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Trust me on the future of the NHS
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Gee | Report | 1 Nov 2013 18:32 |
Lies, damned lies, and statistics |
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DIZZI | Report | 1 Nov 2013 18:15 |
THEY CLOSED OUR A&E AND ITS NOW PART TIME |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 1 Nov 2013 18:00 |
Smokers are a major drain on the finances of the UK and HMG/NHS in particular which is why the govt is so keen for people to stop smoking. Apart from the obvious health issues smoking remains a major source of fires and fatalaties and pushes up insurance bills. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 1 Nov 2013 17:41 |
Tobacco tax raises around £10 billion, around 8% of what it costs to run the NHS. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 31 Oct 2013 22:00 |
and let's face it - if smokers gave up, the government would face a tremendous loss in taxes - when I worked for a tobacco company in the 50s and 60s, a pack of B & H was about 3/6 - The company got the 6d and the government the rest and I would imagine the same ratio applies today - the tax would have to come from somewhere else - so all in all, smokers make a massive contribution to the finances of this country |
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Suzanne | Report | 31 Oct 2013 21:26 |
the nhs in wales made the mistake of becoming trusts .and we have been going down hill ever since,agenda for change promised a much better service all round but it didnt deliver |
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JustJohn | Report | 31 Oct 2013 00:16 |
I still like the NHS. Obviously it is not quite what Nye thought it would be. But then he never thought we would all live to 110 and we would discover more and more expensive treatments to keep us alive till 120 or 130. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 31 Oct 2013 00:02 |
Once upon a time in the youkay engineering firms were run by engineers, airlines by people who knew how to fly, farms by farmers, armies by soldiers and so on and so forth right up to doctors surgeries which were run by doctors and hospitals which were run by doctors and matron. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 30 Oct 2013 22:18 |
making hospitals into Trusts was the death knell of the NHS - I worked for the NHS for thirty years and it was working well, then we went Trust and things rapidly went downhill and will continue to do so until someone puts the brakes on it and reverts back to what it was, which is unlikely to happen |
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Suzanne | Report | 30 Oct 2013 21:58 |
its been coming for a number of years, |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 30 Oct 2013 16:23 |
Suzanne is right the NHS as we know it has no future. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 30 Oct 2013 16:07 |
Although I accept improvement in some areas of the NHS are needed and have read about some people having bad experiences, I just cannot get my head round how you improve the NHS by cutting services :-S |
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Suzanne | Report | 30 Oct 2013 15:41 |
The NHS as we know it has no future . |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 30 Oct 2013 14:38 |
Today the government announced a major shake-up to NHS services in London paving the way for similar changes in other parts of the country. |
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