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I don't understand this, the NHS is hammered left right and centre, how can it not be as near being as perfect as it can be by now.

In the last 50 years,Labour have governed for 24 years and the Conservatives 26, it is time to stop using the NHS as a political football and get full concensus on the future of the NHS.
When Andy Burnham was Health secretary in the last years of the Labour Govt to 2010, he tried to get concensus politics going with the Lib Dems and the Conservatives.
Andrew Lansley, possibly the worse ever Shadow then actual Health secretary, would have none of it and walked away from such dealings.

It was another reason I couldn't vote for the Conservatives in 2010, I didn't trust them then as to the NHS and I definitely don't now especially after David Cameron gave his word there would be no full reform of the NHS but then did it, despite not winning an overall majority in 2010
Shame again on the Lib Dems for ever allowing him to get any major reforms through so I wouldn't trust them either because they would be so hypocritical they would, if likely needed, back Labours plans to repeal the reforms they supported if it helped keep them in some power base after the next election.

As to teaching NHS staff to care, well that should have been the norm anyway, I actually think Jeremy Hunt is right to have the standards of care and basic care looked at again and new training to be included where necessary.

For me again, I throw my frustration and anger at the trust management who put undue pressures on the staff and who are a good number of people in every hospital who actually don't do one single thing as to contributing to hands on care for patients.

Politicians need to stop the blame game though as to the NHS and try to create concensus as to its future, although I do hope if Labour win the 2015 election that Andy Burnham does set out to repeal as much of the disastrous reforms this coalition Govt has put in place which will likely make matters a great deal worse.
That will have my support and if he is the new Health secretary after 2015, I really hope he does that and then moves on hopefully with some concensus politics in mind for the future after that.

There will always be times of some hospitals, care homes etc failing and there will be times where things overall don't run as smoothly as they should but basic care should be a right and those providing care should be well trained and more to the point willing to carry that out.