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Ste
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PostPosted: 22:23 - 17 Dec 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
How would giving the NHS more funding do anything to fix the culture of inefficiency that's embedded in the NHS?

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Should there be a limit? At what point is it right to say enough is enough sort your shit out and stop wasting so much money?
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PostPosted: 23:14 - 17 Dec 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Well, if the interview on radio 4 the other day is to be believed, private hospitals (Spire in this case) are happily churning out hip replacements for the NHS at the standard NHS tarriff, offering the same level of service as they provide their paying customers and still making money doing it. In a calm, controlled and workmanlike fashion while paying their staff a good wage and maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.

Which suggests to me that there are a whole lot of elective procedures the NHS are doing themselves ineficiently that may be better being farmed out to the private sector

I was given a choice of either a private clinic or a local hospital for my imminent NHS funded arsehole remodelling.
Given that choice I'd take the private clinic all day long, not least because I can park there for free.
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PostPosted: 09:10 - 18 Dec 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
Nobby the Bastard wrote:
I'm absolutely not suggesting they don't get care. I do think that providing that care is where most of NHS problems are because its not resourced properly.


You could have literally endless funding for the NHS, and you wouldn't fix its problems. As I said, it's a question of people and organisation.


I said resourced properly, not more.

Get rid of the contractors that cost more than permanent staff even if they were give a decent pay rise and then you can afford more beds.
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PostPosted: 17:00 - 18 Dec 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
2p worth.
NHS is a difficult beast to drive costs down.
New tech and procedures sometimes cost more. Lives can be saved etc today when before it was not possible.
There are streamlining efforts where procedure viability is sometimes governed by cost-benefits v life expectancy.

Re: strike action.
Maybe the industry on strike ain't making billions but it may be helping some other kuhnts to be billionaires at the expense of the great un-washed.
Viva la Revolution.
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PostPosted: 18:05 - 18 Dec 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
With the NHS we all need to acknowledge the elephant in the room: you can't save everyone.

Little tyke is born with some rare defect and the parents campaign for treatment on the NHS. Can't knock that, we'd all do the same but if gazillions of pounds are to be spent on one kid who's playing Anubis and Thoth to weigh up the hundreds, maybe thousands immiserated by yet another op cancellation? "Budget, ran out. Soz!"
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PostPosted: 00:11 - 22 Dec 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
grr666 wrote:
I can park there for free.

Nobody can park anywhere much at my gaff, the price of land round those parts being sky high - we've barely got much allocated even to staff parking, although out at Harefield there's oodles of parking.

The consultants had to give up their parking area for a much-needed imaging centre. No doubt they weren't best pleased Laughing

The council often gives staff free parking on the streets during really bad train strikes etc. and parents whose kids are inpatients can request parking.
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PostPosted: 16:36 - 22 Dec 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
I almost lost the will to live trying to find somewhere to park in St. George's.
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MCN
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PostPosted: 10:00 - 07 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
hellkat wrote:
grr666 wrote:
I can park there for free.

Nobody can park anywhere much at my gaff, the price of land round those parts being sky high - we've barely got much allocated even to staff parking, although out at Harefield there's oodles of parking.

The consultants had to give up their parking area for a much-needed imaging centre. No doubt they weren't best pleased Laughing

The council often gives staff free parking on the streets during really bad train strikes etc. and parents whose kids are inpatients can request parking.


My finger hovered over the down-rate button for this post.
OP missed the opperchancity to write Cuntsultants. Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: 10:49 - 07 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
hellkat wrote:
Nobody can park anywhere much at my gaff

I at least had a pleasant experience in regard of parking. Arrived to have a choice of at least 70 empty spaces, parked
at the back, went inside and entered my reg number on the terminal on the counter and that was that. When I came
out 90 minutes later car was still sat there by itself with nobody parked either side of it. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 11:05 - 07 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
One great advantage of being a volunteer driver for the patient transfer service is I can park my car anywhere I want in hospitals, no charge. Ambulance bays are my favoutite, not far to walk.

Smug face> Cool
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PostPosted: 11:11 - 07 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
MCN wrote:

OP missed the opperchancity to write Cuntsultants. Rolling Eyes
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Laughing

Certainly they're as completely annoying to me as they are to everybody else, only from a different perspective. Brick Wall

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