There are some who are in favour of the new Bill, but they are not part of the mainstream [Clue: if they have letters after their names like OBE, MBE, CBE or DBE they will generally support the Government]
A poll from the Royal College of GPs is a damning indictment of the fact that Mr Lansley and Mr Cameron have no professional support from Jobbing Doctors.
According to a "source close to Mr Lansley", the findings lack credibility. I agree. Mr Lansley does not find them credible, because he has his own fixed delusion that we support him. He picks his advisers to confirm his own world view. He listens to no-one else.
We think this Bill stinks, and it will wreck the NHS.
If that is what the people want, then so be it. Don't complain in 5 years time if the privatised NHS behaves more and more like the current private sector.
You have been warned.
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It is unfortunate that the number of poll respondents was minute in relationship to the total number of GPs. I am sure this fact will be jumped upon by Lansley and will give further credence to his belief – whether real or imagined - that the HSCB is backed by the remainder/majority of GPs who did not bother to respond.
Apathy or indeed presuming others will fight the cause will be the downfall of the NHS as we know it (warts and all – yet more than worth saving).
Anna :o]
Or if they want letters after their name they will probably support it too.
Re "if the privatised NHS behaves more and more like the current private sector" what you mean I might actually get to see someone? i wont have to ring at precisely 9.00 am? I wont be offered "the only appointment we have is in 5 days time", I maybe given an appointment that has a reasonable chance of taking place at the time specified rather than quoted like 500 other people as 9.00 am when its bleeding obvious when you get there that the majority are going to be waiting all day many until past 5.00 pm?
i wont be prevented from having drugs that even those loosing tossers at NICE (no idea cunts exeptionale) have said should be freely available by a rag tag bunch of political arse holes who piss money away while preventing patients getting what they really need?
you mean customers may actually get some say?
you mean I get to choose my own GP and consultant?
you mean if the place is fucking dirty I can walk out and go somewhere else?
thank fuck for that
die nhs die its shit and we want rid of it
youre attempt at scaring us is failing badly
Anonymous - when your private operation goes wrong, where will your ITU bed be? When your substandard breast implant, hip replacement, heart valve needs replacing and your private clinic shuts down or declares or threatens bankruptcy, where will you go? When you reach the funding limit on your insurance policy, where will you go? Don't be in such a hurry to get rid of the NHS. It isn't perfect, but recent events have proved that neither is the private sector.
You are right anonymous; the NHS is far from perfect. However, if you need emergency medical care you won't need to produce your credit card on the way in! I suspect you have no idea at all what healthcare was like for ordinary people before the NHS was formed. No concept of not being able to go to the doctor at all because you couldn't afford it. Now the NHS groans under the weight of impossible expectations and a minority who totally abuse it and waste resources.
And if you can find a private company who wants to run an A&E department or a care of the elderly ward do let us all know. Truth is private companies will be happy to do your granny's hip operation, but they would not be interested in her chronic heart problems, or her disabling stroke. They won't touch anything that is long term and expensive and without any obvious profit. And if the hip operation goes badly, who do you think will have to put it right - the NHS again. That is what happens now,and the result is that the private companies make profits and the public pays twice.
If things go as badly as some well informed people believe you may be old and sick and very scared one day in the future. Just like the rest of us. And you might even wish that the NHS hadn't died even though you think "it is shit".
Amen to anonymous of 22.44 and 22.55.
Get real general public - unless you fight the HSCB - your life will be in your hands alone - for private providers will not give a damn.
Members of the medical and nursing professions - get your fingers out and do something! For Gods sake - do something!
Anna :o[
ive seen medical care in the rest of the developed world and i have been with poor people being admitted as emergency to hospital and never seen them asked for a credit card on the way in, not even in the US, this is pure scare mongering bollocks
so what if i end up in the NHS after an emergency I have paid for it the same as everyone else
the NHS clearly doesnt think the private hospital is doing a crap job because it sends lots of its own patients there
I have written the NHS off because in far too many cases I have seen first hand it has failed in the fucking basics
As someone with a chronic condition I know I'm better off with the NHS rather than uninsurable as I would be in the US. I've seen too many people there having to spend as much time fighting their insurers as dealing with any disease. It distresses me that no amount of comment from people who know this is a nightmare is stopping this Bill.
Anonymous, you are missing the point, there will not be an NHS to fall back on. If your NI contributions are given to you to purchase health care or insurance, where will the NHS funding come from
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