Posted on 01/20/2015 2:35:41 PM PST by Beave Meister
The NHS is ‘not fit for the future’ and unless it undergoes radical change it may be forced to abandon free healthcare for all, in the future, the service's top doctor has warned. Medical director of NHS England Professor Sir Bruce Keogh said the NHS must become far less reliant on hospitals and needed a ‘complete transformation’ of the way it operates. Sir Bruce told the Guardian: ‘If the NHS continues to function as it does now, it’s going to really struggle to cope because the model of delivery and service that we have at the moment is not fit for the future.’ GP surgeries need to be given more resources to cope with the pressures of demand and tight budgets, he added.
In order for the NHS to keep itself sustainable, he said more services need to happen under the same roof – for example diagnostics tests and an expanded range of treatments at their GP surgery. Sir Bruce added: ‘If not, we will get to a place where the NHS becomes unaffordable and we will have to make some very difficult decisions which will get to the very heart of the principle of the NHS and its values.
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Coming to *some* in America.Remember...Congress voted to exempt themselves,among others.
Totally unexpected.
Interestingly, the NHS (more than 65 years old) worked well in the first half of its life, when the emphasis was on GPs, and hospitals were used only for tougher cases.
“free healthcare”?
What is “free” about it?
Just the other day I was in a Twitter debate with someone proclaiming the superiority of NHS
Watts da matter, did ya run outa udder peoples $?
In their zeal to take healthcare business from the “greedy capitalists” the electorate stole it, gave it to the greedy socialists, and will live worse for the decision. I guess it is too much to expect that the British morons who supported “free healthcare” in the first place will see the light now that they have to pay for substandard healthcare.
Ha....It was founded on a lie....Attlee the socialist defeated war hero Churchill by promising "free medical treatment for the returning soldiers, their families and the rest of the UK population.
...and once elected nationalized road and rail transport, coal, electricity and gas.....rationing continued into the mid 50's.
Now the NHS has the "Liverpool Pathway" that is a quick trip from ward to morgue bypassing hospice...for the elderly, pre-mature babies, teenagers smashed up in motorcycle accidents and anyone else who is a "burden to society"
But of course, all the dictatorial government power that came with it will remain.
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