How to save a fortune in the NHS

It's simple. Stop treating people who aren't entitled to free treatment. The NHS needs to set up a department whose sole purpose is to check a patient's eligibility for NHS treatment. It's crazy to expect doctors and nurses to do this - it's a specialist job. They just tend to treat anyone who turns up. The amount of money saved would be huge.

How many "Diversity" type positions, jobs, managers or officers are there in the NHS ?, there are none anywhere around where I live, including in major regional hospitals, community hospitals, district general hospitals and psychiatric hospitals.

I would tend to agree with removing a lot of cosmetic surgery from the NHS, however not entirely, and for very good reason.

Its all very well people protesting about Transexuals, but whatever your views are, many, or most such people do genuinely, mentally and psychologically believe they are trapped in the wrong body, and you can argue as much as you want to, but I know that I am correct.

So, you deny one of these people any chance of "Gender Re-allignment", which is only ever done after a long period of carefull consideration, and you then create a mountain of psychiatric and psychological problems which will HAVE TO be treated, at huge cost.

To deny these people any chance of been who they believe they really are, will also lead to self harm, attempted suicide, suicide, and a lot of grief not only for the people themselves, but also for their loved ones and family.

In the end, if you take away all opportunity for Transexual people to undergo surgery and treatment, you will not save anything, and in the long run it may cost the NHS more.

Makes me wonder what happens when all these healthy people get older DD . All that does is push the cost onto dementia care and old peoples homes . Not to mention the extra cost of pensions , surely the cost effective way for the population in general would be for people to drop dead the day they retire ? 

Lets hear it for the fat fuckers ,smokers and alcoholics , the saviours of the nation ,  Hoorah! 

So ban things like smoking? - slight problem that smoking-related illness cost the NHS around £2.5 billion, but the revenue from tobacco taxation comes in at around £8 billion.

We would have even less money for the NHS if everyone stopped smoking.

Obviously the sums would be better if we banned outfits like Greggs and McD's...

You may be right but we are also importing those who are more prone to being fat fuckers. It seems to be at least 5% greater on average for black and northern subcontinent groups. So once again it makes no sense for government to demand action for a policy to help save the NHS money whilst in the same moment are following policies that are putting extra costs onto the NHS.

A study by Public Health England (PHE) – a government body that’s been recently renamed The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) – revealed that people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are more likely to be overweight or obese compared to the White population. Among adults, Black and Black British groups had the highest rates of obesity, followed by Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups. Additionally, children of Black African, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi descent had higher rates of excess weight compared to their White peers.

getslimmr.co.uk/unravelling-the-complex-web-ethnic-minorities-and-obesity-in-the-uk-2/

It costs the NHS £6.5b directly, a further £10b for diabetes and £27b to the economy... and this will nearly double by 2050.

It is a ticking timebomb because widespread obesity is a relatively new thing, so the costs are just going to increase and increase as all these fat fuckers get older.

Being a fat fucker causes diabetes, cancers, heart disease, strokes, mental health problems and fertility problems... that's a lot of costs they are expecting the rest of us to pick up.