Improving the NHS

Richard the Lionheart · 23-05-2008, 10:10 AM

Fortunately, I very rarely use the NHS, but people I know who do complain of several things. Staff morale, waiting in A & E, waiting time to see specialists.

Could I ask people on here who use the NHS to record their problems when using the NHS, and suggest solutions please?

Smidgey · 23-05-2008, 10:37 AM

Problem: Huge waiting time for an appointment.

Solution: Disband the NHS.

tito · 23-05-2008, 11:12 AM

The biggest problem with the NHS is that it procures its funding at the barrel of a gun, efficiency is impossible.

Westcountryman · 24-05-2008, 04:50 AM

Problem 1: Almost impossible to see a doctor in a short space of time. Thanks to government targets (ie. All patients to see a doctor within a certain period) you can now only book an appointment on the actual day you want it - and if you don't book by 9am you're not going to get one.

Problem 2: I try to avoid going to hospital whenever possible because of the ridiculously long wait in A&E. Even when I got past A&E once and got straight onto a ward I discharged myself after 6 hours because I still hadn't seen a doctor and felt OK (I had been taken in by ambulance with an asthma attack).

Solution? Privatise the damn thing. If necessary buy those on low incomes health insurance from the government coffers.

BonnieDundee · 24-05-2008, 05:23 AM

Privatisation is unlikey to do anything unless it is decentralised and decentralisation would help if it remained public. So privatisation is not some magic bullet and might hurt if the NHS is carved up among a few large corporations which will bring little efficiency and more problems.

My solution is decentralise and I'd probably keep it public within that framework.

Richard the Lionheart · 24-05-2008, 06:22 AM

One solution might be to privatise the management of the NHS but keep the actual medical services under state control.

23-05-2008, 10:10 AM	#1 (permalink)
Richard the Lionheart Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 601 Party: Free England Party	Improving the NHS Fortunately, I very rarely use the NHS, but people I know who do complain of several things. Staff morale, waiting in A & E, waiting time to see specialists. Could I ask people on here who use the NHS to record their problems when using the NHS, and suggest solutions please? __________________ The Free England Party - England's Premier Nationalist Party www.freeengland.com .....Serious about England

23-05-2008, 10:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
Smidgey Uber Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 2,172 Party: Libertarian Party	Problem: Huge waiting time for an appointment. Solution: Disband the NHS. __________________ How vain is man, who boasts in fight the valour of gigantic might! -Georg Friedrich Händel

24-05-2008, 04:50 AM	#4 (permalink)
Westcountryman Uber Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: The Westcountry. Posts: 5,922 Party: None	Problem 1: Almost impossible to see a doctor in a short space of time. Thanks to government targets (ie. All patients to see a doctor within a certain period) you can now only book an appointment on the actual day you want it - and if you don't book by 9am you're not going to get one. Problem 2: I try to avoid going to hospital whenever possible because of the ridiculously long wait in A&E. Even when I got past A&E once and got straight onto a ward I discharged myself after 6 hours because I still hadn't seen a doctor and felt OK (I had been taken in by ambulance with an asthma attack). Solution? Privatise the damn thing. If necessary buy those on low incomes health insurance from the government coffers. __________________ Manus haec inimica tyrannis ense petit placidam sub libertate quietam - "This hand of mine, which is hostile to tyrants, seeks by the sword quiet peace under liberty."

24-05-2008, 05:23 AM	#5 (permalink)
BonnieDundee Uber Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Between Mallaig and Cornwall. Posts: 2,667	Privatisation is unlikey to do anything unless it is decentralised and decentralisation would help if it remained public. So privatisation is not some magic bullet and might hurt if the NHS is carved up among a few large corporations which will bring little efficiency and more problems. My solution is decentralise and I'd probably keep it public within that framework. __________________ "It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." -Bruce Schneier How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; build your own cabin and pss off front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.* Edward Abbey Leopold Kohr.

24-05-2008, 06:22 AM	#6 (permalink)
Richard the Lionheart Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 601 Party: Free England Party	One solution might be to privatise the management of the NHS but keep the actual medical services under state control. __________________ The Free England Party - England's Premier Nationalist Party www.freeengland.com .....Serious about England

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