DOCTORS in England on Thursday (13) staged the biggest walkout in the history of the UK's state-funded National Health Service, prompting fears for patient safety. The unprecedented five-day stoppage over pay and staff retention is the latest in eight months of industrial action across the NHS, which is already reeling from a vast pandemic backlog.
“The complete inflexibility we see from the UK government today is baffling, frustrating, and ultimately destructive for everyone who wants waiting lists to go down and NHS staffing numbers to go up,” Laurenson and Trivedi added.
Maybe the Tory government doesn’t want wait lists to go down, but want to adopt the US system instead…
Charlie Chaplin talked about the difference in the country before and after the NHS. He said when he left that children were skinny and had rotten teeth. When he came back they were healthy.
As someone from Appalachia, that’s exactly what I seen growing up. It’s still like that today in some places deep in there.
It doesn’t have to be that way and I can’t imagine anyone willingly choosing to regress like that.
I hope we get this civilization thing right some day. It’s hard to have much hope when you see egos all around carrying on like the world is theirs and they’ll live forever.
Totally agree. It’s a tendency in all European countries: national healthcare is seen as public expenditure negatively affecting national balance, and private clinics are on the rise. Let’s hope, at least, that taxes will be cut as well, otherwise we’ll end up with a system that has the worst of the European model combined with the worst of the American one.
Maybe the Tory government doesn’t want wait lists to go down, but want to adopt the US system instead…
That would be the UK’s 2nd biggest mistake of the century.
Ribbit
It would suck if they lost it.
Charlie Chaplin talked about the difference in the country before and after the NHS. He said when he left that children were skinny and had rotten teeth. When he came back they were healthy.
As someone from Appalachia, that’s exactly what I seen growing up. It’s still like that today in some places deep in there.
It doesn’t have to be that way and I can’t imagine anyone willingly choosing to regress like that.
I hope we get this civilization thing right some day. It’s hard to have much hope when you see egos all around carrying on like the world is theirs and they’ll live forever.
Totally agree. It’s a tendency in all European countries: national healthcare is seen as public expenditure negatively affecting national balance, and private clinics are on the rise. Let’s hope, at least, that taxes will be cut as well, otherwise we’ll end up with a system that has the worst of the European model combined with the worst of the American one.