Journalist Peter Hitchens thinks the UK needs to look to France to improve the health service, telling Cristo: “It’s not as good as we like to think it is.” www.nhsvaccine... www.who.int/em...
the nhs is the biggest racket for thieves and scammers in the country and g.p.'s are the laziest greedy shower of work dodgers in it following up close behind them are their gestapo trained rude,obstructive and incompetent receptionists.
I work in social care and if 90% of management didn’t turn up for work, nothing would change and nobody would notice. The NHS needs a major overhaul from top down and all the “managers” need getting rid of.
they do do something: they have 'meetings' They have as many meetings as possile as a) it gives them a purpose b) it means you can't have access to them/disturb them as 'they are in a meeting'. It's the same in France. Try and get hold of someone in 'management', they are in 'plein reunion' .. a "full on meeting". Yeah, having a meeting about how to avoid dealing with anyone while making it look like they serve a function and are vital,.. with top new bright ideas for change and,. ahem, .. 'improvements' .. etc. etc.
@@flyingjackcarpentry9394 That's up to him. He is entitled to judge the balance of risks. However forcing people to take it or else they can't do things is TOTALLY wrong under any circumstances. I am disgusted by this an amazed that people can't see why it is wrong. I have taken two jabs so I can travel, and am really annoyed that the b******s want me to take a booster. It feels like Russian roulette every time.
@@ericrawson2909 what did u expect? Did u honestly think it would be two jabs then back to normal? (REAL QUESTION) Did you think that the entire western world, that is in different stages of bringing in such an idea as a "Vaccine Passport, would do so in rough unison if it's only temporary? (REAL QUESTION) you have signed up for a lifetime of this kind of thing.
Thank you for your hard work. No one blames the front line staff. The organisation is top heavy. Adverts for ‘green initiative’ managers for £70k is why the NHS is in the state it is. We all know it.
Yes its a typical Stalinist organisation. A bureaucratic nightmare. Most money is wasted by incompetent admin staff, needless managers, Woke overpaid appointments and very poorly managed. The NHS medical staff save lives. The system itself kills people. The NHS is the joke of Europe. Get rid of it.
I work in the NHS and completely agree with your comments. There's way too many managers and admin staff. I was embarrassed by the clap for the NHS. I was also disappointed with all the tiktok crap done by some as it showed in my opinion a complete disregard towards the public. Maybe it's time for the NHS to collapse, I'm sure a lot of management would have difficulty finding work elsewhere as currently they seem to be a protected species that aren't required to do much.
Much too top heavy. Trust bosses making millions and doing nothing. Where are all these millions going?? It's a bottomless money pit. It's time there was a government enquiry into these monstrous salaries and pensions these trust bosses are getting.
As an NHS employee I can tell you now... Most of the money goes to the people at the top... management at every level doesnt care about efficiency. ITS A CRYING SHAME!
Well when manufacturing jobs are nonexistent and trying to run a small business like a shop is becoming harder and harder Who else are people going to work for ? Oh yes the state !
Having a meal in local pub Saturday evening, lady on next table collapsed with suspected stroke. Ambulance took 55 minutes to arrive. Luckily she is alive today but I thought a stroke needs prompt action. The NHS has been in crisis for decades and still nothing is being done to change this.
The NHS has overwhelmed it's self by closing the doors for treatments & care for patients. So now they have a problem in their own making. THE NHS NEEDS TO SAVE US NOT US SAVE THE NHS
I've lived in lots of countries and seen lots of health services and the way they are funded. The NHS is nothing to admire. I can't believe the high amount of bureaucracy and money thrown away by middle managers in the NHS, where's the auditing of money spent???
The maths are very simple. Reduction of the total number of beds from 299,000 in 1987/88 to 141,000 in 2018/19, with an exponential population growth during that time. Hospital beds for general and acute care fell 34% between 1987/88 to 2018. We are paying and have been paying more and more into the NHS, via NI and even our council tax (rises in the last 4 years for "Social Care") and getting less and less service. Perhaps increasing the number of beds and services in-line with the exponential population growth would have avoided these issues. The issue isnt born of any party, its the government, Tory or Labour that screw things up the same way, over and over. People should remember this and the last 18 months at the next GE and polls. It's time to let them know, enough is enough, but its too late for Government in its current structure. Vote for anything other than any of these lot again.
PFI pushed by Tony Blair is also a factor which has led to a reduction in hospitals, beds increased waiting lists and therefore a poorer health service.
I've been saying this for years, the nhs is not fit for purpose, ever winter its ready for collapsing, now with this pandemic has shown how mismanaged it is
My family lives in Estonia , massively better care and even much cleaner . More efficient , but then the system is run by doctors on the boards and they have the old system of Matron’s running the wards .
I didn't do it and had my wife guilt tripping me every week that the neighbors would think badly of me. That just shows it's all virtue signalling. I told my neighbor it felt like being in Stalin's Russia where people were terrified of being the first to stop clapping. Most people are blind to what is going on.
they get them all from abroad now, brits not wanted brits will not be trained while they can get the staff off the shelf already trained and cheap as chips.
My mum's currently in hospital (a retired nurse of over 40 years service) and she's found the conditions and care to be shockingly bad, as have I (medical biologist with plenty of hospital experience). The NHS should have been taken off of life support years ago.
I don't think "we" worship the NHS, this is a common fallacy. I certainly don't, and could not understand the nonsense of clapping it at the start of the pandemic - those TikTok videos should be a huge embarrassment. I want it to be there when it's needed. But it is enormously wasteful, badly run and a huge drain on the tax payer. In comparisons to other national health care providers, it is barely average. In all the important metrics, it is clearly failing the UK public. (Full disclosure; I am a former nurse and numerous members of my family are, or have been, NHS employees.)
I'm of the same view. It's not so much worshipped as taken for granted, the way that people take roads or street lighting for granted. It's the media and political parties who play on this quasi-religious angle, for clicks, views and votes, ofc.
My local war memorial has an NHS Flag flying above it ! I’ve made a number of comments that I believe this to be wrong I’m sad to say my remarks fell on deaf ears and confused faces
That sums up my opinion of the NHS too. I'm sixty years old and remember when it was better. That is not looking at the past through rose tinted spectacles, it is merely fact. I remember seeing the doctor (GP) for minor injuries that required suture without an appointment. An actual appointment was easy to arrange. If an ambulance was called, say for an elderly person falling at home it was usually there in less than half an hour. My experience of last week, when an elderly neighbour fell, suffered a fracture and could not rise resulted in a six hour wait for an ambulance.
Couldn’t agree more, I’ve said this for years. The NHS was a magnificent concept but has been abused by opportunist foreign health tourists for years and is now over staffed with non medical managers. Not a lot wrong with the medical staff but the edifice has crumbled because it is over stretched and badly managed despite our ever increasing financing.
No,but we'd happily have what the rest of the developed world has. Why is everything always compared to the USA as if it's the only country that exists? Sod the USA.
Not that I believe in forced vaccination, but if saving the NHS (the mantra for the past two years) is so important why are forced vaccinations for care home workers only, and not NHS workers? This should alert any awakened souls to the game government and media are playing.
Peter Hitchens is absolutely right about hospitals. Successive elected people annually run it into the ground yet are regularly re-elected: what does that tell you? Today there are 144,000 beds, in 1948 when the NHS started there were nearly 450,000 beds. Even with an enormous non-English-speaking immigrant (and hard-working) workforce. Protect the NHS!!!!!! Grow up, investigate the world like Cuba, Germany etc
Continental Europe usually charges some form of co pay, people pay some sort of contribution to insurance scheme out of their salary (gotta stress in Switzerland health insurance is non profit) on top of tax rate that's usually higher than the UK A grown up conversation needs to be had about the financing of healthcare
I’ve been financing the nhs for 40 years through my tax and NI, and I object to standing in the same queue as someone who pays nothing, and I don’t for one moment think the Swiss pay more!
For anyone still thinking that the NHS is free because they don’t personally pay income tax remember that VAT is 20%, insurance premium tax is 12% to 20% so we ALL pay huge amounts of tax.
We used to pride ourselves in this country (UK) when you could get an ambulance to the door in about three and a half minutes after a 999 call. Now you are lucky if you can get one in three and a half hours. It's a Fucking disgrace. The assholes that we have running this country who have never worked a day in their lives. Their time will come.
Never have 'worshipped' the NHS, its function is to serve the people in their time of need, it does not do that. Now doctors are refusing face to face with the very people who pay their extortionate contract salaries.
Give the money we spend on NHS care & ask Private companies to do better ie treat patients WITHOUT hundreds of thousands of HIGH PAID MANAGERS! Why do we need a board of directors at EACH NHS TRUST? Imagine Tesco having a board of directors at EACH SHOP?
NHS and its staff need to realise that they are nothing more than servers in the service industry they do not rule our lives and they will do as told from now on by the customer!! The GP will no longer make their own decisions they will do what the patient asks end of conversation
NHS is not fit for purpose. Hundreds of thousands of people have been denied proper medical care for the last 2 years while the NHS has bumbled its way through the pandemic. Cancer patients not having the required care, elderly people passing away without their loved ones, ambulances queuing up for hours, drs only having telephone consultations and that’s if you can get through by eight in the morning, cancelled operations the list could go on. We have nurses and drs constantly moaning that they are working their socks off as if the rest of us are just sitting on our arses. Stop making excuses and get on with it.
It might be why the Nightingale Hospitals were never used for their intended purpose. You'd think they'd have known that before building them, of course.
By brother has never worshipped the NHS....he's worked for them for 31 years....he knows the truth, as do the many withought a voice for fear of retribution, they also know only to well!
You can CHOOSE what type of doctor to go to......that's the big difference. if you know you have an eye problem then you go straight to an eye doctor...not toa GP to get a referral one year later.
The money goes into a deep hole and is ever seen again.,but was government plans along for privation, begin to think the leader of labour is a conservative just because the number of times he's voted with the conservatives.
Why natural immunity has not been taken into account + the hospital does have the beds they put them into storage to make space to keep the beds 2 meters apart ? It needs to get rid of pen pushers and and someone that knows what there doing and knows how to use the money properly .
The sponging NHS management don't want to share 'the cake' out to any more employees. Just the same with all companies, private or public sector. The management want to do less and at the same time, feel more important (empire building!) so they employ an assistant (usually someone they know or are related to), who employs an assistant and so on, and make the 'shop floor' workers do more. Example, in the private sector, I started my career in production engineering as a engineer, fixing machines, then we had to run them and fix them, then we had to clean up and run them , do the quality control checks and fix them etc. When this wasn't enough for the greedy bastards they shut the factory and moved the manufacturing to Poland with a quarter of the wage bill. The shares of Imperial Tobacco (ooops!) were stratospheric when it was ran with one man or woman doing their job and doing it well. Now their shares are.......👎Karma.🙂. I would have to assume the NHS is ran in a similar way.👍
Hartlepool thirty years ago 2 main Hospitals, one large maternity hospital. Two specialist hospital. 2021 Largest council tax in country . No hospitals. Well done governments and councils - doing a sterling job.
NHS is so badly managed, Some one I heard of recently said doctors were going from ambulance to ambulance outside the hospital and no one went into the hospital.
I sent Peter Hitchens an email in April 2020 about the plan to use the Pandemic to usher in the Global World Economic Forum COVI-PASS Digital ID Passports
A big problem with the NHS is that it’s - FREE and people abuse it. Ambulances have come a taxi service. People go to A&E because they can’t wait until the next day to see their GP. If they had to pay they would think twice.
@@NosyFella daily who- please explain! You are obviously a corbyn supporter. I have personally witnessed idiot parents taking their children to A&E because their child had a sore throat, or call ambulance because their child has a temperature
It is also questionable whether non-smokers should pay for smoker's healthcare, fit people should pay for obese people's healthcare and non-drinkers should pay for alcoholic people's healthcare.
Healthcare spending in the United Kingdom (UK) as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) has increased since 1997, where it was 6.8 percent. By 2019, healthcare expenditure in the UK amounted to 10.2 percent of the GDP. Healthcare expenditure has in general experienced an increase over the provided time interval.
Did I hear right later on, when Cristo told Tonia Buxton he pays £20 to his butcher for a chicken? That's some funky chicken...or some chicken, some neck!
We are heading for a medical two tier society but I would argue there already had been one for ages and the universities and people with degrees keep this seperation alive … finish school and get to work unless you are unusually bright then you should further your education.. everyone else get a job ASAP
"I do think it should be de-politicised" Peter Hitchens living in cloud cuckoo land. A monopoly health system funded entirely through taxation is political by design. It's a feature of the system, not a bug. If you want to de-politicise healthcare, you have to push for Dutch/German/Swiss style system with a lot more private sector involvement.
Keep talking David. I live in The Netherlands and it’s in a different league to the UK. Scrap the NHS, look at the best method and copy it. The three you mention would be a fantastic start.
Does it provide any service? Aren’t we the ones continually doing it a service by keeping it on life-support without our consent? Let it die, put it out of its misery and we can get something else in its place.
I don't think the NHS's doom is reversible. Why? Because it's fundamentally mismanaged, has allowed itself to be burdened with the 'mental health' tsunami, and those that could influence change simply won't acknowledge (let alone begin to tackle) the NHS's core failings. I don't claim to have the solution, but it's obvious to me that the whole structure is on borrowed time.
Interesting Apparently the late Denis Healy Mp thought we should have become like an Island Austria instead of trying to behave like the former imperial power we were.
