It has been a few years since The Cockroach Catcher retired and in that time, the landscape of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry has changed. Can CAMHS survive the storm like the pelican?
Without much public notice, much of this sub-specialty has shifted into private hands. Just around half the last time I looked. Now there is talk of looking at CAMHS with the offer of money! Wow! Or was the outcome going to be: lets sell the profitable parts of CAMHS such as Anorexia Nervosa and leave the rest! i think I know what it would be. Just look at Dermatology!!!
Dermatology shows how NHS being decimated
By Dr David Eedy, President of the British Association of Dermatologists - 15th December 2014 11:24 am
The news that a third of NHS contracts in England have been awarded to private sector providers since the service was reorganised in 2013 is a fact that dermatologists and their patients are all too aware of.
In fact, some estimates put the figure at 70% of NHS contracts going to private providers in just the first year.
Dermatology is a prime example of how government meddling is decimating the NHS, despite the fact that each year, 54%of the population is affected by skin disease, and 23 to 33%of the population at any one time has a skin disease that would benefit from medical care.
Problems
occurred when full control of Nottingham Treatment Centre was handed to Circle,
with staff transferred to the private firm last year.
The
majority of the consultants refused the transfer and left.
Circle had
to recruit overseas locums working as Consultants but not registered as such,
some being paid £300,000-a-year (over 3 times average consultant pay), and were
not qualified to teach.
As a
result, the Queen's Medical Hospital (QMC), home of the East Midland's major
trauma centre, can no longer treat the most severe emergency patients, instead
having to send them to Leicester .
Dr David
Eedy, president of the British Association of Dermatologists, said: "It's
inconceivable that an acute and ill patient would have to be moved from one of
the largest centres in the UK
"It
seems ridiculous and incomprehensible... and would not be optimum care."
Check out the full report:
Final Report.
I have personally dealt with "gaming" by private insurers. Now, it looks like the gaming is over as the payer is the NHS. You only need to look at the papers to realise that Anorexia Nervosa in particular is a growth industry. They are difficult to treat, recovery is not guaranteed and when the payer is the NHS: WOW!
©2014 Am Ang Zhang
In the field of medicine, to promote something one needs to publicise something that is not directly related to what you want to promote. Vitamin D deficiency is one such item in recent times. Instead of promoting limited sunshine, the tablet or capsule is being promoted, everywhere! We have for a long long time various hints of Statin and its various beneficial effects. Yet a close friend had dementia and diabetes and another had double vision. The latter recovered 6 weeks after stopping the Statin, not so my friend with diabetes. She could no long remember me.
Another friend had open heart surgery and her surgeon told her to throw away the Statin.
There may indeed be some good doctors left, in the NHS.
Looks like the attack is now on Anorexia Nervosa. The Cockroach Catcher had to face a team from a private hospital wanting to make money from the NHS by asking the NHS to continue to fund anorexia treatment as she has USED UP her health insurance money. Now the situation is much worse in our beloved NHS as there is a number of closures of NHS Adolescent Psychiatric inpatient units and many such In Patients are sub-contracted to the private sector even before the term AQP emerged.
Has it not occurred to anyone that there are some very clever people working for the so called AQPs.
As we move into the gaming era of the NHS, The one diagnosis that will be on AQP's list will be Anorexia Nervosa. Unlike hip replacement, the variation of the condition is such that it is ripe for Private Providers to make a case for a fairly long drawn out treatment. AQP will not worry as "the longer, the better". Of course the patient must not die and if you think I am skeptical, I am as I have seen it even before all this Reform or Deform.
That is why I have argued that where there is such an incentive, "gaming" will happen and Mr Cameron. Don't say that nobody told you.
That is why I have argued that where there is such an incentive, "gaming" will happen and Mr Cameron. Don't say that nobody told you.
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