NHS competition holds up creation of specialist cancer treatment centres | Politics | The Observer

This is an amazing article from the Guardian/Observer. It’s a MUST READ, in my view. Check it out!

NHS competition holds up creation of specialist cancer treatment centres | Politics | The Observer.

The article appears to blame delayed roll-out of cancer care improvements on the Government’s NHS competition policies.

In my mind, this article is pitched clearly at the Guardian’s readership who are typically anti greater privatization of the NHS.

Surely it’s time to stop squabbling over  ideology?

Let’s face the reality. Because of Government cock-ups, this Winter, fewer people will get quality Accident and Emergency care. Also Britain will continue to be denied the levels of cancer treatment available in the rest of Europe.

From the vantage of a political blogger, I am increasingly concerned that the UK’s main-stream media is inflaming the UK healthcare crisis, pandering to

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English: NHS logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

ideology  and sponsors.

Surely, it is obvious that it not in the UK’s national interest to keep throwing good money after bad on the National Health Service?

Are there any UK politicians, or mainstream journalists, brave enough to argue that the NHS must be scrapped and replaced by a new best-practice model of public healthcare?

Any thoughts?

 

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Jeremy Hunt accused of keeping parliament in dark over NHS plans | Politics | theguardian.com

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Second Life: National Health Service (UK): (Photo credit: rosefirerising)

This is an an excellent, MUST READ article from the Guardian. Check it out!

via Jeremy Hunt accused of keeping parliament in dark over NHS plans | Politics | theguardian.com.

This article is quite unbelievable. Yesterday, we saw that the Telegraph was talking up the chances of a Tory election win, white-washing David Cameron’s performance in Government. In the above Guardian article, I see further evidence of the omni-shambles across UK Government. Health Minister, Jeremy Hunt, was ordered to brief Parliament on forthcoming radical changes to Accident and Emergency departments across the UK (A&E). Meanwhile, bureaucrats at the Department of Health were leaking proposals to the media. This is all against a background where under the status quo of existing funding and manning/work-scheduling, it is widely accepted that UK A&E will melt-down this Winter – this is major failure or collapse territory!

Any thoughts on what’s really happening here?

 

 

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