Theresa May has been Prime Minister since June last year.
She hasn't got the symbolic mandate of winning a general election (Cameron stepped down), but she's been in charge for almost a year.
She hasn't got the symbolic mandate of winning a general election (Cameron stepped down), but she's been in charge for almost a year.
RIP NHS.
1. My nephew is 15 months old, sick and has to take tablet form which is almost impossible. The liquid one is beyond the budget.
2. My mum is having big problems with her knee due to arthritis, it has been going on for 4 years, and all they do is treat the pain. So now she is on boxes of Tramadol, and this is creating all kinds of new problems.
3. My father in law has a poor heart and he has medication but what they have given him creates a list of side effects so long that he visits the GP atleast once a week. If he cuts himself, he is in Hospital. However, there are alternatives, but beyond the budget to be prescribed to him.
This is my only experiences with the NHS and I don't think it is fit for purpose.
The desire of the common person to scream "PROTECT OUR NHS" is feeding into the problems. Now they are even paying Recruitment Agencies huge sums of money to find people remotely qualified, and they are absolutely raking in the cash (I know someone off to Miami with work in August as a perk holiday for working the NHS account).
Now you know why the elite invested their own money into Brexit - Brexit is not just a pet ideology, it is an opportunity to make boatloads of money through privatization. While promoting a nationalist agenda, these well-heeled globalist gentleman will relocate to Monaco, Bahamas or some other sunny island at the first signs of Brexit failing. They will probably do so anyway even if it is a success.
May things go well for you and your family.
Here's some stats on NHS
1. 3x higher death rate after major surgeries compared to US
2. 48% of Brits haven't seen a dentist in over 2 years
3. Average surgery wait time of 18 weeks, 100 days for major surgeries.
4. 1 in 28 die due to subpar care
Universal health care = universally terrible
Source: http://www.dailywire.com/news/14470/7-things-you-need-know-a...
Nice strawman though
This makes sense when you see that the UK spends 9.78% GDP on healthcare when the US spends 16.91% (http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs) and you can also see we actually get great value for money when the Commonwealth Fund has rated the NHS above most other healthcare systems: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/20...
The NHS wasn't in this state in 2010 before Andrew Lansley got his hands on it. Maybe the problem lies with those who are managing it (somehow currently the imbecile fall-guy Jeremy Hunt...)
On top of that, stats like your first one are easily skewed because people in the US don't even get necessary surgeries because they can't afford it, so of course the NHS is going to have a higher rate of death afterwards!
Precisely because it has been fucking eviscerated by the Tories.
The answer to all your gripes above is to stop starving the NHS of funds in a climate where it has to take care of more and more elderly people, and simply increase funding - we spend significantly less on healthcare than other developed nations.
The gameplan is this:
1. Starve the NHS of funds for years
2. Create false crises by continually setting unrealistic budgets, putting hospitals in 'special measures', cutting GP funding etc.
3. Enforce longer waiting times, poorer service, and low morale by funding management and private partnerships but cutting front line pay.
4. Ditch the NHS, since it clearly isn't fit for purpose (nice sound-byte)
5. Make people pay for insurance to pay the private providers - and we get Trumpcare
Astoundingly, this seems to work, as evidenced by your post.
The country is in a strange place, and getting stranger by the day.