Thursday, 13 March 2014

The NHS

Well I have to have a go once again, the government in their wisdom have decided that the NHS workers will not get a pay rise in fact hospitals round the country will have to loose staff, this is counter productive to patient care and more to the point Patient Safety, less staff means more mistakes, mistakes means often death of the patient, is that really acceptable in todays day and age??, in my mind not at all, if you are young you will possibly think what do I care, but you need to care, you will grow old, you will need the help of the NHS in old age I can assure you of that!!, I have bitter experiences of mistakes, mistakes that might not have happened if staffing levels were better, but now instead of promoting more staff in the NHS they have actually reversed this ideal, care in the community is I believe a joke it does not seem to work, or is it the idea that all illnesses will be looked after in the community?, just how silly is this?, is it any benefit to you to be seen some where other than a hospital?, I think not, the base line all over the world is that if you are ill you attend a hospital be that public or private, so moving much of the elementary work in to the community, just how that might happen is beyond me, it does not work, it is not in the least cost effective, and is of no benefit to you as a patient, if the service is moved out of the hospital it is income that departs fro0m the hospitals income, so what does it mean for you?, well you just might not have a hospital in the future, you might have to travel some distance to get services at a different location, I  have a warning for you., the Clinical Commissioning Groups are looking for a reduction in costs, they will commission services to who ever offers the least costly service, I might add that this might not be the best clinical service only the cheapest, you need to watch just what is going on with your health care it soon might not be at a NHS hospital, please, please be aware!!.

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