The NHS - time for a radical shake-up

[SimonMac]

It's just not working.
Thousands of people are dying unnecessarily, the service is appalling, some of the people who work in it have an appalling sense of entitlement, there is massive waste (the 111 helpline for example ) the people who are funding it (middle class taxpayers) are being sidelined by the demands of chavs with lifestyle-choice health problems - go to any A&E at night if you think I'm exaggerating.

It's a farking joke.
I don't mind paying privately (and London does have a very good all-private sector which I'm largely using at the moment) , but whatever component of tax and NI goes into the NHS should be refunded to people who want to opt out.

Alas if you get hit by a bus, the paramedic won't know you have opted out and will take you to the nearest A&E

[portseven]

Isn't the NHS getting a big shake up in about a months time?

As from 1st April practically a brand new NHS ... It's going to be chaos!

[OwlHoot]

It's just not working.
Thousands of people are dying unnecessarily, the service is appalling, some of the people who work in it have an appalling sense of entitlement, there is massive waste (the 111 helpline for example ) the people who are funding it (middle class taxpayers) are being sidelined by the demands of chavs with lifestyle-choice health problems - go to any A&E at night if you think I'm exaggerating.

It's a farking joke.
I don't mind paying privately (and London does have a very good all-private sector which I'm largely using at the moment) , but whatever component of tax and NI goes into the NHS should be refunded to people who want to opt out.

For some reason I see no rep star against the OP's post.

But +ve rep in spirit - Well said!

[shaunbhoy]

I don't mind paying privately (and London does have a very good all-private sector which I'm largely using at the moment) , but whatever component of tax and NI goes into the NHS should be refunded to people who want to opt out.

So in fact you DO mind paying you stingey barsteward. Man up FFS!!
From each according to their ability to each according to their needs. Now write that down 100 times!!

[d000hg]

It's just not working.
Thousands of people are dying unnecessarily, the service is appalling, some of the people who work in it have an appalling sense of entitlement, there is massive waste (the 111 helpline for example ) the people who are funding it (middle class taxpayers) are being sidelined by the demands of chavs with lifestyle-choice health problems - go to any A&E at night if you think I'm exaggerating.

And not to mention, when a middle-class IT worker has a sore tooth he has to wait 24 hours for treatment. Madness!

[SueEllen]

And not to mention, when a middle-class IT worker has a sore tooth he has to wait 24 hours for treatment. Madness!

Nothing is stopping you from going to a private dentist.


And if you live in London (or any city) you can get out the phone book and ring around until you find an NHS dentist in the entire city who will take you.

[vetran]

From each according to their ability to each claimant according to their wants.

FTFY

The blueprint for the UK welfare system.

[Sysman]

A relative was a UK medical secretary and they were constantly trying to bribe her with marketing items worth £50+ to get access to the consultants diaries.

I used to know a medical rep who tried to act ethically but he was surprised how many doctors were expecting things like a new colour telly in exchange for trying out a new drug.

And if he did a seminar for a bunch of doctors with a meal chucked in he quickly learned not to let them near the menu or wine list, because they'd simply go for the most expensive items.

[Sysman]

Alas if you get hit by a bus, the paramedic won't know you have opted out and will take you to the nearest A&E

That's got to be better than the US version where they'll search you for a credit card first.

And of course you might get an ambulance chasing lawyer thrown in, right when you are at your most defenceless.

[Sysman]

Nothing is stopping you from going to a private dentist.


And if you live in London (or any city) you can get out the phone book and ring around until you find an NHS dentist in the entire city who will take you.

At one point in the mid-nineties dentists in my area were refusing to take on new patients via the NHS.

An enterprising chap in a neighbouring town opened up a surgery in a portacabin to address the shortage and did rather nicely out of it.