Falling NHS continuity of care poses ‘existential threat’ to patient safety | Britain’s top family doctor to warn of ‘most worrying crisis in decades’ with shrinking numbers of GPs and soaring demand
Falling NHS continuity of care poses ‘existential threat’ to patient safety | Britain’s top family doctor to warn of ‘most worrying crisis in decades’ with shrinking numbers of GPs and soaring demand
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Cue the government’s pretend look of shock as they wonder *how this could have happened*
Who on earth would want to be a GP these days?
Tory policy working as intended then.
It’s almost as if the Tory M.O is to destroy the NHS so they can shift over to a US style healthcare system which is even more punitive towards working class/poor people. Which the Tory scumbags and their cunt friends will profit greatly from, I may add.
Welcome to Tory Britain!
If you count the ones that didn’t quit, as is the way this ‘government’ counts, how close are we to the additional 50,000 more nurses? If you count the number of hospitals that didn’t close, as is…..(see previous sentence), how close are we to the new hospitals target? Never mind. I haven’t got news for you.
Kneecap the NHS then wonder why it is hobbled. The Tories are destroying the NHS and selling it off to their buddies.
It’s almost as if a decade plus of funding cuts have led to them not having enough funding…
It seems that there are more than enough people who *would like* to become physicians – medicine courses always have crazy amounts of candidates per place and very high requirements – but there are bottlenecks in training and funding.
The problem is we have been fed an entirely false narrative.
The crisis is generated by the restructuring of GP lists to primary healthcare based on the business model of untied health. The former employer of Simon Stevens CEO NHS England. Where he was the CEO of global expansion.
He and hancock gave assurances to the health select committee (chaired by the former health sec jeremy hunt…sketchy AF?) that although the changes in GP contracts may leave a loop hole for private firms to come in a take control of GP practices which were mostly owner operated businesses which contract to the NHS. They assured the committee this would not happen presumably these had their pinkies crossed behind their backs at the time… It might of been the health selct committee session where hancock made a big table thumping statement about no more privatisation on his watch LO FING L whilst Stevens squirmed beside him.
Not 2 years later we had swathes of surgeries being hoovered up.
Before this bill went through the BMA had opportunity to organise. They did organise. TO BACK! the governments plans.
The BMA & GP’s had knowledge and opportunity to warn the public but they did not. The BMA is called a union but they are run and act in the interest of People who run 2 careers one where they swan in for procedures in the NHS and one where they do the full services for their private patients.
The administration of procedures in the nhs has become entirely dysfunctional because poorly trained inappropriately motivated admin staff run all the procedure bookings. Nurses that are entirely and rigidly following protocol without any option step out of lane if non standard issues arise. Are doing the pre operation patient surveys.
I have experienced this personally I have a operation booked and have repeatedly tried to raise concerns about another medical problem that was also picked in MRI scans but has just been ignored. So im about to go under the knife with fried adrenal glands and acute adrenaline fatigue. I have no idea if the stress of an operation will effect me… I spend half the time feeling like im about to have a stroke or something as it is.
My aunt has literally developed infections and had both of her kidneys destroyed while waiting for her cancer treatment while in the hospital. She kept being delayed while in hospital to the point where there’s nothing left to do for her and now she is literally dying. NHS is/has killed my aunt. I don’t know if to blame the government or the staff who didnt give a sht and just covered their backs by passing on my aunt’s issues but to me this is slow murder. Seeing her degrade so fast and still have no help from anyone whatsoever makes me question why is anyone paying any taxes and why those in charge are not paying with their lives. They should suffer the consequences of their actions instead of getting richer and richer by taking money from people who work. If i ever stole, i’d get arrested. If i kill someone, i am also arrested. I dont understand why being in power excuses you from these consequences when your actions affect masses and not just individuals. Those people need to pay.
Come on lads, think big society, who’s up for having a crack at it.
Meanwhile, their friends and family in the right wing press will blame the staff themselves for the state of the service, despite the staff being the only thing holding the NHS together at time. There seems to be this idea that the NHS wants a backlog that will take years to clear, or that it wants to put patient safety at risk, or that it wants 18 hour queues outside A&E. No one in the NHS is happy right now but it soldiers on as best as it can. There are members of the public who might want to remember that as they blame their GP for being unable to see them, even though GPs are leaving in droves and not being replaced, leading to a terrible GP to patient ratio. This is not how NHS staff want things either and more people should take that to heart.