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[tsubaki]

It's like 14 years of under investment by Tories means nothing all of a sudden. 10 years of under funding the NHS and its only since coming out of the pandemic and election looming did they start appropriately funding in reality, of course far too late to catch up. Indeed giving pay rises to overburdened under staffed is not clean slate. First service's to go under Austerity ideology was prevention services as they easy short term targets to save mone and let's not forget it was Tory and Liberal Democrat that done away with many prevention services, Clegg is still trumpeting this fiscal ideological policy.

It isn't fourteen years of under-investment, its forty years of a failure to update itself made worse by successive regimes who saw it as a test-bed for their own theories whilst throwing money at it whenever things went wrong or they wanted to make a point.

The NHS should not consume the amount of money it does, it is horrifically wasteful of public money, its management is bloated whilst the service it provides is patchy and occasionally dangerous. Any government that has a pretense of competence about it has to rein that waste in, and has to update it so it is fit for the next twenty years.

Helpfully there is a lot that can be learned from abroad and then brought in at low cost here. One example I've mentioned before is the French app that everyone can download called Doctolib. Amongst other things, it allows you as a patient to see what free appointments are available in your town or area for all doctors (or chiropodists, vaccination clinics or many other medical providers) and then book the most convienient one for you online. The doctor selected can communicate with via the platform your own doctor, get medical info and if required have the consultation with you remotely. It is years ahead of anything we have here and would solve many problems that currently affect GPs (non-attendance at appointments, uneven demand for appointments in an area, no way to triage an appointment before they attend etc).

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It isn't fourteen years of under-investment, its forty years of a failure to update itself made worse by successive regimes who saw it as a test-bed for their own theories whilst throwing money at it whenever things went wrong or they wanted to make a point.

The NHS should not consume the amount of money it does, it is horrifically wasteful of public money, its management is bloated whilst the service it provides is patchy and occasionally dangerous. Any government that has a pretense of competence about it has to rein that waste in, and has to update it so it is fit for the next twenty years.

Helpfully there is a lot that can be learned from abroad and then brought in at low cost here. One example I've mentioned before is the French app that everyone can download called Doctolib. Amongst other things, it allows you as a patient to see what free appointments are available in your town or area for all doctors (or chiropodists, vaccination clinics or many other medical providers) and then book the most convienient one for you online. The doctor selected can communicate with via the platform your own doctor, get medical info and if required have the consultation with you remotely. It is years ahead of anything we have here and would solve many problems that currently affect GPs (non-attendance at appointments, uneven demand for appointments in an area, no way to triage an appointment before they attend etc).

To be fair last Labour Government under Blair tried to modernise and digitise the NHS was a whopping failure costing 10s of billions, that was down to individual NHS trust not wanting to surrender whatever systems in place for whatever reason until it became untainable and collapsed.

This current Government is correct in many aspects in modernising, now working alongside NHS rather than in it. Beating the Tories into irrevalence was paitballing compared to the war they are entering against NHS and modernization.

Phone Apps, can hear the WFA platoon lining up their attack...

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

It isn't fourteen years of under-investment, its forty years of a failure to update itself made worse by successive regimes who saw it as a test-bed for their own theories whilst throwing money at it whenever things went wrong or they wanted to make a point.

The NHS should not consume the amount of money it does, it is horrifically wasteful of public money, its management is bloated whilst the service it provides is patchy and occasionally dangerous. Any government that has a pretense of competence about it has to rein that waste in, and has to update it so it is fit for the next twenty years.

Helpfully there is a lot that can be learned from abroad and then brought in at low cost here. One example I've mentioned before is the French app that everyone can download called Doctolib. Amongst other things, it allows you as a patient to see what free appointments are available in your town or area for all doctors (or chiropodists, vaccination clinics or many other medical providers) and then book the most convienient one for you online. The doctor selected can communicate with via the platform your own doctor, get medical info and if required have the consultation with you remotely. It is years ahead of anything we have here and would solve many problems that currently affect GPs (non-attendance at appointments, uneven demand for appointments in an area, no way to triage an appointment before they attend etc).

Interesting one, I agree with the time frame of 40 years, but not sure what you mean by not updating? Do you mean on a technical level? Or updating successfully? I'm guessing the latter.

At an organisational and operational level it has undergone constant change, but not in a coherent way. We've seen the introduction of purchaser-provider split, managerialism, PFI agreements for capital infrastructure, various restructures including introducing primary care trusts, CCGs, and latterly integrated care boards. I couldn't keep up with the changes the Tories made, kicked off by Lawnsley and ending up with Hancock's mid covid reshuffles.

I daresay this Labour Govt have a shiny new plan as well.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper gives Commons statement on firearms review after Kaba case

Yvette Cooper will update MPs on a review into how police officers who take fatal shots in the line of duty are held to account.

www.bbc.co.uk

firearms licences handed in seems to have had the desired effect.

"If we are going to be held accountable for our crimes, then the job aint worth it..."

 

[davek]

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper gives Commons statement on firearms review after Kaba case

Yvette Cooper will update MPs on a review into how police officers who take fatal shots in the line of duty are held to account.

www.bbc.co.uk

firearms licences handed in seems to have had the desired effect.

"If we are going to be held accountable for our crimes, then the job aint worth it..."

Cooper has effectively handed the out of control Met even greater license to shoot and kill.

Another clueless get who should have retired in shame after Brown bit the dust in 2010.

 

[Harryflashman]

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper gives Commons statement on firearms review after Kaba case

Yvette Cooper will update MPs on a review into how police officers who take fatal shots in the line of duty are held to account.

www.bbc.co.uk

firearms licences handed in seems to have had the desired effect.

"If we are going to be held accountable for our crimes, then the job aint worth it..."

What I don’t understand about this is that a tenant of British justice is that it’s seen to be done . So now we have a carve out In these cases but I don’t really understand why ? If they’re frightened or rather concerned of repercussions why doesn’t the exception extend to when they give prosecution evidence at court or are subject to civil proceedings?

In cases like the one we’ve just seen if there is evidence of links to organised crime then I could understand and support the withholding of the address of the officer but I’m uncomfortable with anonymous proceedings, in relation to adult offenders .

 

[Rita_Poon]

hyper liberal woke bells. lefty trans excuse forcing neo nazi bags of tofu. cry arse vegan mushroom munchers. tree hugging hippy moaners.

Commonwealth heads of government to defy UK on slavery reparations

Downing Street insists a discussion about the issue is not on the agenda for the summit of 56 Commonwealth countries.

www.bbc.co.uk

No UK apology over slavery at Commonwealth summit

No apology over Britain's historic links to the slave trade at the Commonwealth summit, says 10 Downing Street.

www.bbc.co.uk

Can the uk gift the bloc of affected andrew, anne, and william windsor? chuck fergie in as a bonus? There's a load of castles the crown owns, get em flogged to the monarchy obsessed americans, they've still got a few quid.
Here, now I think of it, the church is wealthy, let's get a mass claim in against that shower of spite.

 

[Rita_Poon]

And in yet another grotesque act of maniacal self harm...

Football Governance Bill: Government to introduce 'strengthened' legislation

"Strengthened" legislation to establish an independent football regulator for the elite men's game in England is set to be introduced to parliament by the government.

www.bbc.co.uk

They want to put a football regulator in. Because all those other regulators are doing such stellar work.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

hyper liberal woke bells. lefty trans excuse forcing neo nazi bags of tofu. cry arse vegan mushroom munchers. tree hugging hippy moaners.

Commonwealth heads of government to defy UK on slavery reparations

Downing Street insists a discussion about the issue is not on the agenda for the summit of 56 Commonwealth countries.

www.bbc.co.uk

No UK apology over slavery at Commonwealth summit

No apology over Britain's historic links to the slave trade at the Commonwealth summit, says 10 Downing Street.

www.bbc.co.uk

Can the uk gift the bloc of affected andrew, anne, and william windsor? chuck fergie in as a bonus? There's a load of castles the crown owns, get em flogged to the monarchy obsessed americans, they've still got a few quid.
Here, now I think of it, the church is wealthy, let's get a mass claim in against that shower of spite.

UK should ask reparations off the the French and Italians, Women had equal standing until them Romans turned up what with straight roads reading and writing and lots of Misogyny and patriarchy . That French man William the Conquer King of England, with his Doomsday book formation of state nosiness... And as for them Yanks putting everything on extortionate HP agreements while we tried to slow Nazi war machine down for everyone who did not have blond hair and blues eyes., PPI was pocket money

 

[Yarrgh]

That plagiarising Chancellor is now handing out £2.3 billion to Ukraine while taking £300 WFA off 10 million of our pensioners.

'kin clown.

I thought it was a loan guaranteed by the interest on frozen Russian assets?

Probably about the least costly thing to the British public they've done.

Until any state or individual or organisation pulls their money out of the UK as they don't trust us to keep it safe that is.

 

[davek]

I thought it was a loan guaranteed by the interest on frozen Russian assets?

Probably about the least costly thing to the British public they've done.

Until any state or individual or organisation pulls their money out of the UK as they don't trust us to keep it safe that is.

Another stunt the Starmer Gang are using today relates to the call for reparations for historic slavery crimes: the big idea/dodge by Starmer was that maybe the UK government could lobby on the international stage for debt interest payments - for nations that the British colonial machine snatched human beings from turning them into slaves - to be restructured.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I jolly well hope the money saved from axing the wfa from our civic minded pensioners goes towards the cash reparations our resident socialist(s) are so keen to see. Wealth transferred from the rich global north to the global south. Hopefully we'll see a few more public services reduced and other strategic investments axed too.

I'm sure everyone can get behind that.





*waits*

 

[TommyDavo]

Cornwall has put a claim in against Morocco I believe

 

[catcherintherye]

Lest we forget, tens of thousands of people have also been murdered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I'm not sure there have been any marches against Russia nor exhortations that British politicians make the expulsion of Russia from the country their single most important issue though.

(If I was really goading Dave, I might ponder why that is, but I'm not, so don't get your knickers in a knot)

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Do you think it might be because nobody in our state is enabling Russia to conduct it's acts? Whereas our government have very much encouraged, and supported the Israeli genocide. It's a critical point here.

 

[peteblue]

Reeves is making a complete arse of the economy. Caving in to the public sector while expecting the private sector to pay for it, changing the rules and borrowing like there’s no tomorrow. But don’t worry, the couple of hundred million she will save with the WFA will pay for everything….meanwhile her little tricks are forcing up the cost of government borrowing, a total shitshow……