www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/17/patients-england-want-right-to-see-gps-with-24-hours-enshrined-nhs-survey
Patients in England want right to see GPs with 24 hours enshrined in NHS
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What I don't understand is we cap how many doctors we train and so turn down many excellently qualified candidates each year because there's not enough space. Why not build a "University of Medicine" that just trains doctors/nurses/dentists and other such stuff and fill our ranks with those trainees rather than sending them to study biochemistry
You'd have to fund the NHS enough to hire them once they finished training for one thing. Our government is ideologically allergic to investing.
NHS funding is the highest its ever been. Money is not the issue, the NHS has many fundamental problems, funding not being one of them
Clearly that funding isn't going to where it's needed.
I'd be interesting in seeing how much goes to consultants, bank staff, dodgy Tory contracts, etc, and not to actually useful things.
It is going to where it's needed though - keeping our ever-growing legion of pensioners alive and draining the taxpayer dry via the triple-lock alive for as long as possible. Our aging population is a huge part of the reason why the NHS is under so much pressure
Nailed it. It’s demographics, and it’s getting worse.
So we should, kill all the old people?
There’s a colossal amount of wasted/misspent money in the NHS. That’s been an open secret for many years. There was a big scandal a few years ago when it was revealed NHS trusts up and down the country were buying things up to 800% higher than the RRP.
A unit in Nottingham’s queens medical centre just spent £60,000 on 9 reclining chairs which were crap and needed to go back. Yes that figure is accurate. They could have bought Lazy-boy’s with an inbuilt fridge for less.