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Originally Posted by Kizzy
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  |
I have felt this since I was 16 Kizzy.
I grumbled at some things Labour were doing with the NHS and I have always disliked the trust manager set up and their endless numbers of staff on sort of office duties.
However towards the end of the Labour govts. time in power, Andy Burnham and the Lib Dems too were in very constructive talks as to the NHS and the need to integrate better social care too.
The Conservatives were invited to be part of those consensus talks too but Andrew Lansley and therefore the Conservative party walked away from them.
The NHS is still reeling from the top down re-organisation done, after voters being promised it would not be done by the Conservatives, and staff are still not up to speed with that yet.
Now you have the demoralised junior Doctors and even a Conservative MP stating that the extra funds into the NHS this govt. says it is giving, are not a reality, and it is just shifting funds around.
This is why the Conservatives of all the parties,in my view, cannot be believed as to what they say about the NHS, their actions do not match their words.
Which is why,I think, until the NHS is made independent of party politics, no long term solution to problems are ever going to be found and certainly not by this present govt.
I would love to see all parties agreeing a proper funding set up for the NHS, that takes into account the new technology and equipment needed, and much moreso,a stable set of policy making as to it that stays in place no matter what govt. comes into power, to ensure continuity as I said before.
Stop this football approach with it and setting out on costly unnecessary re-organisations and also not deliberately picking squabbles with NHS staff, whether that be Nurses or Doctors or both as we have now.
The NHS should be safe with all parties but it is not,in my view, from their actions this last 6+ years now,with the present Conservative party.