When I got sterilised it was for safety reasons, for me and any foetus..... being a diabetic on insulin. So I guess I saved the nhs money by not getting pregnant any more.
got any facts to back that up?
I hate the American model too (most expensive system in the world but in the 10th position for health apparently). I am merely frustrated that what never gets talked about much is prevention and I am fairly worried that without serious changes to our Public Health programmes (like tackling the awful food environment) that we simply won't be able to afford to treat everyone and will end up with a 2 tier (private/public) system. After all its a pyramid scheme which only works if there are enough healthy people paying in. But if people get sicker younger and live longer unhealthy lives how can it be afforded? I voted for Blair in 97 because I thought more money into the NHS and education would solve problems but it didn't...Its a political 3rd rail but I'd definitely vote for a party that was honest about these realities.
what is reported in the news is usually a sweeping generalization and inaccurate, to make their stories look good. We challenge news stories frequently on here.
I don't think services being outsourced will bring about the demise of the NHS my views are opposite. I worked for the NHS as a clinical nurse specialist up to the end of last year. We tried and tried through the improvement framework to transform the service we provide so that patients with stable disease (tier 2) were seen in nurse led clinics rather than by consultants with the obvious premise that should their condition warrant a consultant review they would move to a tier 3 level. We fought and we fought but no one would listen to sense. So the CCG, following an excellent pilot and evaluation of our service put this out to tender. In short I now work for a private health company, we are in the process of introducing our service county wide, supported by a company with excellent business credentials who are tightly and efficiently managed. Other trusts and NHS England are watching our progress with interest and our model is likely to be adopted countrywide. The best bit about all of is is that patients are very happy, GPs are happy because we work closely with them helping to achieve targets and just in our small patch of England we have SAVED the NHS millions of pounds. Changing ways of working do not equal bad news, in the case of the NHS there is so much practice and ways of working that needs to be 're analysed by people who know what they are doing. To keep all the services under NHS services is tantamount to criminal waste of public money. Yes private companies make profit but they are businesses and also need to develop and the NHS saves millions. Free care at the point of delivery for patients will never ever change. But to keep going the NHS has to change. No one should be scared of the involvement of private companies if it ensures the future of the NHS for everyone. And private companies do not and never will charge NHS patients.
So here is a large US study showing that diabetics do spend an extra day in hospital typically because their diabetes comes with associated health complications. Its only 1 extra day though! Its a dull day at work so I am over googling. Sorry.
And whenever we have an x-ray or a scan we are using machines purchased from a private company.....the list is endless the NHS/private business relationship is completely intertwined. But none of the services the NHS purchases externally could be deemed as privatisation by stealth or the back door or whatever people choose to call it, it isn't privatisation nor the American model because we don't have to cough up to use it (Other than through taxes). It's simply the MGS doing what it should be doing, getting the best services for patients at the best price it can!
That should say NHS my phone makes things up!
I bought some after (I think) you mentioned them. Really quite nice.Funny you should mention Spar, my local Spar started stocking the low carb Adonis bars, they were by the till. Unfortunately the last time I went they were still by the till, but marked “reduced to clear”!
Yes my feeling when I visit Costa (other coffee shops are available) - everything in here is poison.
