I am sick and tired of hearing that the NHS is in financial crisis and that they have to axe front line services to balance the books. By threateneing cuts in front line services and trying to lay the blame on the Government, they know they can manipulate the media and public opinion without having to accept any responsibility for how they are blatantly wasting public money on serving their own itnerests. It is about time sympathy for the NHS came to an end.
The NHS, by their own admission, is now in receipt of record levels of Government Funding. The Modernisation Agenda funding was allocated to secure significant improvements in patient services, choice, modern treatments, hospital at home, increased numbers of front line staff such as nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists and shorter waiting times. Has the money been spent on one or any of these. No it has not. It has been used to create tiers of non-essential management posts (very highly paid but with little responsibility), job re-evaluations so that basic admin and management jobs were upgraded thus affording the opportunity to award themselves huge pay rises (not commensurate with the level of responsibiloity attached to the posts), give GPs a hugh pay rise so that their salary is now a scandal given the limited sphere of responsibility they hold and the fact, given recent news stories, that they make so many mistakes in diagnosis, they fail to assess symptoms properly and thus fail to refer patients to specialist assessments that pateints are either dying, being left seriously disabled or are suffering in pain because the G.Ps won’t listen or revise their medical opinions. This huge pay rise came with a decrease in their responsibilities and allow Consultants to charge upwards of £3,000 (to their employers the NHS) to come in on a Saturday morning to manage a clinic to clear the backlog of the waiting lists which they create by prioritising their private clients over the NHS clients – who they are paid by the public to prioritise not relegate to third world status on their waiting lists. So they get paid a salary by the NHS, spend most of their time doing private work lining their own pockets, creating waiting lists in the process and then charge their employers unacceptable fees to come in and clear their waiting lists. Nice work if you can get it!
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