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Labour cares about the NHS so much...

Wookster
Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
... that both Andy Burnham and Alan Johnson both refused dozens of requests for a public enquiry into the Mid-Staffs hospital because they wanted to preserve the status quo.
The Department of Health was handed three reports raising concerns about the quality of care in some parts of the NHS in 2008. The reports for Lord Darzi, a former health minister, found targets were being met at the expense of patient treatment and identified a culture of fear among staff afraid to raise concerns.
These documents were only made public in 2010 as a result of a freedom of information request by Policy Exchange, a think-tank.
In January 2008, the Healthcare Commission also identified seven different warning signs about the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which led to the first investigation. It later emerged patients up to 1,200 patients had died unnecessarily, with some left hungry, unwashed and in soiled sheets.

Full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9875660/Mid-Staffs-Labour-Government-ignored-MP-requests-for-public-inquiry-into-deaths.html

Will Labour now apologise for their dreadful mismanagement of the NHS?
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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Do we really need these political diatribes, after all this is the Housing and Economics forum ;)
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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    The NHS is a major part of the UK economy.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    True, but the blinkered political trolling is more than a little rich from someone that has been complaining so much lately about blinkered political trolling.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • A._Badger
    A._Badger Posts: 5,881 Forumite
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    Maybe he's decided to fight fire with fire. Give the dog-whistle Labourites a taste of their own medicine.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    I think it's right that we discuss both the NHS and education on the Debate House Prices and the Economy board. They are substantial components of the government's spend.

    It is a shame though that it all has to be so party political. It's not as if either side has covered themselves in glory in either area.
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  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    The NHS is a major part of the UK economy.

    With money going in and nothing coming out.
  • Moby
    Moby Posts: 3,917 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    PaulF81 wrote: »
    With money going in and nothing coming out.

    How about patients being treated ....or doesn't that count in your world?
  • somethingcorporate
    somethingcorporate Posts: 9,449 Forumite
    Moby wrote: »
    How about patients being treated ....or doesn't that count in your world?

    Not cost effectively or efficiently mind you.
    Thinking critically since 1996....
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    somethingcorporate wrote: »
    Not cost effectively or efficiently mind you.

    Exactly. Combined with every Tom, !!!!!! and harry expecting to live to 150 with a limitless NHS budget.

    Some sour news. The budget isnt unlimited and average life expectancies are going to fall.
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,227 Forumite
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    Combining the health and education topics, anyone like to hazard a guess as to whether there is correlation between a public school education and above average life expectancy...
    I think....
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