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Originally Posted by entwisi
In theabsence of any political party showing any CS what policies would you like to see. Please try and keep it sensible. I'll start off.
A block on immigration for 5 years to get a handle on those who are already here and to decide a sensible level of immigration, Let the rest of Europe look after their share. Any illegals are deported immediately back to their country of origin.
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Scotland and Wales need migration as their populations are falling as people move to the 'heart of europe' [Rhine-Benelux-Paris/London]. Its having an impact on rural as well as urban communities who are having to manage decline.
Here in the North West we are importing all sorts of profesionals due to our dopey leaders of past. In Hyndburn dentists from Poland are arriving so we can have dentists for 'those that have to work for a living'. If your suggesting that we all have rotten teeth so you get to keep 'your' immigrants out then you wouldn't get my vote.[I often suspect what is really meant is Asians rather than immigrants]
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Originally Posted by entwisi
Removal of all the levels of middle management from the NHS that have been introduced in the last 20 years. Lets get back to giving teh people on the ground the power to make things right there and then. The money saved should go towards giving a decent salary to nurses and doctors.
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The NHS has the biggest bureacracy in Europe if you count anyone who ever uses a pen once during the day. Our Health Authority here in Hyndburn spends 3.5% on management, in line with the NHS average. On the continent it is much higher because they health care, whilst subsidised, is run by the more expensive private sector. This problem is exacerbated in the US and is the reason why US citizens spend 14% of GDP on healthcare as opposed to 8-10% in europe. Britain needs to keep accelerating public expenditure in Health Care for the next few years to get to 8% of GDp from the 4% it was for many years. It was a miracle Health Care was provided at such levels.
Take MRSA. In the early 90's when weaker strains began to profilerate it was jumped on in Europe and is largely absent now. However an underfunded NHS with contracted out cleaners resulted in poor cleanliness and little will/effort to control infections. No records were ever kept until around 2000 at which point there was at least the will to recognise and do something about.
The NHS will never correct 20 years of decline in 6 years. Like doctor and dentist training [7 years]. You have to work out that snap judgements and daft political rhetoric lead to foolish policy.