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Originally Posted by DAV007
Sorry Guinness, let me explain.
I think political interference has damaged the NHS.
Looking back over the past 10 years alone, Labour had the obsession with waiting list and KPI's that hospital manager and care trusts where more interested in the figures than patients.
It would be interesting if the NHS could have an over seeing care trust of experts.
Of course, the danger of such a organisation is it could be unaccountable and open to outside interest groups.
Thus, if all private provision was removed, in theory you would remove a significant proportion of the private pressure groups.
I assume it would still be accountable to politicians who could influence it by how it was accountable, but it may help reduce the influence.
There are still lots of problems and questions. For example, we are reliant on the drug companies to bring about new innovations and developments.
How do we ensure the tax payer is not being ripped off?
Although this problem exists at the moment.
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Personally I think it's the interpretation of the previous governments policy by the bureaucratic civil service that has screwed the NHS.
Cutting down waiting lists and ensuring people are seen when they are ill was a bloody good policy.
Unfortunately the Sir Humphreys and associated jobsworths screwed the pooch by employing an interminable amount of managers and inbetweeners to lick envelopes, buy stamps and have meetings about where to buy the envelopes and which is the best day to post the appointments, leaving no money to pay for nurses and doctors to actually keep these appointments.
Heard a story this week about someone seriously ill who was sent to RBH by their doctor and had to wait for over 6 hours to get a bed because according to RBH records said person was already dead. That's not government..thats incompetence!
Let me give you another...some guy with learning disabilities has to go into hospital..LCC stop paying the minute he goes into hospital because the NHS has to foot the bill, however it takes time for the cumbersome NHS to get its act in gear, meanwhile nurses who are not equipped to deal with said challenging behaviour guy treat him as a normal patient, staff who can deal with him are not being paid and aren't there to assist...food is left for him but guy doesn't eat or drink without support..he gets worse..he puts an even bigger burden on services..he becomes disruptive..does a runner or maybe even dies...who takes the blame....who is responsible?
Social services say they are following guidelines, so does the NHS...somebody dies unnecessarily and nobody is to blame, meanwhile Cameron and Osborne can still say there have been no cuts to frontline services.....go figure!