More advertising of Private Medical Care. Take your choice from these and others I am becoming increasingly irritated or even annoyed, with the seemingly growing number of adverts on social media pages, search engines and numerous web pages urging me to buy Private Medical cover. Now,I have nothing against private health care as an option, provided that it is done exclusively in private custom built hospitals and nursing homes, with private hospital staff, and does not overlap NHS facilities in NHS hospitals and does not as is the case now, lead to a two tier standard of service where NHS patients and staff are somehow reduced to a second rate status. Private wards, restaurants, special facilities or other "special treatments" have no place in our NHS hospitals.Mixing the two in the hope that nobody will notice is wrong and it is unfair. The common feature of these advertisements, is the statement or implied suggestion that by taking out insurance with these com...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/24/elderly-care-_n_3808625.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Care For Elderly Relatives? You Should Get Time Off Work, Says Hunt Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt Clearly, another case of yet another government minister operating mouth before brain. (This seems to be a common phenomenon on the ConDem coalition.) Care for elderly relatives is not, as Mr Hunt seems to think, an activity which can be performed for short periods of time, organised to fit in with a normal working day, albeit a day of flexible hours.Taken to its logical conclusion, Hunt's proposal would require the "carer" to give up employment to provide the relative with anywhere near an adequate level of care. Would the government provide financial or other support for those choosing to provide care rather than work in paid employment? Somehow I think not.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mid-staffs-inquiry-how-a-10year-coverup-was-uncovered-8484075.html "They were failed by a system which ignored the warning signs and put corporate self-interest and cost control ahead of patients and safety.” Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust Report A scathing indictment of a system and culture which, sadly, is not limited to Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. Already we have the statement that another eight hospitals in 5 other NHS Trusts are to be investigated as a matter of urgency. There are without doubt other hospitals which should be subjected to scrutiny, and their performance and shortcomings exposed. Of course this is not to say that all hospitals in all Trusts are providing inadequate or incompetent standards of service for their patients. There are some, perhaps many hospitals where the standards of care are beyond reproach, From my own ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/one-nhs-trust-in-five-is-in-bad-financial-trouble--and-department-of-health-is-failing-to-plan-for-bankruptcies-8231603.html Administrators appointed to oversee the crisis-hit South London NHS Healthcare Trust recommended that it be broken up and run by neighbouring NHS trusts, or offered to private companies.Thirty-nine organisations have expressed interest in running parts of the trust, including Circle, Care UK, Serco and Virgin Care. South London NHS Trust The crass stupidity of a policy which considers that the NHS is a business in all respects the same, as a business selling cans of baked beans. No doubt the real agenda is to create the conditions where a "failing NHS Trust", can be privatised and sold off to Tory party contributors. The covert campaign by the Tory right against the NHS, is not a conspiracy theory. The evidence of their systematic destruction of health a...