Bingo!
If an independent accountant looked over the NHS books they'll be gob smacked of what they spend and waste. Overpriced contracts and medicines etc. Too many chiefs and not enough indians. Too many people on the NHS gravy train.
Take the increase in NI, the money from that will do nothing. It'll be used to cover staff wage increases and get lost elsewhere.
Biggest issue with the NHS is the board of directors, which are mostly made up of doctors and/or professors, people who are experts in their fields, but have absolutely zero skills in running a multi-billion pound organisation!
The NHS should be ran like a FTSE 100 company by people with a wealth of business experience. Let the doctors and professors treat the patients and others run the NHS like a company.
Shit, bring in Alan Sugar lol
Perfect example of how shite the NHS are at running things is my missus had treatment for her knees. In Nottingham we have Queens Hospital and next door is a new hospital called The Circle. The Circle was privately run using NHS staff and everytime me and the missus went it was a faultless experience. Appointments were on time, treatment was brilliant, communications etc, all excellent. Then the private companies contract ran out and the NHS decided not to renew. Within a month it was chaos! We were sent to the wrong wards, then wards didnt have the right paperwork, appointments were late. The place fell apart! Thats how shit the NHS directors are!
I do think the NHS should possibly be privatised in some form, it would become far more efficient.
Yes.
Part public / Part private funded via tiers of insurance is an idea to ponder. Although I don't think this government cabinet is the ones to do the reform.
Basics stay free i.e GP appt, general bloods, screenings for certain stuff etc, but rest require a nominal fee. (just an example)
Bit like the French health care, which I believe was ranked number 1.
Problem is any discussion with NHS is done via emotion and not logic and it's a political tool, so reform will never happen.
Also people also seem to think only two ways
UK way i.e NHS (there is a reason nobody has copied this model lol)
USA way where they be swiping that credit card while dieing in an ambulance lol
Surely plenty of ways to look at and try make it more efficient with less waste, starting with removing £70k a year "diversity champions"
Or if stays public funded only, then cut out a lot of the middle management and spend more on front line services and systems to make stuff faster and swift, with the option to pay a small fee for self referrals to certain departments rather than have 5 appts before even discussion of a referral.
Just thinking out loud really, could be well off the mark, but genuinely it does need some sort of change for the longevity of actual speedy good care as it varies per trust and per section.