Author Topic: The end of the NHS. (Read 1645 times)

fatkid2000 · « **on:** March 03, 2013, 08:13:01 pm »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9901194/Scrap-NHS-competition-rules-say-1000-in-letter-to-Telegraph.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21649307

For the first time ever Royal Colleges are engaging in political and contractual issues regarding the future of the NHS. There is serious concern that this is the start of the break up. This is not doctors protecting themselves - the profession is trying to protect the health service but I fear it will be to no avail.

tomtom · « **Reply #1 on:** March 03, 2013, 10:14:02 pm »

Don't things come into effect on the 1st April? (It's getting a bit late...)

erm, sam · « **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2013, 09:26:26 am »

It is also not a surprise. Anybody who honestly thought this wasn't going to happen is a fucking idiot.

Obi-Wan is lost... · « **Reply #3 on:** March 04, 2013, 10:21:10 am »

Quote from: erm, sam on March 04, 2013, 09:26:26 am

It is also not a surprise. Anybody who honestly thought this wasn't going to happen is a fucking idiot.

Or reads the wrong paper. A few weeks ago Mrs Obi was talking to a family friend, regular Torygraph reader. She had now clue it was even on the agenda. Good to see them now publishing something about the break up. The BBC hardly cover it either.

Jaspersharpe · « **Reply #4 on:** March 04, 2013, 01:13:39 pm »

Probably not much use but the way I see it doing something is better than doing nothing:

https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/nhs-section-75-legal-advice-speakout

mrjonathanr · « **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2013, 08:28:55 pm »

^^ Was Going to post the 38* link. Click on it and add your name.

It would be constructive if the vote stalled till after 2015 when the vultures will be out of office.

Interesting that the UKB home page with its intro

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Welcome to ukb. Forum threads promoted to this page are ones we think are important or significant.

leads on the Dead Fit Birds poll but omits the privatisation of the NHS.

GCW · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2013, 09:57:51 pm »

Where to start? There are so many facets!

ukb · « **Reply #7 on:** March 05, 2013, 06:48:32 am »

Quote from: mrjonathanr on March 04, 2013, 08:28:55 pm

Interesting that the UKB home page with its intro
Quote
Welcome to ukb. Forum threads promoted to this page are ones we think are important or significant.
leads on the Dead Fit Birds poll but omits the privatisation of the NHS.

Happy now?

psychomansam · « **Reply #8 on:** March 06, 2013, 08:56:12 pm »

The healthcare apocalypse is being slowed down

http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-commons-21673110

mrjonathanr · « **Reply #9 on:** March 06, 2013, 10:16:39 pm »

Quote from: ukb on March 05, 2013, 06:48:32 am

Happy now?

Yep. That's better

fatdoc · « **Reply #10 on:** March 06, 2013, 10:44:04 pm »

Respect fatkid2000

It's all about to go Pete tong....

Watch this spec peeps..

Adge · « **Reply #11 on:** April 24, 2013, 11:03:50 pm »

Tonight the house of lords has approved the privatisation of the NHS, in what seems a very strange almost news blackout about it.

Adge · « **Reply #12 on:** April 25, 2013, 08:34:11 am »

bye bye NHS

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/section-75-last-ditch-bid-stop-1852287

You would think this would be massive news everywhere. Why is it barely being reported.

Can we have a turning in his grave smiley for nye bevin please!

slackline · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2013, 08:50:53 am »

Not massively surprising as I expect many sitting in the House of Lords have conflicts of interest.

Adge · « **Reply #14 on:** April 25, 2013, 08:58:03 am »

Quote from: slackline on April 25, 2013, 08:50:53 am

Not massively surprising as I expect many sitting in the House of Lords have conflicts of interest.

hi buddy.

Not surprising at all. Many do indeed have vested interests.

I find the lack of reporting odd though.

Still, bristol royal infirmary is getting a 5 million pound mini shopping mall.

We'll just have to make sure we don't get any chronic unprofitable diseases in future.

benpritch · « **Reply #15 on:** April 25, 2013, 09:02:18 am »

I'm with you on the non reporting, barely a murmur. Only a couple of mentions on twitter. Weird really. How can one of our greatest institutions disappear without anybody noticing?

slackline · « **Reply #16 on:** April 25, 2013, 09:05:45 am »

This may be the final nail in the coffin, but it seemed pretty much inevitable to me after all attempts and campaigns failed last year.

Obi-Wan is lost... · « **Reply #17 on:** April 25, 2013, 09:09:29 am »

Similarly to the power industry, in a few years we will see Serco, Virgin et al creaming more massive profits from the NHS, service will be the same or worse, and MP shareholders will be on their boards on massive salaries and dividends. There will be little or no 'competition' for the public to benefit from.

There will be a lot more of this...
http://www.careukselfpay.com/treatments

Notice that Dupuytrens is in that list.

GCW · « **Reply #18 on:** April 25, 2013, 10:54:03 am »

The whole swathe of NHS reforms has been unilateral on the government's side.

NHS111 was always going to be a disaster, we all said it would be a disaster but it was bulldozered through. And it's a disaster.

Commissioning wasn't something GPs wanted, it was pushed upon them.

The changes to the GP contract weren't agreed by the GPs or the BMA, they were unilaterally altered by the Government.

See a theme?

andy_e · « **Reply #19 on:** April 25, 2013, 10:57:48 am »

Adge · « **Reply #20 on:** April 25, 2013, 11:18:00 am »

Virgin - half price return rail ticket with every bypass

Tesco - buy 2 dialysis sessions, get 3rd free

Sainsbury - nectar points with every chemo

Kwik fit - will take used kidney in part exchange for any organ transplant

fatkid2000 · « **Reply #21 on:** April 25, 2013, 02:43:12 pm »

There's an ongoing theme. Mr Hunt is forever blaming GPs for the lack of ooh &'A&E attendance. There was a junior health minister who stated radio 4 that there is no ooh service. That is utter rubbish. The enormous increase in A&E is not just due to GPs.

Under the new NHS arrangements we virtually got no practice income this month. We're down by thousands and the partners virtually got no pay.

This coupled with an enforced contract, a stack of new work.

A thing called AQP - I.e virgin bidding for our work. Don't be surprised if your local NHS services disappear.

The DoH has no interest in quality and only cares about box ticking.

5 years and it will be gone. Country needs to decide NHS or trident?

I suspect I'll be richer if it gets privatised but the country's health will be far worse.

Adge · « **Reply #22 on:** April 25, 2013, 03:12:11 pm »

Trident is so much shit.

After last night, i am already planning a medicine bank to run alongside our estate food bank.

SamT · « **Reply #23 on:** April 25, 2013, 04:04:03 pm »

Clearly Eddie Mair deems the story of the real heroes of telemark more news worthy than this... unbelievable. $:-\$

psychomansam · « **Reply #24 on:** April 25, 2013, 04:12:22 pm »

Quote from: Obi-Wan is lost... on April 25, 2013, 09:09:29 am

Similarly to the power industry, in a few years we will see Serco, Virgin et al creaming more massive profits from the NHS, service will be the same or worse, and MP shareholders will be on their boards on massive salaries and dividends. There will be little or no 'competition' for the public to benefit from.

There will be a lot more of this...
http://www.careukselfpay.com/treatments

Notice that Dupuytrens is in that list.

Interesting that CareUK list four locations in the UK, but fail to mention Luxembourg, where there profits go, tax-free(avoided)