Me and my wife are doing BOTH VOTES SNP to help deal with this.
If we want to improve Scotland we have to vote for the party of Scotland. No solution will be achieved by voting for Red or Blue Tories who only care about NHS England.
Older population who are sicker; a lot of health issues even amongst working age; and as Covid showed – a lot of obesity which didn’t help with those bad chests and cardiovascular systems.
840,000 compared to what? Population is bigger than 50 years ago – is the percentage waiting the same? Are they also waiting for complex interventions that aren’t just a quick in and out.
Doing a dump of stats sats next to nothing complex and just invites attempts at easy answers.
Would also say that upstream efforts to improve resilience such as quality housing, good urban environments that invite good physical and mental health; having people with a sense of agency so that they actually feel they are worth something and investing in the future. But that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker.
yet no Scottish or UK political party wants to address any of the actual issues?
– namely that the population as a whole is getting older and/or sicker
– second to this, a lot of A and E’s time is spent dealing with people who have had too much to drink, or who are habitual attenders for minor issues that are neither an accident nor an emergency, or who have issues caused by their own lifestyle(s)/choice(s) over years/decades
add these together and the waiting list inevitably balloons
the solution always given is: *’just fund it more bro, more funding will definitely save it’* …..as doctors and nurses flee in droves and productivity is rock bottom
– lastly, particularly specific to NHS Scotland: a succession of health ministers who have all been inept and clueless, made terrible decisions as a result and yet: remain dangerously confident in their own abilities
– ah well, perhaps some more clapping, some more screeching about *’OUR NHS’*, and some more fart-sniffing about *’well at least we aren’t paying a billion pounds for an ambulance like the US system lmao’* will save us?
– j/k, it won’t. if any political party or government minister is serious about sorting the NHS out i.e reforming it, they should look to the various healthcare systems in europe for inspiration
The big problem across the UK is that long term illness(including mental health issues) is rampant.
People are healthier when they have more time to engage in recreation + fitness and have more money to spend on decent nutritional food and things that make them happy.
Happy people are healthy people.
One easy improvement is to tie the national minimum wage to inflation or the real living wage and improve workers rights including boosting statutory sick pay and minimum annual leave entitlement.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for Labour to change much there.
The English government, which controls budgets, is on a mission to kill the NHS buy forcing fed up people to go private, and then saying “look, people prefer private”
Anyone who has lived in the USA can tell you how awesome this will be. /s
Well, good news. The NHS plan is to save money at the expense of waiting times, so things are only going to get worse.
They’re refusing to fill vacancies. They’re cutting back clinic sessions and operating theatre capacity. Proposed expansions like the National Treatment Centres have been cancelled. I’ve even heard the word “redundancy” being muttered.
And after over four years of reduced activity (some of it unavoidable, granted), we are now seeing more complex patients that take more time. They spend more time in hospital. Surgeries take longer. They need longer clinic appointments. And this costs more money.
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Me and my wife are doing BOTH VOTES SNP to help deal with this.
If we want to improve Scotland we have to vote for the party of Scotland. No solution will be achieved by voting for Red or Blue Tories who only care about NHS England.
Older population who are sicker; a lot of health issues even amongst working age; and as Covid showed – a lot of obesity which didn’t help with those bad chests and cardiovascular systems.
840,000 compared to what? Population is bigger than 50 years ago – is the percentage waiting the same? Are they also waiting for complex interventions that aren’t just a quick in and out.
Doing a dump of stats sats next to nothing complex and just invites attempts at easy answers.
Would also say that upstream efforts to improve resilience such as quality housing, good urban environments that invite good physical and mental health; having people with a sense of agency so that they actually feel they are worth something and investing in the future. But that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker.
[Already posted](https://reddit.com/comments/1d2h8dd)
entirely unsurprising
yet no Scottish or UK political party wants to address any of the actual issues?
– namely that the population as a whole is getting older and/or sicker
– second to this, a lot of A and E’s time is spent dealing with people who have had too much to drink, or who are habitual attenders for minor issues that are neither an accident nor an emergency, or who have issues caused by their own lifestyle(s)/choice(s) over years/decades
add these together and the waiting list inevitably balloons
the solution always given is: *’just fund it more bro, more funding will definitely save it’* …..as doctors and nurses flee in droves and productivity is rock bottom
– lastly, particularly specific to NHS Scotland: a succession of health ministers who have all been inept and clueless, made terrible decisions as a result and yet: remain dangerously confident in their own abilities
– ah well, perhaps some more clapping, some more screeching about *’OUR NHS’*, and some more fart-sniffing about *’well at least we aren’t paying a billion pounds for an ambulance like the US system lmao’* will save us?
– j/k, it won’t. if any political party or government minister is serious about sorting the NHS out i.e reforming it, they should look to the various healthcare systems in europe for inspiration
The big problem across the UK is that long term illness(including mental health issues) is rampant.
People are healthier when they have more time to engage in recreation + fitness and have more money to spend on decent nutritional food and things that make them happy.
Happy people are healthy people.
One easy improvement is to tie the national minimum wage to inflation or the real living wage and improve workers rights including boosting statutory sick pay and minimum annual leave entitlement.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for Labour to change much there.
The English government, which controls budgets, is on a mission to kill the NHS buy forcing fed up people to go private, and then saying “look, people prefer private”
Anyone who has lived in the USA can tell you how awesome this will be. /s
Well, good news. The NHS plan is to save money at the expense of waiting times, so things are only going to get worse.
They’re refusing to fill vacancies. They’re cutting back clinic sessions and operating theatre capacity. Proposed expansions like the National Treatment Centres have been cancelled. I’ve even heard the word “redundancy” being muttered.
And after over four years of reduced activity (some of it unavoidable, granted), we are now seeing more complex patients that take more time. They spend more time in hospital. Surgeries take longer. They need longer clinic appointments. And this costs more money.