Trapper John wrote:I certainly believe that in the OP - have seen it myself on numerous occasions - but wasn't it ever thus?
The NHS has been neglected by every government in the past 30 years or more, it's a monster that needs taming and no-one has been able to do it or had the will to do it.
One thing is for certain 'privatisation' is not the answer. It needs to get back to its original intention, offering health care at the point of need, it isn't and should never be sold to us as a panacea.
It's today's culture which has made things far worse than it should be, sometimes you've just got to tell the woman who comes into A&E that the headache she has is just that, a fucking headache - now piss off and take a couple of paracetamol, so I can deal with someone who really needs my help.
It's how it should be, at one time people would 'police' themselves, not go to hospitals and waste doctors and nurses time, unfortunately Blair's nanny state approach ruined that and created several generations of dumb twats who can't even tie their own shoe laces without supervision and think sneezing twice in succession means they have cancer of the nose.
It needs fixing and soon, otherwise we'll lose the single greatest social achievement in human history because we weren't strong enough to keep it from collapsing.
Few problems the NHS needs to solve from the 'insiders' i know...
Regularly overstretched in areas where population increse due to immigration has boomed out of control.
Total over prescription of medicines that feckless individuals burden the state with rather than accepting their own responsibility..asprin, travel sickness meds etc. These cost the NHS a fortune and should be bought by people themselves.
Bureaucracy (ballooned out of control under blair.) Get rid.
Treating lifestyle 'illnesses'. Feckless drain the system rather than helping themselves (lefties all over for you).