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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
there is an election coming up so watch out for the dirty press making more nonsense stories up  but the cuts in the nhs are costing lives. anybody who can't notice the nhs improved and was better under labour are in cloud cuckoo land. at least they had an agenda to bring waiting times down . the tories just want to privatize it and when its gone its gone. |
I'm afraid that turned out to be "smoking mirrors"; for instance the waiting time for hip replacements was approximately two years until Labour's apparent success in bringing the waiting time down to a few months. All the statistics showed the new system was working.
Unfortunately, what actually happened was that every department was making sure it met deadlines by unnecessarily passing patients from one consultant to another consultant. and in the case of hip replacements, I have one relative (and heard of others) who lived in excruciating pain for two years being passed along the departments until his hip operation.