[the truth]

we pay a fortune for the nhs so it should be good....the weekend service is sub standard in many hospitals has been for decades...you can barely be scanned at weekends, in fact they dont even do swallow tests of oaps at weekends in many hospitals who are simply on the drip and not fed .......its not simply down to the money its the way they are run and the waste on these endless trust board staff...the nhs also fails to claim private insurance against many of its care bills. which is insane. if a patient has private care insurance to be cared for at home....that should cover as much as possible of the costs and the nhs should cover the rest. just common sense. this current strike is moronic too....the nhs should pump way more money into scanning people earlier, this would save way more saved costs on bed blocking and unnecessary pills and worsening health....scan immediately, get results straight away, diagnose quickly...then treat the problem. the nhs is run far more inefficiently than it need be...yes were all grateful it saves lives and does many great things, just as churches do many great things saving lives and feeidng the starving milllions. but that doesnt mean we should urgently address its failings, which are not all down to money. but more to do with commmon sense, organization, prioritizing....id draw up an nhs constitution too...to keep hearst and minds focused. at least the government and nhs seems to have gotten on top of the mrsa epidemic