Keir Starmer pledges to tackle ‘bureaucratic nonsense’ to save NHS

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  1. Wow. No political party has ever announced *that* intention before!!

    What next? Will he want to ‘raise standards’ in education? Be ‘tough’ on crime??

    Radical concepts I know!

    Perhaps he’ll show us how serious he isn’t doing some Tony Blair hand gestures?!

  2. Er, cancer and heart disease might seem like important issues but I think societal progression matters a little bit more. I hope he’s not including Diversity & Inclusion Officers in this, because every one is worth a dozen doctors.

  3. “Order a test for internal bleeding” I think you need a bit more intervention than a test if you’re bleeding internally.

  4. How about we match the funding of the nhs to closer to that of our peers?

    Our NHS is one of the most efficnant there is, it just needs funding properly

  5. Sounds similar to the same old nonsense that too many managers are the reason the NHS is in trouble.

    The simple fact is that the NHS has less capacity per person than it had previously. Through underfunding, bad management, reduced training opportunities, amalgamating care and reducing services whilst the population itself has grown.

    He’s probably got 2 years before he gets a chance to do anything, I hope Labour comes up with some concrete plans by then. Sitting on the fence but getting in because they are not the Tories isn’t going to cut it when they are in power.

  6. Fire every person that has ‘diversity’ in their job title. It’s not a job, let alone a fucking £85-120K a year job.

    Could fire every single fucking one of them, and no one would notice.

  7. Self referral doesnt seem a good idea to me. You will have people clogging up appointments with specialists who dont need them

    And for example take a bad back. 2 friends of friends presented to the docs with a bad back. Turns out the backache was a sympton of cancer they had and the doc picked this up and got them treated asap. This could be missed if you miss out that GP appointment

  8. lol, we all know exactly what he’s getting at

    He just can’t bring himself to say it so he gets Wes Streeting to do it

  9. Hmmm. You’ll have to forgive me for being wary of talk of “bureaucratic nonsense”, given we still haven’t cleaned the shit out of our rivers and seas that magically appeared after the last time we “got rid of bureaucratic nonsense”.

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