Who will win the UK election ?

Loughton_Monkey

padington wrote: »

The majority of the work the NHS does is just an expensive form of end of life torture.....

We're used to that in this neck of the woods.....

England's biggest NHS hospital trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, has been put into special measures after a damning report by the health service regulator.

The Care Quality Commission found a culture of bullying and low morale among staff at Whipps Cross Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs six hospitals across east London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31918670

But don't worry. They'll soon sort this out by spending above average wages on a new "CAG Governance Coordinator" [up to £34,530]

http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/98528a1104f92400ae6c1628854c080d/?vac_ref=913708720

What sort of organisation would the successful applicant work for?

Apparently....

Barts Health is the largest trust in the NHS and one of the leading healthcare providers in the country. The trust’s six hospitals deliver high quality compassionate care to the 2.5 million people of east London and beyond.......

This would come as a great relief for the poor 75-year-old I saw in there at 7:30 a.m. suitably 'starved' for his operation. By 4 p.m, without having had an ounce of apology, rational answer, or sympathy, the poor guy started telling everyone of his plight. So they put him in a supplies cupboard out of the way.

I witnessed this first hand since I was there for a simple special X-Ray, and despite waiting 3 hours, I could have been sent home at 12 noon. But I had to wait until 6 p.m. before a doctor could be found to sign my 'release'.

The sheer routine suffering and torture of 'customers' is bad enough. But what troubles me more is the huge cost of delivering such 'patient abuse'.

Generali

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

We're used to that in this neck of the woods.....



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31918670

But don't worry. They'll soon sort this out by spending above average wages on a new "CAG Governance Coordinator" [up to £34,530]

http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/98528a1104f92400ae6c1628854c080d/?vac_ref=913708720

What sort of organisation would the successful applicant work for?

Apparently....



This would come as a great relief for the poor 75-year-old I saw in there at 7:30 a.m. suitably 'starved' for his operation. By 4 p.m, without having had an ounce of apology, rational answer, or sympathy, the poor guy started telling everyone of his plight. So they put him in a supplies cupboard out of the way.

I witnessed this first hand since I was there for a simple special X-Ray, and despite waiting 3 hours, I could have been sent home at 12 noon. But I had to wait until 6 p.m. before a doctor could be found to sign my 'release'.

The sheer routine suffering and torture of 'customers' is bad enough. But what troubles me more is the huge cost of delivering such 'patient abuse'.

Yup, that very nicely sums up my experience of The NHS. Expensive and terrible patient care. The doctors are as good or as bad as anywhere else. The cleanliness of the wards and the nursing care are a disgrace.

I took Mrs Generali to A&E in one of London's leading Teaching Hospitals. This is one of the places that is A Flagship of the NHS which is The Envy of The World. There was blood and food on the floor of the cubicle. When I reported it to the desk the woman just stared at me like I was asking for street directions in Serbo-Croat. When I asked for a broom and mop to clean up I was told to go back to the cubicle or they would 'ask' me to leave.

I was very polite throughout. No shouting, swearing or histrionics. This is just the norm for the NHS IME. Patients are somewhere the enemy; something getting between a hospital and a target.

padington

If you want bright, hardworking people, you need to pay sufficiently to attract the right people. Isn't that the mantra in the city?

Generali

padington wrote: »

If you want bright, hardworking people, you need to pay sufficiently to attract the right people. Isn't that the mantra in the city?

I don't have to pay the wages of investment bankers by and large. I am forced to pay the wages of public employees under threat of imprisonment.

padington

Generali wrote: »

I don't have to pay the wages of investment bankers by and large. I am forced to pay the wages of public employees under threat of imprisonment.

Apart from when the banks are too big to fail of course, then you pay to mop up their mess until you're dead.

antrobus

padington wrote: »

Apart from when the banks are too big to fail of course, then you pay to mop us their mess until you're dead.

Sadly, it was not the investment bankers that failed. It was the perefectly ordinary run-of-the-mill retail bankers that fumbled the ball.:)

ukcarper

Generali wrote: »

Yup, that very nicely sums up my experience of The NHS. Expensive and terrible patient care. The doctors are as good or as bad as anywhere else. The cleanliness of the wards and the nursing care are a disgrace.

I took Mrs Generali to A&E in one of London's leading Teaching Hospitals. This is one of the places that is A Flagship of the NHS which is The Envy of The World. There was blood and food on the floor of the cubicle. When I reported it to the desk the woman just stared at me like I was asking for street directions in Serbo-Croat. When I asked for a broom and mop to clean up I was told to go back to the cubicle or they would 'ask' me to leave.

I was very polite throughout. No shouting, swearing or histrionics. This is just the norm for the NHS IME. Patients are somewhere the enemy; something getting between a hospital and a target.

Not my experience had cause to use three different hospitals over last year and service was very good in all three.

padington

antrobus wrote: »

Sadly, it was not the investment bankers that failed. It was the perefectly ordinary run-of-the-mill retail bankers that fumbled the ball.:)

Lets not split hairs, one large section of the city needed their house putting in order and it cost all of us a fortune.

Neo Liberalism is a simple concept living in a complicated world.

Cyberman60

Generali wrote: »

It means different accounting.

What is wrong with politicians that efficiency is a bad thing in the NHS. It seems that the electorate are stupid enough to believe that spending on the NHS is the same thing as good health outcomes.

Well, many are stupid enough to vote Labour come what may. Most Tory voters IMO do realise that spending more does not mean more efficient, and that even less spending, with reforms, can actually mean a better service.

Cyberman60

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

:rotfl:

I expect that all those fat cats enjoying the lucrative fruits of the "PFI" so-called 'initiative' [an oxymoron if ever I heard one] will be laughing in their offshore banks knowing they cannot be touched retrospectively.

Surely the largest private suppliers to the NHS are the drug companies. Now restricting their profits to 5% is going to be fun, Eddie!

The charities who normally do it at a loss will now get the all clear to bung in cost+5% invoices....

.... large gin & tonics all round....

... and surely there's a massive irony in that it was a Labour chancellor and PM Gordon Brown that fed the 'fat cats' with his heavily pro-PFI policy over 13 years.