The NHS (Very) Long Term Plan

Have you heard the moan that there's 'always some kind of reorganisation in the NHS'? Well, there are a lot (a LOT) of name changes, but they all lead us to the same place. We lose access to the kind of care we've had for over 70 years, care for everyone, for everything, for all our lives. We lose the convenience and accessibility of hospitals and GPs close at hand. Wherever you live there'll have been at least one closure near you at some point in the last 30 years. Watch. Share. Take Action.#ItsMoreThanTheMoney
Find out more at www.publicmatters.org.uk
Thanks to Alex & Adrian at gutterspace for the production
Thanks to the Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust for the funding
To help us produce more videos like this go to publicmatters....

[@Jeannelawes]

Sajid Javid Signs Off £1 Billion Private Health Windfall AS MPS SOUND ALARM David Hencke 14 January 2022

[@keithwallace8474]

SUPRESSED

[@madaddams]

Keeping the NHS model is important, but so too is introducing competition and choice for the patient, to ensure the best possible services. I'm in Scotland and too often a diagnosis is withheld based on personal belief, or politics, I had to fight for ten years to get asthma and COPD treatment. Starting in England but mostly in Scotland, I fought for thirty years to get my Autism diagnosis, and mental health services which are mostly downgraded to charity treatments and support, are a waste of time with highly paid "experts" doing nothing to earn their keep, but keeping you off their list of "active" patients. The NHS are good at keeping us alive, but as for quality of life, they are lagging far behind the pub landlord...

[@ALTEEL]

That's because of the purchase provider split, the internal market, PFI, foundation trusts, the extremely damaging Health and Social Care Act that introduced Clinical Commissioning Groups which are essentially insurance pools. CCGs are known to give financial incentives to GPs, mostly to deny care, but also to put patients on profit making programs or treatments paths. The only way to get comprehensive care that's transparent and accountable to the public is returning to the original far superior Beveridge model of care.

[@madaddams]

@@ALTEEL We're told we have the best healthcare in the world but, that's far from true. The truth is both surprising and shocking: ceoworld.biz/2021/04/27/revealed-countries-with-the-best-health-care-systems-2021/

[@ALTEEL]

@@madaddams if we get back to a publicly owned and publicly operated NHS, that's fully funded, transparent, comprehensive and accountable to local communities. We will have one of the best healthcare systems in the world.

[@madaddams]

@@ALTEEL I agree to a point, but for that to happen, the NHS needs to be given a blank cheque, and quality of life needs to be seen as important as life itself. Accountability should be to the country as a whole, because community is too often used as an excuse for failures. For example, a failure to provide an adequate service would be blamed on a "lack of need" within the community; this would mean individuals or smaller groups missing out. We only rank number ten in the world for healthcare, and that's okay because we're doing better than the US; ridiculous because many poorer countries rank better than the US. South Korea is number one in the world for healthcare, yet only number ten for wealth; the UK is number ten in the world for healthcare, but number five for wealth. The UK can't afford to properly fund our healthcare, yet we can afford to be a military power around the world, and we have plenty of money to give away to other countries to fund their healthcare. Perhaps our biggest problem is, the people who make decisions about our healthcare, are happy healthy people who rarely need the services.