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Originally Posted by joeysteele
I still maintain the view that the NHS is likely far safer in the hands of Labour than the Conservatives, Lib Dems and UKIP.
To be fair to UKIP, they do believe in a free NHS for near al but have some selective issues that may bother me.
I really can never get a full account of just what they mean as to the NHS, on the many times I have talked to UKIP supporters they don't clear up the confusions I have had as to their real likely policy either.
The Conservatives are damaging the NHS,and will continue to do so, they are the party I in no way trust as to the NHS at all now.
I do not believe a word they say as to it when they say it is safe with them
neither now the Lib Dems either, how you could have a coalition govt. with no party setting out in the 2010 election a full re-organisation of the NHS.
A re-organisation denied repeatedly by David Cameron that one would never happen under his premiership.
For both parties to then put through legislation of a top down re-organisation of same was unbelievable and so they lost my trust completely on the issue.
This present govts. treatment of the junior Doctors too only makes me more hostile to believing any of their words as to the NHS.
However I cannot let Labour off the hook here either, they fiddled a bit with the NHS in their 13 years in power, leading to big problems in it too.
However I do believe they, with the Lib Dems too, in 2009/10 were coming to better plan for the NHS, with the integration of good social care packages too.
For me, wile we have all these trust managers and their endless number of 'clipboard' staff sucking wages and life out of the NHS,things will stay difficult.
I eagerly wait to hear some party state that trust managers need to be replaced with people who also really understand hands on care and are not looking for titles and nice offices.
I really think Labour should have done something about trust managers rather than uphold them while in office, made them far more accountable for things going wrong n the NHS and their respective hospitals under their charge.
However they didn't and they also left the door open for this Conservative party to mislead voters as to re-organisation and ten go on to cause more confusion, disillusionment and disarray among NHS staff across the board.
By their dictatorial approach rather than a consulting approach.
I do not think the NHS is safe at present at all, already some of my family who work in it have left it completely,saying the plans for it are risking more lives.
I despair at anyone who wants the NHS to be really more secure, voting for the Conservative party again.
If there is one party at present who cannot be trusted with the NHS, for me that is by far the Conservative party, especially under this current leadership.
There needs to be a much better plan from Labour too as to the NHS but really I believe for as long as the NHS is like Education, a political football, pulling part what the previous govt. does with each, then the NHS will get nowhere fast.
We need it to be a separate issue from party politics,with agreement and consensus agreed by the working together of the main and even all parties preferably.
So that when govts. change, the policy for the NHS does not and continuity and stability gets a chance to work for all.
I doubt that will ever come while we have this now hopeless in my view, electoral system in the UK.
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Thank you Joey I agree it should very much be a separate issue, it should like pensions be triple locked imo.
The trusts and clinical 'managers' were a terrible idea, the NHS is not a business first and yet was run like one leaving clinical staff tearing their hair out at some of the decisions made
