Reply to: Oh Dear : 'Man' who threatens to rape nurses to be treated in private ward

[Board Game Geek]

Maybe Tesco should move into healthcare

Maybe Tesco should move into healthcare

Funny you should mention that, but that is precisely what they are actively considering.

The NHS model is based on a Pay-Per-Patient system, where Practice Revenue is derived from treating bums on seats. It's more complicated than that, as certain diseases earn the Practice more money, but the net result is that your personal medical problems are a potential gold mine for the Practice.

This then makes it financially viable for a Provider, eg, Tesco, to open up an instore or next door medical centre, where they can offer services to their customers. All that free parking, convenience to "Shop & Doc" and you can see the general public will endorse the idea.

Now, to make the idea even more attractive and profitable, Tesco's will employ contract GP's to provide the service. Doesn't matter where they come from, so long as they are competitively priced. So long as the Doc meets the minimum requirements, they are in. Most Docs will be fresh out of Medical School and have completed perhaps 1 year as a Registrar...or they will be imported foreign labour.

There are already a number of senior GP's who have sold their practices to a large USA/European Commercial Healthcare Provider, which incidently has links to the NHS right at the top.

What we will see is "Privatisation and Commercialisation By Stealth".

Once the claws sink in, do you think the Commerical Owners are going to be satisfied with the current arrangement of funding by the NHS, paying them chicken feed per patient ? Do you think they would honestly invest all their time and money to provide a service which GP's currently provide unless there is more potential further down the line ?
Look at the “death of the high street” caused mostly in part by the large supermarkets. The same scenario now threatens our GP Surgeries.

Oh well, it’s only business innit ?

[mevbrown]

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[DaveB]

.......where he would receive preferential medical treatment in a private room anyway

From a guy called Bubba, who want to give him regular injections

[John Galt]

It means if he does it again they dont have to bother with a trial they can just sling his ass in jail and throw away the key.

.......where he would receive preferential medical treatment in a private room anyway

[DaveB]

So he has a court ouder banning him from doing something that is illegal anyway.

Does that mean is't still illegal for him but this time they really mean it?

It means if he does it again they dont have to bother with a trial they can just sling his ass in jail and throw away the key.

[PerlOfWisdom]

A man who has a court order banning him from attacking staff at a hospital in Edinburgh is to be treated in a £18,000 private ward.

So he has a court ouder banning him from doing something that is illegal anyway.

Does that mean is't still illegal for him but this time they really mean it?

[The Lone Gunman]

Broadmoor

Bitch. I refer the gentleman to the answer you gave yesterday morning.

[Fleetwood]

Broadmoor

[The Lone Gunman]

I am sure somewhere like broadmore will have the facilities he requires.

[Fleetwood]

rummage

[Bitbucket]

They have a solution

The nurses have a solution to this problem , a quick rummige around the pharmacy and 10 mins later the post mortem will confirm death by natural causes and all body parts can then be dispatched first class.

[mcquiggd]

Maybe Tesco should move into healthcare.... sell the punters food, place fatty eye-catching products near the checkouts, and have a 'while-u-wait' liposuction van just outside the exit....

Or maybe go for the advertising angle 'you are more likely to survive a heart attack while shopping with us as most of our shelf stackers have medical training....'

[mcquiggd]

In which case they would have been better off spending three years learning Polish...

[The Master]

However, she added graduates would need to be more "flexible" about where and what they wanted to do. "

In other words they need to be prepared to work at McDonald's and/or Tesco instead.

[mcquiggd]

At the same time money is being spent on this scumbag....

"Student nurse fears over NHS jobs

Students are seeking NHS posts
Thousands of student nurses face being left without NHS jobs as trusts impose recruitment freezes because of mounting deficits, nursing leaders have warned.
About 20,000 nurses will graduate this year - and as many as half may struggle to get employment.

Nurses at the Royal College of Nursing conference called for the government to guarantee graduate nurses have roles to go on to - as happens in Scotland.

The government said there were still jobs, but graduates had to be flexible.

There is hellish anxiety about future careers

Richard Cummins, RCN Association of Nursing Students

RCN general secretary Beverly Malone said it was ¿short-sighted¿ to spend money training nurses and then not have positions to go on to.

The average cost of training a nurse for three years is £100,000.

Ms Malone said: ¿All these nurses are waiting in the wings. It is very distressing.

¿It seems so short-sighted in terms of workforce planning.

¿The government is hoping to bring more new nurses in the community but they are cutting off the pipeline.¿

She added many nurses were approaching retirement age and without them being replaced the country was facing a "time-bomb".

'Such a waste'

Richard Cummins, chairman of the RCN's Association of Nursing Students, said: "There is hellish anxiety about future careers. The problem is only going to get worse and there is a great deal of worry."

He said among his group at the University of Sheffield only seven out of 35 had been offered jobs.

Grant Ciccone, who is in his final weeks at the University of Central England, said he had applied to 50 trusts without success and was now considering an offer from Tesco.

"It seems such as waste of money to spend all this time training us and then have no jobs to go on to."

Mark Waterman, a 34-year-old student nurse at Coventry University, added: "It is very worrying.

"I really wanted to go in to nursing and left a job at a computer software company, thinking that was an end to the rat race. But now hundreds of nurses are going for one position."

But a Department of Health spokeswoman said: "There are still jobs for newly qualified staff in many different areas of the NHS."

However, she added graduates would need to be more "flexible" about where and what they wanted to do. "