>”So in the meantime, I’m looking to pull every single lever I can to make sure that people get treated as fast as possible and as safely as possible.
The one lever that he cannot pull though is restoring NHS investment to New Labour levels because of Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules and Starmer’s promise of not raising the biggest taxes.
One_Menu1900 on
Maybe they are even higher than believed Using age weight smoking excuses to delay ops and treatmentOr postponing them at last minute !
AKAGreyArea on
Probably best not to let the population get millions higher then
Glum-Manner-9972 on
Ah cool, a deadline in which none of them is going to even be in westminster…
Same ol’ same ol’Â
Shot_Laugh_2163 on
End hiring freezes that deliberately suppress the number of vacancies to save money and force current staff to do the work of 4.
Pay clinical staff enough money to stop them leaving.
Treat them with respect. Give them a fucking hook to hang their coat on, a locker for their bag (rather than the floor of a disused toilet), free parking instead of £60 a month just to come to work, working computers to do their job, enough supplies to physically care for patients, and an end to bizarre and unsafe rules like banning water bottles on the ward for staff working in 30 degree+ heat.
The NHS is an absolute hell hole for clinical staff.
WebDevWarrior on
What can he do?
* The proportion of elderly people is increasing every year.
* The proportion of these individuals living with increasingly complex health issues is increasing every year.
* Those older people are a triple threat to the countries budget (non-working / health-frail / claiming OAP).
* The proportion of young people to pay for this is dropping yearly (they are having fewer kids).
* Younger people are saddled with low pay, no housing, no infrastructure, no hope.
Its not the elderly peoples fault they have triggered a national disaster by way of existing, but its not the young peoples fault for refusing to engage when they are saddled with all the fallout and zero gains. Healthcare is a prime example of where there is no money because its already a sunk cost for one generation and its easy to see.
irving_braxiatel on
It’s not going to change much in the grand scheme of things, but just abolish adult GICs and make all over 18s transgender healthcare informed consent. It’d save money and resources, turn a decades-long waiting list into a years-long one, and bring the NHS in line with other country’s healthcare.
parkway_parkway on
They’re refusing to talk about an aging population as a cause of this and without addressing that there’s nothing they can do.
Waiting lists are only going to get longer and the system is going to be under more and more strain.
They could invest a lot more money, which means more taxes which they’ve ruled out, or find massive efficiencies, which is unlikely to be easy.
They’re sowing the seeds of their own downfall by not managing everyone’s expectations properly about how shit the NHS is going to have to be when you spread the money out amongst more and more people who are older, need more complex and new expensive treatments.
Hollywood-is-DOA on
By then you’ll have a lot of the over 65s, sadly no longer with us. So the list by proxy of age related deaths, will have fallen. Nobody on here will like this comment but it’s a fact that they made stars work in their favour.
Sithfish on
Where the hell is this evenings and weekends plan they announced before the election? When does it start?
Sapceghost1 on
There’s still far too many senior and middle managers that constantly shift and reorganize the organization on an annual basis to justify their huge salaries, without any thought or care about the impact on the staff below them. They pretend to listen to feedback from the workers on the ground, but this is only lip service as every decision they make ignores what we’ve fed back and makes the situation worse.
There is this unholy obsession with meetings and meetings about meetings, and then wonder why we get behind on our work.
TinFish77 on
Nothing they are about to do has been tested electorally-speaking because they carefully didn’t mention any of it.
I really don’t see this government holding up for 5 years.
Ok_Whereas3797 on
Have you tried Austerity? That works wonders apparently, it’s all any Elected Government seems to be bothered with.
Pasbags112 on
I’m not a fan of the move to using the private sector more and more but if it wasn’t for right to choose allowing me to use a private company for my ADHD assessment I’d be on a six year NHS waitlistÂ
Scary-Spinach1955 on
This is such a band aid at best. We need to be preventing the medical issues where we can with an overweight and aging population
maxthelabradore on
The autism assessment waiting list where I live is 8-10 years
The private/NHS funded referall is “only” 3 years.
GKT_Doc on
Numbers on Waiting lists per se don’t matter. It’s the time taken to get treatment that matters.
RemoveSuch80 on
Millions.. Is that because of the influx of migrants maybe?
Not being funny but there should be priority if you are English
Witty_Magazine_1339 on
And perhaps have the NHS practice preventative car in this country where they detect health problems before said health problems lead to people not being able to work let along function properly!
Andreus on
Except for trans people, whom he is content to torture.
Dry_Sandwich_860 on
Well, the sad reality is that many of the Boomers who voted for the chaos and decline will have experienced the inevitable consequences of not being able to get care by 2029.
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>”So in the meantime, I’m looking to pull every single lever I can to make sure that people get treated as fast as possible and as safely as possible.
The one lever that he cannot pull though is restoring NHS investment to New Labour levels because of Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules and Starmer’s promise of not raising the biggest taxes.
Maybe they are even higher than believed Using age weight smoking excuses to delay ops and treatmentOr postponing them at last minute !
Probably best not to let the population get millions higher then
Ah cool, a deadline in which none of them is going to even be in westminster…
Same ol’ same ol’Â
End hiring freezes that deliberately suppress the number of vacancies to save money and force current staff to do the work of 4.
Pay clinical staff enough money to stop them leaving.
Treat them with respect. Give them a fucking hook to hang their coat on, a locker for their bag (rather than the floor of a disused toilet), free parking instead of £60 a month just to come to work, working computers to do their job, enough supplies to physically care for patients, and an end to bizarre and unsafe rules like banning water bottles on the ward for staff working in 30 degree+ heat.
The NHS is an absolute hell hole for clinical staff.
What can he do?
* The proportion of elderly people is increasing every year.
* The proportion of these individuals living with increasingly complex health issues is increasing every year.
* Those older people are a triple threat to the countries budget (non-working / health-frail / claiming OAP).
* The proportion of young people to pay for this is dropping yearly (they are having fewer kids).
* Younger people are saddled with low pay, no housing, no infrastructure, no hope.
Its not the elderly peoples fault they have triggered a national disaster by way of existing, but its not the young peoples fault for refusing to engage when they are saddled with all the fallout and zero gains. Healthcare is a prime example of where there is no money because its already a sunk cost for one generation and its easy to see.
It’s not going to change much in the grand scheme of things, but just abolish adult GICs and make all over 18s transgender healthcare informed consent. It’d save money and resources, turn a decades-long waiting list into a years-long one, and bring the NHS in line with other country’s healthcare.
They’re refusing to talk about an aging population as a cause of this and without addressing that there’s nothing they can do.
Waiting lists are only going to get longer and the system is going to be under more and more strain.
They could invest a lot more money, which means more taxes which they’ve ruled out, or find massive efficiencies, which is unlikely to be easy.
They’re sowing the seeds of their own downfall by not managing everyone’s expectations properly about how shit the NHS is going to have to be when you spread the money out amongst more and more people who are older, need more complex and new expensive treatments.
By then you’ll have a lot of the over 65s, sadly no longer with us. So the list by proxy of age related deaths, will have fallen. Nobody on here will like this comment but it’s a fact that they made stars work in their favour.
Where the hell is this evenings and weekends plan they announced before the election? When does it start?
There’s still far too many senior and middle managers that constantly shift and reorganize the organization on an annual basis to justify their huge salaries, without any thought or care about the impact on the staff below them. They pretend to listen to feedback from the workers on the ground, but this is only lip service as every decision they make ignores what we’ve fed back and makes the situation worse.
There is this unholy obsession with meetings and meetings about meetings, and then wonder why we get behind on our work.
Nothing they are about to do has been tested electorally-speaking because they carefully didn’t mention any of it.
I really don’t see this government holding up for 5 years.
Have you tried Austerity? That works wonders apparently, it’s all any Elected Government seems to be bothered with.
I’m not a fan of the move to using the private sector more and more but if it wasn’t for right to choose allowing me to use a private company for my ADHD assessment I’d be on a six year NHS waitlistÂ
This is such a band aid at best. We need to be preventing the medical issues where we can with an overweight and aging population
The autism assessment waiting list where I live is 8-10 years
The private/NHS funded referall is “only” 3 years.
Numbers on Waiting lists per se don’t matter. It’s the time taken to get treatment that matters.
Millions.. Is that because of the influx of migrants maybe?
Not being funny but there should be priority if you are English
And perhaps have the NHS practice preventative car in this country where they detect health problems before said health problems lead to people not being able to work let along function properly!
Except for trans people, whom he is content to torture.
Well, the sad reality is that many of the Boomers who voted for the chaos and decline will have experienced the inevitable consequences of not being able to get care by 2029.