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Post by Pacifico on Nov 27, 2022 7:52:50 GMT
Nope, because I don't think its rainbows that are causing delays. But 12 years of austerity. Austerity? - the NHS had real terms rises in funding every year. Where has all that money gone?  |
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Post by totheleft3 on Nov 27, 2022 8:51:47 GMT
www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/austerity-covid-s-little-helper&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiqq72e_M37AhUShlwKHXzTBt0QFnoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw0zbBR4GYvyXVmuOI21BgZmDR Heather Grimbaldeston was used to having to balance the books – all too familiar with making ‘the public purse stretch’. But, as director of public health for Cheshire East in 2016, it was simply no longer possible.Years of brutal cuts to public health services, following NHS reform legislation passed in 2012 which moved public health from the NHS to local authorities whose budgets were hit the hardest, had taken their toll.‘I’ve always worked in areas which are under-resourced – I’ve done it and I’ve done it with the support of great colleagues and under difficult circumstances,’ Dr Grimbaldeston says.The years were tough. Mental health support services, smoking cessation support and sexual health services – among many others – suffered ‘extreme cuts’. Staff numbers dwindled and health protection, let alone health improvement, became notions of fantasy rather than reality. And eventually, it told. ‘I couldn’t make it work any longer,’ she admits.It has been heart-breaking to see the neglect of public healthDr GrimbaldestonFormer director of public health for Stockport Stephen Watkins can identify with the experiences of Dr Grimbaldeston. He says: ‘It has been heart-breaking to see the neglect of public health. I only retired about a year ago and for the last couple of years before that we had been trying to find ways to minimise damage. You couldn’t develop and extend services, you were in the business of trying to minimise damage.’This bleak landscape was not isolated to these two areas of the North West. Nationally, local authority budgets were cut by nearly a third from 2010 to 2018, according to the National Audit Office and the public health grant fell by £700m in real terms between 2014/15 and 2019/20, as revealed by a Health Foundation report.Across society a decade was defined by the destruction of a safety net built over many years. From the closure of Sure Start centres and libraries to the crumbling estates and rocketing vacancy lists of NHS organisations – few public services were left unscathed.The results of these political decisions have been damning. Life expectancy across England has stalled, the inequalities in life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas of the country have increased and the amount of time people spend in poor health has increased. At every step along the way doctors have felt the strain – whether in rocketing demand from patients or increasingly impossible working environments.‘Health is telling us something fundamental about the nature of society,’ University College London professor of epidemiology and public health Michael Marmot tells The Doctor. ‘If health stops improving it means society stops improving.’ Aurtristy in real terms yes.
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Post by zanygame on Nov 27, 2022 9:08:23 GMT
Nope, because I don't think its rainbows that are causing delays. But 12 years of austerity. Austerity? - the NHS had real terms rises in funding every year. Where has all that money gone? More unfilled jobs. Part of the 39,000 vacancies in the NHS. Its one way to save money. |
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 27, 2022 18:26:04 GMT
Austerity? - the NHS had real terms rises in funding every year. Where has all that money gone? More unfilled jobs. Part of the 39,000 vacancies in the NHS. Its one way to save money. What are you on about - of course they are filled - £100k jobs in the NHS dont stay empty for long.  For what its worth the name of the girl who is rolling in the cash at Taunton is Nicky Philpott.. |
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Post by Pacifico on Nov 28, 2022 7:44:49 GMT
Remember the next time someone claims the NHS needs more money...  In just 12 months, there has been a 15 per cent rise in the number of NHS board members earning at least £200,000, taking the total on such earnings to 632.
Meanwhile, 1,305 received salaries of at least £150,000, with the number in this bracket surging by 12 per cent.
At NHS trusts, the best-paid was Dr Bruno Holthof, chief executive at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, on a package of between £295,000 to £300,000. The trust has an overall rating of “requires improvement” with problems identified in safety, leadership, urgent and emergency services, surgery and maternity, following inspections by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Performance against the four-hour A&E target is just 61 per cent, against the national average of 71 per cent. |
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Post by om15 on Nov 30, 2022 12:22:25 GMT
How on earth does the nurses objective of grabbing more money out of the pot for themselves make them more able to provide the care patients deserve.
I have never felt it appropriate to stand about in the rain in my garden banging saucepans, even less so when I read Trotski bunkum from the RCN ( a trade union by the way).
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Post by Paulus de B on Dec 2, 2022 10:36:45 GMT
..., the entire NHS needs a total reorganization from top to bottom, it is a money pit we need better value for taxpayers' money, it should have been done years ago... Which will, quite rightly, be opposed by the Opposition, because that's what they're supposed to do. If included in the manifesto, it will be denounced either as excessive or as too little too late, and/or their opponents will demand a different total reorganization. That's evidence of the political structure functioning as it should. Under the Bismarck model, on the other hand, it is the Govenrment's job to set limits and to provide a social security safety net, but not to manage either the insurance or the provision of healthcare. Nobody pretends that a politician can do that. The Beveridge model is no longer fit for purpose (if it ever was). |
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Post by Pacifico on Dec 22, 2022 7:51:10 GMT
Some NHS reform suggestions from the left of centre think tank that New Labour got several of their policies from - wonder how popular they will actually be though.
Fewer hospitals and more managers dont seem to be what the public want..
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