The NHS is under attack

[SydneyRover]

Sensible thing to do if he thinks it might cost him his job, when all is said and done people
Have to earn a living

That's how you see it BP? rather than do what he's paid to do by the great suffering public he makes a call to bury the information rather than upset his future boss and you think that's just fine and dandy?

Read my post above about how he's trying to privatise the NHS by stealth and lies about it.

[Glyn_Wigley]

Sensible thing to do if he thinks it might cost him his job, when all is said and done people
Have to earn a living

One step away from 'I was only obeying orders'. Good to see where your moral compass points.

[Ldr]

Out of interest how many on this thread work in management of an NHS trust? I do btw

[SydneyRover]

Out of interest how many on this thread work in management of an NHS trust? I do btw

More to the point, what do you think of the the state of the NHS and should it be privatised?

[Ldr]

Of course it shouldn't, but there is a difference between outsourcing and privatisation.

[SydneyRover]

Of course it shouldn't, but there is a difference between outsourcing and privatisation.

I have no problem with outsourcing provided it's for the benefit of patients, urgent work etc but if the NHS is to remain strong and improve in my opinion outsourcing should not become the norm.

[Ldr]

The 2 major things that need to happen to help the NHS.

1) social care (mostly outside the NHS remit I acknowledge) needs improving. This will free up NHS beds by allowing timely discharge of medically fit patients.

2) abolish commissioners. A whole need industry of unneeded middle men

[SydneyRover]

''Record number of NHS A&E patients wait over four hours on trolleys

There were 57,694 patients waiting more than four hours from the decision to admit to admission last month,

  Experts say latest NHS England figures show £1.8bn government pledge not enough.

  The number of A&E patients in England waiting on trolleys for more than four hours to be admitted has risen by over a third to the highest level since records began, prompting warnings that cash pledged by the government will not be enough to relieve the acute pressure on the NHS.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/08/millions-waiting-for-nhs-operations-in-england-the-highest-total-on-record

Who do you trust to run the country?

[Ldr]

Neither the Tories or Labour, pointedly not Labour under Corbyn