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Originally Posted by Greg Pope
By next year spending on the NHS will have triple under Labour - it's not perfect I know
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Greg, I am sure that I don't need to point out to you that just throwing money at something does not make it work any better. I firmly believe the main problem with the NHS is the way it is managed from the top down - I think many of the staff are incompetent but that is because they are allowed to be by their superiors ( for want of a better word). Explain to me why consultants are allowed to use NHS hospitals to see private patients? They could be seeing NHS patients in that time and reduce waiting list's. I suspect they pay something to the hospital for the services used. I bet they don'y pay for some of their secretary's wages. I think that is poor management of hospital time and resources.
I have a little (probably long) example for you.
I had an appointment last wednesday with my consultant following an operation I had 12 months ago. The last time I saw him he wanted to see me in 4 weeks but due to appointments it ended up being 6 or 7. I walked into the room to find the wrong doctor sat in the chair. No explanation as to where my consultant was. He basicly asked me why I was there. I explained that after surgery, the results had been superb but the original problem had slowly started to return and, at my last appointent my medication had been changed as a trial. I told him that it was no better and possibly even worse than the original medication. At this he said he did not now what to do. He asked me if my consultant had said what he was going to do if I was no better and was he going to operate again. That is when I told him that I was very upset that I had wasted my time and taken time of work to go to hospital and waste the Doctors time and the Nurses time and the hospital resources to see a man who could do nothing without speaking to my consultant who had decided to take annual leave when he was supposed to be in clinic all day. I asked how many other people had wasted their time that day. The outcome of all this waste of NHS time and money as well as my time is that I have another appointment with my consultant on thursday morning. It will be rather interesting if my consultant is not there. After all his secretary thinks he will be so he can't be on leave still. I would be interested to know how many days annual leave a consultant gets, maybe somebody knows.
So throwing money at the NHS is not improving much. It is not making doctors and nurses wash their hands, although when I was in the doctors did and the nurses did not. All this money did not put my daughter in an isolation ward so she did not infect other poorly children when she was in hospital recently. Infact all this extra money did not even make anyone clean the floor when she was sick all over it.
Please explain to us Greg what
THREE TIMES as much money has actually done to reduce MRSA in our hospitals and improve services in general. My mother in law recently had her operation cancelled because there was no bed for her. This was an operation booked months ago, how can that happen? You would not be impressed if you had your holiday cancelled because they had no plane to take you. We all know that no bed really means no staff. What has
THREE TIMES as much money done to increase staffing levels?