NHS hospitals registering as charities has to be the most depressing thing ever. "We are collecting the a new maternity department". Shouldn't the government be providing that? How have we let this become the new normal and not questioned it?
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British people hate paying tax, and vote for parties that promise to cut them. British people like giving to charities, because it makes them feel good about themselves.
It’s funny how the NHS is such a beloved institution, that even as a outsider who has never been to the UK, I still care deeply about the NHS. Even more so possibly than my own local public healthcare system.
They've been doing this for longer than the 50 years I've been on this planet.
I remember fundraising back in the late 70s and early 80s for cancer and X Ray equipment.
Yeah. Hospitals were charitably funded long before they were state funded. And NHS trusts aren't registering as charities. Many have a small 'friends of' type charity that fundraises around the edges.
Big money though, some of the sums raised. I remember back in the late 80s, our local hospital was trying to raise a million for some machine or another.
Because they wouldn't get funded properly, and they'd be subjected to all the same tedious analysis as regular ambulances, resulting in taxpayers whining that they don't want to pay for the "wrong" people to be saved and services being more reluctant to send them out in emergencies
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I remember fundraising back in the late 70s and early 80s for cancer and X Ray equipment.
It's a fix!