Paphos Life

The NHS has been a contentious issue for a long time regarding it's management, funding & staffing levels, now
Stephen Hawking has stepped into the fray in a ' twitter spat ' with Jeremy Hunt...

I think I know who'll win that one...poor Jeremy!...what on earth was he thinking???

Any thoughts anyone?

I wouldn't assume that an expert in theoretical physics is necessarily an expert in running the health service though. However, being an expert in theoretical physics, he will also be an expert in interpreting data, so he would certainly to be able to pull Hunt up on that front, which is what I believe the spat was about.

And whilst all and sundry are bickering about Brexit, the Tories are slowly but surely dismantling the NHS.

Uncle D wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:47 am And whilst all and sundry are bickering about Brexit, the Tories are slowly but surely dismantling the NHS.

Don't believe everything you read in the Mirror or the Guardian...

Royal wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:34 am

Uncle D wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:47 am And whilst all and sundry are bickering about Brexit, the Tories are slowly but surely dismantling the NHS.

Don't believe everything you read in the Mirror or the Guardian...

Quite right and so I listen to my God Daughter who is quite high up in the NHS Management and strangely enough she says exactly the same as Uncle D

Jim

Actually I think the biggest problem in the NHS was the stupid decision on PFI, the trusts are struggling to pay the private companies who are making great returns on the new hospitals etc, a LABOUR policy, and the contracts cannot be re-negotiated as far as I understand.

Mmmm...another alternative fact!...

PFI was actually invented by the CONSERVATIVE party led by Sir John Major in1992, but foolishly carried on by the Labour Government.

Here we go again those wicked Tories (of which I am one) are hell bent on dismantling the NHS. This same allegation has been made over and over again since almost the inception of the service despite there having been intervening Labour administrations who doubtless will be lauded for the excellent running of the service. Its still there but the NHS is in disarray and has been for several years now and the whole question should be taken out of party politics and a cross party set up to suggest proposals for its total reform including an urgent review of the necessity or otherwise of so many tiers of administrative staff seemingly all doing the same jobs. For instance when I was last admitted to hospital with a heart complaint and surgery was it really necessary for 5 different members of staff to take details of my name, address, next of kin, religion etc when all of those details were already in the hospital's possession and this in the so called age of technology? I applaud the work done by the medical, nursing and technical staff who do tremendous work on the whole but the NHS is top heavy with administrative staff at the expense of vital staff requirements.

Rita

The saying "Too many Chiefs, and not enough Indians" comes to mind..

Cogs123 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:52 pm Mmmm...another alternative fact!...

PFI was actually invented by the CONSERVATIVE party led by Sir John Major in1992, but foolishly carried on by the Labour Government.

Nothing alternative at all. Labour did implement it. They may have got the idea from the Tories, but they implemented it because it was a policy on the Labour manifesto.

PFI was first implemented in the UK in 1992 by the Conservative Government.
Therefore, I was disputing the fact that it was originally a Labour policy as had been suggested.

Well.. Surely you can't both be correct ??

Rita

Totally true sadly, give the trusts more money and they appoint another manager ! Crazy.

Jackie