpose?
So why did they build the sodding hospitals when they had no staff?In reality, thousands of unrequired beds taking up space are a liability rather than an asset.
Dear keith, Many of you will know that last Friday, EveryDoctor revealed new information on our map of privatisation, detailing the private ambulance companies that are infiltrating the NHS. Our team has been working extremely hard on this project, and some of the examples have been shocking. A private security company (that you might have already heard of) called G4S and a private commercial property company are both running ambulance services. It is incredibly important that everyone understands what politicians are doing to the NHS, and so we asked our network to help us to raise public awareness about the situation. The response from our network was incredible- within hours, #NHSPrivateAmbulances was the 3rd trending topic on Twitter in the UK. Over 20,000 tweets were written, and our case examples were shared far and wide. This work is crucial; the government has no mandate to privatise the NHS, and in order to push back against what they are doing, everyone needs to understand what’s going on. Please will you join EveryDoctor as a member today, to support our work? Just click below, it takes one minute to join! |
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Dear keith,
Our research into NHS privatisation is revealing some *incredibly concerning* information. We found one example last week of a private company called “HealthShare”. The company runs over 70 NHS services, and is owned by 4 of the biggest banks- Natwest, HSBC, RBS and Barclays.
If that wasn’t bad enough, we’ve now discovered that Lloyds Bank is involved in NHS privatisation too, because they own a private company called “ConnectHealth”.
Big banks have no place in the NHS, and NHS privatisation is bad for everyone. It’s bad for patients, bad for staff, and bad for the future of the NHS. We’ll be putting all of this information (and much more) onto our ground-breaking map of NHS privatisation very soon.
The good news is that our work is reaching larger audiences than ever before. We’ve just started making short videos with updates about our NHS privatisation research, and they’re being watched hundreds of thousands of times across social media platforms.
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They won't 'scrap' it, they'll just nibble away at it until it is hollowed out. Then they'll put it out of its (and our) misery. There is rising dissatisfaction with the NHS - rising wait times, difficulties in getting GP appointments. People are being softened up to welcome what comes next as an improvement on what we now have. By and large it escapes public notice that the present parlous state is a result of deliberate government mismanagement. Covid is serving as a very handy scapegoat for the woes of the NHS, and if you banged pots on a Thursday night, you should be up in arms about it.No political party will ever scrap the NHS. It would be political suicide.
They won't 'scrap' it, they'll just nibble away at it until it is hollowed out. Then they'll put it out of its (and our) misery. There is rising dissatisfaction with the NHS - rising wait times, difficulties in getting GP appointments. People are being softened up to welcome what comes next as an improvement on what we now have. By and large it escapes public notice that the present parlous state is a result of deliberate government mismanagement. Covid is serving as a very handy scapegoat for the woes of the NHS, and if you banged pots on a Thursday night, you should be up in arms about it.
Your response makes you seem clueless and gullible MickP. And lacking in imagination. ( Or perhaps you or your pals are invested in some way in the out-sourcing game?)Various services of the NHS such as cleaning etc have been outsourced since the days of Tony Blair. Every contract is renewed by competitive tender normally on three year cycles. This is not takeover, it is outsourcing and there is a massive difference.
The UK public can take most things but the NHS is all but a sacred cow and will not be slaughtered. However it does make lovely subject for the chattering classes.
Much like no political party has actually scrapped dental care.No political party will ever scrap the NHS. It would be political suicide.
Sorry, but outsourcing is just another word for privatised, it is no protection against privatisation, it is privatisation. The bottom line is that this privatisation has been going on for decades, it is increasing.Various services of the NHS such as cleaning etc have been outsourced since the days of Tony Blair. Every contract is renewed by competitive tender normally on three year cycles. This is not takeover, it is outsourcing and there is a massive difference.
The UK public can take most things but the NHS is all but a sacred cow and will not be slaughtered. However it does make lovely subject for the chattering classes.
That is a model for turning the NHS into a fund provider, not a health provider.My good friend recently had a cateract done at private hospital on the NHS . it was free at the point of need
And what should happen in that situation is that the NHS gets to bill the private sector for the work it does to care for the private patient. There's logic in a private sector which takes care of elective stuff, maybe specialisations such as orthopedics, sports medicine, cosmetic and reconstructive stuff, stuff like that. And the private sector won't need acute care, emergency facilities and so-on, and should be able to call upon the NHS resources - where these things should reside - as and when needed. But they should pay for that in exactly the same way that the NHS pays for private care when its own capacity has been exceeded.Of course many will argue they cherry pick as if things go wrong with private ops very often the nhs has to step in and sort it out . Got a good friend rehabilitating in local NHS hospital now after a private op got infected . its a tricky situation
But that is the real point. The NHS has been underfunded so is not able to provide Care on time. However, the NHS is paying out for a private health care company to do the operation *and* for that companies profits.you make a good point KS , however this 91 year old got his op in record time enabling a few months more of life . if he had to wait a year then he would never have made it to get the op . Is it not better to mop up spare capacity from the private sector ?