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Make it free at the point of use available on the NHS.Tax prositution at 30% or make it VAT chargeable.
Make it free at the point of use available on the NHS.Tax prositution at 30% or make it VAT chargeable.
Maybe a nationalised pharmaceutical company might help. It's not just the cost of drugs it's every single disposable item, gloves, sterile wipes etc.
To be fair to this thread though most of the issues highlighted contribute to the problem. There is no single problem causing rising costs or inefficiency. There's many and many ways to address the many issues. We all see some of them often and some of then sometimes.
Eg Why prescribe nicotine replacement products when a smoker can buy them and still save money? Why prescribe vitamins etc when they can be bought for less than the cost of a prescription?
Why employ nurses on a nurses contract to do admin work in outpatients clinics?
That'll be the 0.25% of the existing budget then. Enough to run the NHS for one day......don't get me wrong, every little helps, but it's in the noise.Any word on them chasing up the £400m+ per year owed by foreigners?
How much money is lost persecuting staff who make claims about misconduct, bullying, neglect? How many staff leave, thereby requiring replacements, due to a corrosive culture within management? How much is wasted when elderly and infirm cannot be placed in more appropriate accommodation within the social-care system and have to remain in hospital? The sector could do more to understand human- and organisational-factors issues, but won't, because that means changing the culture at the top of the Trusts. The NHS is fragmented, with few national standards set by Central Government.So the NHS is going to get £20billion in extra funding which is a brilliant thing, however how many of the senior NHS "Administrators" will see this as an excuse to ramp their pay up and deny front line services needed funds. Call me a sceptical old bastard, but the NHS pisses so much money away and pays stupid wages to people who lets be frank could organise an alcohol binge in a brewery.
I work for the NHS, and I'm sick of hearing about how hard it is for nurses. Try being a Paramedic especially one who works in hospitals as well.
Mean while of course, most in the NHS have voted in favour of this spectacular (non) pay rise, without consideration for the fact that it will effect unsocial hour payments....and guess which particular profession relies on that? Yep, Paras (and A&E ambo workers)....but that's OK. As long as the nurses are being given a non pay rise.
As for money that will come back from the EU, the NHS gets enough it's just very badly managed. I'd rather it goes to defence, with a refunding of recruiting, accommodation and grub and also something like Home Defence Force, and of course, veterans. And here's an idea...veterans should be included in the garaunteed interview scheme for the emergency services, so if you're a vet or still serving, you will by right, be interviewed. That way, it will remove the disparity that leads to service personnel being paper-sieved by say, the NHS or Police, because they've been serving in HMF.
This new money, if it ever actually appears, will enable that to happen.
My sister who is a senior nurse (can't remember the rank...SRN?) in critical care has the same opinion regarding funding. She doesn't care how many billions are pumped in, it will never be enough because so much is wasted.
In her opinion the NHS needs to be restructured at every level, but that just won't happen sadly.
I think I got the point
You don’t want foreigners using our NHS
But if they live here and contribute in the same way as other residents then that’s why we all pay our taxes to get free care for all - free but with particular parts that get paid for
i remember watching a TV prog about an A&E near Heathrow. One of the nurses said ambulances are often called to meet planes and take sick passengers to A&E. These patients were often in no fit state to travel or heavenly pregnant women. Nearly all came from Africa or India/ Pakistan. It aint rocket science it just needs a bit of joined up thinking, some decisive leadership and less social worker type mangers.
I fear the elderly will continue to be the scapegoats for madcap ideologies, for thieves, and mismanagement, also for prevalent wastage and profiteering. Moralities and responsibility have changed.The oldies have a right to feel aggrieved; their lifetime tax contributions should have been accrued, invested and held in trust for them - in which case there'd be no care funding crisis now. If the oldies had had the opportunity or been compelled to put the same tax contributions into a private care insurance scheme, they'd now be well taken care of. Instead, government has just pished everything away and has to look for scapegoats.
What really beggars belief in the whole NHS funding crisis is that there isn't even the most basic of budgetary calculations involved. Simply put, the NHS is a limitless liability cost, and it costs a lot per head of population - but the government doesn't even know (or won't reveal) how many people it is servicing. Just what is the UK population today - 63 million, or more like 83 million?
Can you link to that please? Particularly the bit where the nationalities of these people were discussed in detail, and the details of the heavily pregnant women that had flown here long-haul
Ah the Lagos Shuttle.
Health tourism warning as NHS chases £350,000 bill from Nigerian woman who gave birth in a British hospital
Meanwhile, the £20Bn funding seems....elusive...
Treasury X Factor: Tory MPs belatedly summoned to find the money for NHS pledge | Coffee House
That link doesn’t mention anything about people being brought straight from aircraft in ambulances because they had boarded planes whilst heavily pregnant