The BBC has been putting out some really good facts and perspective articles lately.
Does anyone else remember, before the last election, when an itv journalist tried showing Boris Johnson a picture of some boy that had to wait in a corridor and Boris tried nicking his phone? I think it got overshadowed by the hiding in a fridge thing but it was still a pretty weird moment
> The truth is the past decade has been a story of lengthening waits and declining performance.
And
> This should not come as a surprise, as NHS spending has been squeezed.
Throwing money at the NHS will be part of the solution for a while, but like going on a first it’s not sustainable; we need a lifestyle change and that is going to need a multi-factor approach.
From increasing active travel, to free school meals. The less strain put on the NHS through basics (e.g. being overweight) means more resources where there is t a quick fix (e.g. mental health).
What we **do not** need is public funding being spunked into private companies owned by Tory cronies.
Troops staffing hospitals are *incidental* deployments!
Surely the answer to this question is, the NHS is in one constant ongoing crisis thanks to the Tories so how is this question even relevant?
The elephant in the room is how unhealthy the UK is in general. Hospitals are the end point of healthcare, but the problems begin much earlier. It’s no coincidence Japan and Vietnam have two of the lowest obesity rates in the world and two of the lowest covid death rates, [of the 2.5 million covid-19 deaths reported by the end of February 2021, 2.2 million were in countries where over half the population is classified as overweight](https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n623). If it wasn’t covid, then some other disease would’ve come along and exposed our health time bomb eventually.
Its what this govt want you to believe,that the NHS can’t cope,so that they can privatize certain areas that they can make most money on
The NHS is in a position now where its shortcomings are being driven by the low salaries. They need to massively increase the wages of pretty much all the support staff from Nurses, to HCAs to Porters and reintroduce the bursaries on their pre-Tory terms.
This will attract people to work for the NHS, reducing their need to rely on private companies to fill staffing gaps and be cheaper in the long run.
Well, yes. It has fewer staff than ever.
Many of the staff it does have are off with COVID.
Primary care is creaking.
And the pandemic is ongoing.
And we can compare this to 2017/18 where for a couple of months a lot of people died with – restrictions.
However, for much of the last 2 years >100 people a day have consistently been dying.
So this crisis is worse, because it’s been going on for much longer with much more wide reaching consequences.
Well put it this way.
People are so sick of restrictions of a pandemic that they are even coming down from Scotland to less-restricted England to enjoy themselves.
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The BBC has been putting out some really good facts and perspective articles lately.
Does anyone else remember, before the last election, when an itv journalist tried showing Boris Johnson a picture of some boy that had to wait in a corridor and Boris tried nicking his phone? I think it got overshadowed by the hiding in a fridge thing but it was still a pretty weird moment
> The truth is the past decade has been a story of lengthening waits and declining performance.
And
> This should not come as a surprise, as NHS spending has been squeezed.
Throwing money at the NHS will be part of the solution for a while, but like going on a first it’s not sustainable; we need a lifestyle change and that is going to need a multi-factor approach.
From increasing active travel, to free school meals. The less strain put on the NHS through basics (e.g. being overweight) means more resources where there is t a quick fix (e.g. mental health).
What we **do not** need is public funding being spunked into private companies owned by Tory cronies.
Troops staffing hospitals are *incidental* deployments!
Surely the answer to this question is, the NHS is in one constant ongoing crisis thanks to the Tories so how is this question even relevant?
The elephant in the room is how unhealthy the UK is in general. Hospitals are the end point of healthcare, but the problems begin much earlier. It’s no coincidence Japan and Vietnam have two of the lowest obesity rates in the world and two of the lowest covid death rates, [of the 2.5 million covid-19 deaths reported by the end of February 2021, 2.2 million were in countries where over half the population is classified as overweight](https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n623). If it wasn’t covid, then some other disease would’ve come along and exposed our health time bomb eventually.
Its what this govt want you to believe,that the NHS can’t cope,so that they can privatize certain areas that they can make most money on
The NHS is in a position now where its shortcomings are being driven by the low salaries. They need to massively increase the wages of pretty much all the support staff from Nurses, to HCAs to Porters and reintroduce the bursaries on their pre-Tory terms.
This will attract people to work for the NHS, reducing their need to rely on private companies to fill staffing gaps and be cheaper in the long run.
Well, yes. It has fewer staff than ever.
Many of the staff it does have are off with COVID.
Primary care is creaking.
And the pandemic is ongoing.
And we can compare this to 2017/18 where for a couple of months a lot of people died with – restrictions.
However, for much of the last 2 years >100 people a day have consistently been dying.
So this crisis is worse, because it’s been going on for much longer with much more wide reaching consequences.
Well put it this way.
People are so sick of restrictions of a pandemic that they are even coming down from Scotland to less-restricted England to enjoy themselves.