Christine Jardine, "Ideally, politicians would not have anything to do with the NHS, it would be run by people who know about medicine and who don't care about the politics" #BBCQT
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Medical people are experts in medical matters, but the wrong people to run a business. In all my years in the NHS I never met a qualified competent manager.
What amazes me, is that in these conversations they never mention that "prevention is better than cure", sound public health initiatives could reduce the demand on hospitals spending on meds for avoidable conditions and further shorten hospital stays.
Which would mean longer lives in which to get ill. Long lives are undoubtedly a good thing, but let’s not think they’re cheaper. They’re much more expensive.
It may well be the profit motive in things like healthcare which happens to be the problem for sure. Something is just plainly starting to break, since we require decent health for the economy and a lot of help in our old age, there's quite the problem.
It’s not possible to make a profit from total health care. Only from individual episodes of body maintenance. If I am successful in preventing from dying of heart disease in your 50 (and I often am) then you’ll still be alive to get cancer in your sixties. Which means that your expensive drugs/
2/will still be needed when you retire from the workplace, and start drawing your pension instead of contributing to the exchequer. In all probability you’ll still be alive when you need full-time nursing home care, which is still more expensive.
Exactly so, if the root cause of crime would be destitution/desparation, then the solution would be to remedy the conditions causing that between wages and prices. Economic headwinds result in higher crime just as mass illness causes pressures in hospitals.
Not sure about that. Whilst undoubtedly partly true, how much crime is driven by people who are too lazy to earn an honest living, or just plain greedy?
Good point, there's certainly some drivers of it, such as organized crime, which is probably mostly around finance. The other ones may be down to socio-economics, but it's hard to say since so many crimes are unsolved. The data isn't there unfortunately.
Yes, please, PLEASE!! Some oversight, direction, checks and balance of course. But it really would make a difference if they could just get on and deliver without such rapidly changing micro management.
It's impossible to have a state provided universal health service and not have politics involved. You do also need to involve non-medical people; just because someone is a great doctor, it doesn't follow they are great at contracts and negotiations and other business aspects of delivering services.
Sorry but I agree. Healthcare professionals (not just doctors) are integral to the running of healthcare systems and they should be fully involved in it and taken heed of. But healthcare also needs lay people and other professionals involved in it's leadership if it's to meet population needs
Naive. Everything about the NHS is ‘off the scale’ political including its existence, its priorities, its funding and who delivers the health care. #NHS #keepournhspublic
Naiive. State funded healthcare is inherently socialist. Privately paid for healthcare is inherently capitalist. The fact that we have a functional socialist healthcare has always been an affront to conservatives.
Whether the NHS is or isn't part of the private sector is a political act of itself. The fact we have a healthcare system created by socialists under a socialist model has always been an insult to conservatives, hence the stealthy privatisation of it.
Except it costs an enormous amount of money which is raised from taxpayers. So what you are saying is that there should be no democratic controls on how taxes are spent.
It's public money, inevitably the Government has to decide how much is awarded to the NHS. Maybe a panel of NHS medics is needed to make funding decisions with the Health Secretary.
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