neil999
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Knew this would happen, this is what a big tory majority brings..
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Knew this would happen, this is what a big tory majority brings..
GwladysBlue
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Disgusting.
Hope some dogs are set to rip that aul' bitch to pieces.
How can anyone be in favour of such a disgusting 'sport'?
orly
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It's mental Neil. It's a grim and pointless pursuit that is rightly banned - MORI poll in December 2016 suggested 80% of respondents wanted the ban kept in place. Plus from a political viewpoint, Brits love animals - we are well known for it being one of our idiosyncracies abroad - and this will genuinely turn away swathes of shy Tory voters.
Bonkers stuff.
Clint Planet
Utter Cad.
Oh look, everyone. It's the in-no-way-being-stealth-privatised NHS in action....
NHS GP practice sets up a private service - by paying up to £145 to jump the queue
Dr Tim Alder
6 Feb 2017
AN NHS GP surgery is the first in Dorset to set up a private service where patients can pay up to £145 to skip waiting lists to see a doctor.
Dr Tim Alder has warned general practice is on ‘the brink of collapse’ and ‘heading for privatisation’ and has launched Dorset Private GP Service at Poole Road Medical Centre in Bournemouth.
The NHS practice will continue to operate and current rules ban GPs from charging their own patients for any treatment as this is deemed to be a conflict of interest.
Currently NHS patients there wait four weeks for a seven-minute appointment with one of the practice’s four doctors if they are not eligible for its same-day walk-in service.
However the new private service will be operated by the same NHS doctors from 8am until 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am until 12pm Saturdays. It boasts same-day, ‘unhurried’ and ‘personal' care ‘rather than the rushed NHS clinics that the cash-strapped service is encouraging.’ It comes at a cost though. A ten-minute phone consultation is £40, a 20 minute face-to-face appointment, 13 minutes longer than the standard NHS one, is £80 and patients must pay £145 for a 40 minute consultation.
Critics have slated the move as a ‘kick in the teeth’ for NHS patients and NHS colleagues, arguing it creates a two-tier health system and goes against the NHS principle of reducing inequalities in healthcare.
But Dr Alder said with a crisis in general practice due to increasing demand, a recruitment crisis and lack of funding as well as news that private provider Virgin Care is taking over practices across the country, the private service is the only way to safeguard its future.
“The Government is not trying to save general practice and now it is on the brink of collapse. But when it’s gone, they’ll realise how good we have been at blocking access to the hospitals. By then, it will be too late.
“We have to try something different now to make ourselves stronger in anticipation NHS primary care will be even worse. The worry is that Virgin Care, who are already buying up practices, are going to come in and would then just take us over. I suppose we’d rather be in charge of our own destiny.
“Five years ago, there would be far more people saying ‘how dare you do this to the NHS’ and ‘you’re causing it to fall apart by doing this’ rather than the other way around but now most people understand why and are quite interested. They see it as an option for the future for themselves."
The doctor said he hopes the private service will help relieve colleagues waiting lists and said the NHS practice will continue to operate as normal.
“I’d love to be able to say you can have 20 minutes with me on the NHS but that is not going to happen until we have twice as many GPs.
“We certainly won’t be using NHS resources, we’ll use ours which means if we do it in NHS time, we’ll find cover for that.
“We’ve got to keep the NHS working here, that’s our desire and we will do our best for our NHS patents.”
As revealed in the Daily Echo, 'super-surgeries' with up to 50,000 patients could be introduced in a radical shake-up of GP services.
In a draft report of its Primary Care Commissioning Strategy and Plan, Dorset CCG proposed a new ‘integrated GP model’ which could see the number of GP surgery sites more than halved in the county from 131 to between just 36 and 69.
In central Bournemouth alone 10 sites, used by seven practices, could be reduced to just three.
As reported, already two practices have merged in the county.
Dr Alder warned 25 per cent of GPs in Dorset are going to retire in the next five to ten years and for the first time ever GP training posts in Wessex were not filled. He added there are around six practices in Dorset working with 'very few GPs' who are ‘coping but only just.’ If these close, waiting lists will get longer and longer, he added.
Meanwhile prime minister Theresa May blamed GPs for being a cause of the crisis in the NHS and hospital pressures - and said GP practices would be required to open seven days a week or face funding cuts.
But the doctor, who has practised for 18 years, said doctors are already working 55 hour weeks and a seven day service would ‘dilute care.'
“Those comments really alienated a lot of GPs,” he said. "We believe quality general practice is vital in any modern and increasingly complex health service as a means of steering and supporting people through the often confusing health paths.
“Sadly the NHS is no longer prioritising it and we can see a time when traditional GPs are private and the majority of patients are instead seen in clinics based in hospitals like minor A&E departments. The personal touch and the ‘whole patient’ knowledge will be lost.
“With the NHS struggling to offer any more than a minimum level of service, now is the time to choose a private doctor.”
A spokesperson for NHS England said: “General Practitioners provide a comprehensive primary care service to patients through contractual arrangements with NHS England. Strict safeguards exist within these contractual arrangements and GPs cannot charge patients for NHS care and services, which are free at the point of delivery.”
Tim Goodson, chief officer of Dorset CCG, said: "We will continue to be commissioning GP services. In fact, the NHS nationally is putting in a lot of investment into primary care and GP services over the coming four years. I think GP services have been the backbone of the NHS since its inception. I don’t see that changing. The vast majority of people’s contact with the NHS is with their GP practice and that will continue."
Healthwatch Dorset brands decision a 'kick in the teeth'
If you want to keep the NHS free, vote Labour. If you're happy to go back to Victorian times, stick your X in Teresa's box.
NHS GP practice sets up a private service - by paying up to £145 to jump the queue
Dr Tim Alder
6 Feb 2017
AN NHS GP surgery is the first in Dorset to set up a private service where patients can pay up to £145 to skip waiting lists to see a doctor.
Dr Tim Alder has warned general practice is on ‘the brink of collapse’ and ‘heading for privatisation’ and has launched Dorset Private GP Service at Poole Road Medical Centre in Bournemouth.
The NHS practice will continue to operate and current rules ban GPs from charging their own patients for any treatment as this is deemed to be a conflict of interest.
Currently NHS patients there wait four weeks for a seven-minute appointment with one of the practice’s four doctors if they are not eligible for its same-day walk-in service.
However the new private service will be operated by the same NHS doctors from 8am until 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am until 12pm Saturdays. It boasts same-day, ‘unhurried’ and ‘personal' care ‘rather than the rushed NHS clinics that the cash-strapped service is encouraging.’ It comes at a cost though. A ten-minute phone consultation is £40, a 20 minute face-to-face appointment, 13 minutes longer than the standard NHS one, is £80 and patients must pay £145 for a 40 minute consultation.
Critics have slated the move as a ‘kick in the teeth’ for NHS patients and NHS colleagues, arguing it creates a two-tier health system and goes against the NHS principle of reducing inequalities in healthcare.
But Dr Alder said with a crisis in general practice due to increasing demand, a recruitment crisis and lack of funding as well as news that private provider Virgin Care is taking over practices across the country, the private service is the only way to safeguard its future.
“The Government is not trying to save general practice and now it is on the brink of collapse. But when it’s gone, they’ll realise how good we have been at blocking access to the hospitals. By then, it will be too late.
“We have to try something different now to make ourselves stronger in anticipation NHS primary care will be even worse. The worry is that Virgin Care, who are already buying up practices, are going to come in and would then just take us over. I suppose we’d rather be in charge of our own destiny.
“Five years ago, there would be far more people saying ‘how dare you do this to the NHS’ and ‘you’re causing it to fall apart by doing this’ rather than the other way around but now most people understand why and are quite interested. They see it as an option for the future for themselves."
The doctor said he hopes the private service will help relieve colleagues waiting lists and said the NHS practice will continue to operate as normal.
“I’d love to be able to say you can have 20 minutes with me on the NHS but that is not going to happen until we have twice as many GPs.
“We certainly won’t be using NHS resources, we’ll use ours which means if we do it in NHS time, we’ll find cover for that.
“We’ve got to keep the NHS working here, that’s our desire and we will do our best for our NHS patents.”
As revealed in the Daily Echo, 'super-surgeries' with up to 50,000 patients could be introduced in a radical shake-up of GP services.
In a draft report of its Primary Care Commissioning Strategy and Plan, Dorset CCG proposed a new ‘integrated GP model’ which could see the number of GP surgery sites more than halved in the county from 131 to between just 36 and 69.
In central Bournemouth alone 10 sites, used by seven practices, could be reduced to just three.
As reported, already two practices have merged in the county.
Dr Alder warned 25 per cent of GPs in Dorset are going to retire in the next five to ten years and for the first time ever GP training posts in Wessex were not filled. He added there are around six practices in Dorset working with 'very few GPs' who are ‘coping but only just.’ If these close, waiting lists will get longer and longer, he added.
Meanwhile prime minister Theresa May blamed GPs for being a cause of the crisis in the NHS and hospital pressures - and said GP practices would be required to open seven days a week or face funding cuts.
But the doctor, who has practised for 18 years, said doctors are already working 55 hour weeks and a seven day service would ‘dilute care.'
“Those comments really alienated a lot of GPs,” he said. "We believe quality general practice is vital in any modern and increasingly complex health service as a means of steering and supporting people through the often confusing health paths.
“Sadly the NHS is no longer prioritising it and we can see a time when traditional GPs are private and the majority of patients are instead seen in clinics based in hospitals like minor A&E departments. The personal touch and the ‘whole patient’ knowledge will be lost.
“With the NHS struggling to offer any more than a minimum level of service, now is the time to choose a private doctor.”
A spokesperson for NHS England said: “General Practitioners provide a comprehensive primary care service to patients through contractual arrangements with NHS England. Strict safeguards exist within these contractual arrangements and GPs cannot charge patients for NHS care and services, which are free at the point of delivery.”
Tim Goodson, chief officer of Dorset CCG, said: "We will continue to be commissioning GP services. In fact, the NHS nationally is putting in a lot of investment into primary care and GP services over the coming four years. I think GP services have been the backbone of the NHS since its inception. I don’t see that changing. The vast majority of people’s contact with the NHS is with their GP practice and that will continue."
Healthwatch Dorset brands decision a 'kick in the teeth'
If you want to keep the NHS free, vote Labour. If you're happy to go back to Victorian times, stick your X in Teresa's box.
ashwuk76
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Is this one of those partnerships i was told about? But no I was called a Looney for suggesting this sort of thing was happening.. .Oh look, everyone. It's the in-no-way-being-stealth-privatised NHS in action....
NHS GP practice sets up a private service - by paying up to £145 to jump the queue
Dr Tim Alder
6 Feb 2017
AN NHS GP surgery is the first in Dorset to set up a private service where patients can pay up to £145 to skip waiting lists to see a doctor.
Dr Tim Alder has warned general practice is on ‘the brink of collapse’ and ‘heading for privatisation’ and has launched Dorset Private GP Service at Poole Road Medical Centre in Bournemouth.
The NHS practice will continue to operate and current rules ban GPs from charging their own patients for any treatment as this is deemed to be a conflict of interest.
Currently NHS patients there wait four weeks for a seven-minute appointment with one of the practice’s four doctors if they are not eligible for its same-day walk-in service.
However the new private service will be operated by the same NHS doctors from 8am until 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am until 12pm Saturdays. It boasts same-day, ‘unhurried’ and ‘personal' care ‘rather than the rushed NHS clinics that the cash-strapped service is encouraging.’ It comes at a cost though. A ten-minute phone consultation is £40, a 20 minute face-to-face appointment, 13 minutes longer than the standard NHS one, is £80 and patients must pay £145 for a 40 minute consultation.
Critics have slated the move as a ‘kick in the teeth’ for NHS patients and NHS colleagues, arguing it creates a two-tier health system and goes against the NHS principle of reducing inequalities in healthcare.
But Dr Alder said with a crisis in general practice due to increasing demand, a recruitment crisis and lack of funding as well as news that private provider Virgin Care is taking over practices across the country, the private service is the only way to safeguard its future.
“The Government is not trying to save general practice and now it is on the brink of collapse. But when it’s gone, they’ll realise how good we have been at blocking access to the hospitals. By then, it will be too late.
“We have to try something different now to make ourselves stronger in anticipation NHS primary care will be even worse. The worry is that Virgin Care, who are already buying up practices, are going to come in and would then just take us over. I suppose we’d rather be in charge of our own destiny.
“Five years ago, there would be far more people saying ‘how dare you do this to the NHS’ and ‘you’re causing it to fall apart by doing this’ rather than the other way around but now most people understand why and are quite interested. They see it as an option for the future for themselves."
The doctor said he hopes the private service will help relieve colleagues waiting lists and said the NHS practice will continue to operate as normal.
“I’d love to be able to say you can have 20 minutes with me on the NHS but that is not going to happen until we have twice as many GPs.
“We certainly won’t be using NHS resources, we’ll use ours which means if we do it in NHS time, we’ll find cover for that.
“We’ve got to keep the NHS working here, that’s our desire and we will do our best for our NHS patents.”
As revealed in the Daily Echo, 'super-surgeries' with up to 50,000 patients could be introduced in a radical shake-up of GP services.
In a draft report of its Primary Care Commissioning Strategy and Plan, Dorset CCG proposed a new ‘integrated GP model’ which could see the number of GP surgery sites more than halved in the county from 131 to between just 36 and 69.
In central Bournemouth alone 10 sites, used by seven practices, could be reduced to just three.
As reported, already two practices have merged in the county.
Dr Alder warned 25 per cent of GPs in Dorset are going to retire in the next five to ten years and for the first time ever GP training posts in Wessex were not filled. He added there are around six practices in Dorset working with 'very few GPs' who are ‘coping but only just.’ If these close, waiting lists will get longer and longer, he added.
Meanwhile prime minister Theresa May blamed GPs for being a cause of the crisis in the NHS and hospital pressures - and said GP practices would be required to open seven days a week or face funding cuts.
But the doctor, who has practised for 18 years, said doctors are already working 55 hour weeks and a seven day service would ‘dilute care.'
“Those comments really alienated a lot of GPs,” he said. "We believe quality general practice is vital in any modern and increasingly complex health service as a means of steering and supporting people through the often confusing health paths.
“Sadly the NHS is no longer prioritising it and we can see a time when traditional GPs are private and the majority of patients are instead seen in clinics based in hospitals like minor A&E departments. The personal touch and the ‘whole patient’ knowledge will be lost.
“With the NHS struggling to offer any more than a minimum level of service, now is the time to choose a private doctor.”
A spokesperson for NHS England said: “General Practitioners provide a comprehensive primary care service to patients through contractual arrangements with NHS England. Strict safeguards exist within these contractual arrangements and GPs cannot charge patients for NHS care and services, which are free at the point of delivery.”
Tim Goodson, chief officer of Dorset CCG, said: "We will continue to be commissioning GP services. In fact, the NHS nationally is putting in a lot of investment into primary care and GP services over the coming four years. I think GP services have been the backbone of the NHS since its inception. I don’t see that changing. The vast majority of people’s contact with the NHS is with their GP practice and that will continue."
Healthwatch Dorset brands decision a 'kick in the teeth'
If you want to keep the NHS free, vote Labour. If you're happy to go back to Victorian times, stick your X in Teresa's box.
Oh look, everyone. It's the in-no-way-being-stealth-privatised NHS in action....
NHS GP practice sets up a private service - by paying up to £145 to jump the queue
Dr Tim Alder
6 Feb 2017
AN NHS GP surgery is the first in Dorset to set up a private service where patients can pay up to £145 to skip waiting lists to see a doctor.
Dr Tim Alder has warned general practice is on ‘the brink of collapse’ and ‘heading for privatisation’ and has launched Dorset Private GP Service at Poole Road Medical Centre in Bournemouth.
The NHS practice will continue to operate and current rules ban GPs from charging their own patients for any treatment as this is deemed to be a conflict of interest.
Currently NHS patients there wait four weeks for a seven-minute appointment with one of the practice’s four doctors if they are not eligible for its same-day walk-in service.
However the new private service will be operated by the same NHS doctors from 8am until 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am until 12pm Saturdays. It boasts same-day, ‘unhurried’ and ‘personal' care ‘rather than the rushed NHS clinics that the cash-strapped service is encouraging.’ It comes at a cost though. A ten-minute phone consultation is £40, a 20 minute face-to-face appointment, 13 minutes longer than the standard NHS one, is £80 and patients must pay £145 for a 40 minute consultation.
Critics have slated the move as a ‘kick in the teeth’ for NHS patients and NHS colleagues, arguing it creates a two-tier health system and goes against the NHS principle of reducing inequalities in healthcare.
But Dr Alder said with a crisis in general practice due to increasing demand, a recruitment crisis and lack of funding as well as news that private provider Virgin Care is taking over practices across the country, the private service is the only way to safeguard its future.
“The Government is not trying to save general practice and now it is on the brink of collapse. But when it’s gone, they’ll realise how good we have been at blocking access to the hospitals. By then, it will be too late.
“We have to try something different now to make ourselves stronger in anticipation NHS primary care will be even worse. The worry is that Virgin Care, who are already buying up practices, are going to come in and would then just take us over. I suppose we’d rather be in charge of our own destiny.
“Five years ago, there would be far more people saying ‘how dare you do this to the NHS’ and ‘you’re causing it to fall apart by doing this’ rather than the other way around but now most people understand why and are quite interested. They see it as an option for the future for themselves."
The doctor said he hopes the private service will help relieve colleagues waiting lists and said the NHS practice will continue to operate as normal.
“I’d love to be able to say you can have 20 minutes with me on the NHS but that is not going to happen until we have twice as many GPs.
“We certainly won’t be using NHS resources, we’ll use ours which means if we do it in NHS time, we’ll find cover for that.
“We’ve got to keep the NHS working here, that’s our desire and we will do our best for our NHS patents.”
As revealed in the Daily Echo, 'super-surgeries' with up to 50,000 patients could be introduced in a radical shake-up of GP services.
In a draft report of its Primary Care Commissioning Strategy and Plan, Dorset CCG proposed a new ‘integrated GP model’ which could see the number of GP surgery sites more than halved in the county from 131 to between just 36 and 69.
In central Bournemouth alone 10 sites, used by seven practices, could be reduced to just three.
As reported, already two practices have merged in the county.
Dr Alder warned 25 per cent of GPs in Dorset are going to retire in the next five to ten years and for the first time ever GP training posts in Wessex were not filled. He added there are around six practices in Dorset working with 'very few GPs' who are ‘coping but only just.’ If these close, waiting lists will get longer and longer, he added.
Meanwhile prime minister Theresa May blamed GPs for being a cause of the crisis in the NHS and hospital pressures - and said GP practices would be required to open seven days a week or face funding cuts.
But the doctor, who has practised for 18 years, said doctors are already working 55 hour weeks and a seven day service would ‘dilute care.'
“Those comments really alienated a lot of GPs,” he said. "We believe quality general practice is vital in any modern and increasingly complex health service as a means of steering and supporting people through the often confusing health paths.
“Sadly the NHS is no longer prioritising it and we can see a time when traditional GPs are private and the majority of patients are instead seen in clinics based in hospitals like minor A&E departments. The personal touch and the ‘whole patient’ knowledge will be lost.
“With the NHS struggling to offer any more than a minimum level of service, now is the time to choose a private doctor.”
A spokesperson for NHS England said: “General Practitioners provide a comprehensive primary care service to patients through contractual arrangements with NHS England. Strict safeguards exist within these contractual arrangements and GPs cannot charge patients for NHS care and services, which are free at the point of delivery.”
Tim Goodson, chief officer of Dorset CCG, said: "We will continue to be commissioning GP services. In fact, the NHS nationally is putting in a lot of investment into primary care and GP services over the coming four years. I think GP services have been the backbone of the NHS since its inception. I don’t see that changing. The vast majority of people’s contact with the NHS is with their GP practice and that will continue."
Healthwatch Dorset brands decision a 'kick in the teeth'
If you want to keep the NHS free, vote Labour. If you're happy to go back to Victorian times, stick your X in Teresa's box.
Perhaps of more relevance (if less media attention) was this, which was published on the 31st March - https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-conte...T-STEPS-ON-THE-NHS-FIVE-YEAR-FORWARD-VIEW.pdf. The NHS boss is on record as saying this is what will happen regardless of who is in government.
ashwuk76
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And why has it come to this? That's the question. And the answer is the Tories have been underfunding the nhs so it can fail so it can deliver it to the private sector as the saviour of the nhs.
orly
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Thought at the time this was a pretty progressive update for the Forward View. It's not hysterical enough for some but it does capture the biggest issues and (thankfully) takes a generally positive outlook on the way forward. More about opportunities than threats.
What will be really interesting is if Jeremy Hunt finally gets shuffled out of the Health Sec position. He's basically ignored by all senior NHS execs (much more reference to the DH than him in every senior presentation ) but would be great to see that change with a new person in role
neil999
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The only problem tories can give themselves in this election is their own arrogance...
roydo
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Except they havnt.
ashwuk76
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In real terms I'm afraid they have mate. If you take inflation into account and the rising cost of services they have.
roydo
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Absolutely right.
So far, from what I have heard, is a very very uninspiring message. Oh, and capping energy prices, which is daft.
Its a shame, but a reality I think, that an awful lot of "not that arsed" voters, like me, will be delivering a tick, or cross, based on if they can make a half decent fist of Brexit.
And not much else.
orly
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Definitely hubris here. It's also the first time May has admitted to something being a personal interest to her - and it's the brutal slaughtering of animals in an ultra-exclusive high society pursuit! Massive misstep
Clint Planet
Utter Cad.
What media attention is that, then?
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