©2012 Am Ang Zhang
Do you really think that hospitals and what hospitals do are
not necessary?
Do you really think that a good health care system is just about Primary Care doctors or in the new world order of things nurses doing what doctors do? (Noctors as our lovely Dr Crippen called them).
Do you really think that Mao was right to train farmers to do Appendix operations in the period of Bare Foot Doctors?
Do you really think that a good health care system is just about Primary Care doctors or in the new world order of things nurses doing what doctors do? (Noctors as our lovely Dr Crippen called them).
Do you really think that Mao was right to train farmers to do Appendix operations in the period of Bare Foot Doctors?
The pretending is over now that it is clear about the current governments plan for dismantling he NHS.
The children of my friends and contemporaries are in good jobs like, lawyers, bankers and dare I say, management consultancies. They are all scrambling to make sure that their Health Insurance will cover IVFs, antenatal care and full obstetric care and for those engaged in sporting activities, knee work and perhaps hip work for later.
For this the Elite of our society, it is not just about GP
care.
They are there to refer them to the best specialist in the best Private
Hospital or sometimes at the private section of a top NHS hospital.
I have maintained for some time that:
Most people in well paid jobs
(including those at the GMC) have health insurance. GPs have
traditionally been gatekeepers and asked for specialist help when
needed. If we are honest about private insurance it is not about Primary
Care, that most of us have quick access to; it is about Specialist
Care, from IVF to Caesarian Section ( and there are no Nurse Specialists
doing that yet), from Appendectomy to Colonic Cancer treatment (and
Bare Foot doctors in the Mao era cannot do the latter either), from
keyhole knee work for Cricketers to full hip-replacements, from Stents
to Heart Transplants, from Anorexia Nervosa to Schizophrenia, from
Trigeminal Neuralgia to Multifocal Glioma, from prostate cancer to
kidney transplant and I could go on and on. China realised in 1986 you
need well trained Specialists to do those. We do not seem to learn from
the mistakes of others.
So
do you really think that hospitals are not necessary, or not necessary
for the average citizen of England. Soon they will be sold and it will
be costly to buy them back.
What about medical training? If these hospitals are sold, who pays?
And watch out, someone, your parent, your spouse, your child and even your MP may need a Hospital Consultant one day.
Do we still have those: yes we do! See
here>>>>
In London alone these are specialist hospitals that are
famous the world over:
The Maudsley Hospital
Then there is Papworth.
Need I say more!!!
I know that when you visit them nowadays, these places seem
to be full of: non locals. Or could it be that these are now the new locals, I
doubt as you can sometimes see the lovely foreign plated cars parked outside
them. If I am wrong, I do apologise.
The truth is that medical tourists come not for the GP services
we provide, they come for the cutting edge medical procedures and in England,
it is also about value for money.
So, opening up many of these rather precious hospitals for
up to 49% private will mean a severe reduction in actual medical times
available to NHS patients.
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