Margaret McCartney pleaded
on her blog:
The NHS, for all it’s
faults, is fuelled by people who care about their work and who will add extra
in. These are the people who chase things up, will stay a bit late to help, who
will take a phone call when offduty because it’s something they know about and
can fix well. Numb us down to the level of contract salespeople, and we will
all suffer. But some people, the sickest, you can bet will suffer far more than
others.
Here is a reprint of my
earlier blog on the NHS over wine and tea:
.......As he dined with
his good friend who served a beautifully fresh Red Mullet cooked the Chinese
style with a simple spring onion sauce, the Cockroach Catcher produced a bottle
of his recent discovery: Torrontes from Argentina
Torrontes is truly an Argentinian
wine that is really suitable for our Chinese Style of cooking. On the nose, it
has a delicate pear and citrus flavour. My friend who is used to the good and
expensive wines took a sip and declared that it has a wonderful peach flavour.
It has a long aftertaste that is unusual for this class of wine. At the price,
it beats any other white wine. Let us keep that as a secret.
Over tea afterwards the
topic of NHS privatization came up.
No, not all of NHS will be
privatised.
Why?
Government money is the
best money for anyone to make and that is really tax payer’s money. The new NHS
will be the private sector’s main source of income, as only 90,000 in the UK
It is therefore essential
for the private health care companies that the NHS is around, at least in name,
so that they can make money by providing a “better value and more competitive”
service to the NHS!
Some parts of the NHS will
have to remain too, as it is necessary for the private sector to dump the
un-profitable patients: the chronic and the long term mentally ill, for
example. (Right now, 25% of NHS psychiatric patients are treated by the private
sector. But why? Even in psychiatry,
there are cherries to be picked.)
Finally, in order to keep
the mortality figures low at competing private hospitals, they need to be able
to rush some of their patients off to NHS hospitals at the critical moments!
Have some more tea!!!
Iron Goddess of Mercy
(Oolong Tea ): traditional tea of my
friend's home village, Teochiu which is of course where my family is from.
These are traditional tiny
cups and the tea is lovely on the nose and has a long aftertaste. To do this
tea justice, use the softest water you can get: like those for a good malt!!!
(Calcium is the villain here: no more than 12mg/Litre)
So the NHS will be free at
the point of delivery.
Lets hope so but the money
must come from somewhere.
And some us pay taxes!!!
So nobody in their right
mind would want to privatise the NHS. There is certainly more money to be made
if it remained in the public domain.
Dave Cameron’s
brother-in-law should not worry either as his income would go up at least 300%
as long as he works for one of the private providers.
Business is business!!!
Killing the NHS is no good
to the privateers!!
Wait: the sums are wrong
though:If the private providers are making money and the GP commissioning teams
have a limited pot and that Consultants working for the likes of BMI hospitals
have a 300% increase in pay compared to old NHS Hospital pay scale, either tax
payers are going to be forking out more and more money or someone is not going
to get their treatment.
Is some politician heading
for a top job with the likes of GHG or Bupa? Only time will tell and history
told us it won’t be long: less than 2 years!
From May 26, 2011:
The company won a
controlling stake in the British hospital group on Monday, after a bout of
frenetic dealmaking that saw management teams in Johannesburg
and London
Netcare says sorry again
for kidney scandal
Netcare in Scotland
Our analysis of the only
Scottish ISTC contract and a private sector report on value for money shows
that the requirements for collecting and reporting data, for contracts, and for
evaluation do not conform to NHS standards.
The Scottish Regional
Treatment Centre treated only 32% of annual contract referrals in the first 13
months of operation at 18% of the annual contract value. If the same patterns
apply in England
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