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February 2024
Various observations regarding my comments on the NHS
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Couldn’t resist a quick
response. I guess most of us are now convinced that the NHS is a
highly inefficient organisation in need of reform.
The difficult part is deciding how to reform this organisation. I
believe one of the problems comes from its origin in the Civil
Service where committee's are used as a way of syndicating
responsibility. (Our local authorities have same problem). As
a young cancer surgeon moved here to the square from Holland said -
in Holland, she was responsible for treatment prescribed and if
urgent could organise it in a week. Here in
Bristol, she has to submit a proposal to 3 committees!
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Agree with your comments Uncle B
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I agree with you, the NHS is
beyond repair, it’s time an all party committee look at all the
Health services in the world that have better outcomes than ours and
set up something similar here. A service “free at the point of use”
but which is unavailable is useless .
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I have to admit to agreeing with
you…the NHS should stick to the basics of treating patients and
leave the politically correct stuff to those with private incomes.
Maybe we need to adopt a system where the basic stuff is covered by
state tax and more detailed stuff is covered by non-mandatory
insurance, If we had to pay up front to visit a GP and then
claim it back, i think there might be fewer missed appointments!
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