Posted on 09/10/2016 3:18:33 PM PDT by NRx
The body that represents hospitals across England has issued a startling warning that the NHS is close to breaking point because of its escalating cash crisis.
Years of underfunding have left the service facing such “impossible” demands that without urgent extra investment in November’s autumn statement it will have to cut staff, bring in charges or introduce “draconian rationing” of treatment – all options that will provoke public disquiet, it says.
n an unprecedentedly bleak assessment of the NHS’s own health, NHS Providers, which speaks for hospital trust chairs and chief executives, tells ministers that widespread breaches of performance targets, chronic understaffing and huge overspends by hospitals mean that it is heading back to the visible decline it last experienced in the 1990s.
“Taken together this means the NHS is increasingly failing to do the job it wants to do and the public needs it to do, through no fault of its own,” Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, writes in the Observer.
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Understatement of the year.
Later
It was just a matter of time.
No, of course not.
Seems to me that socialised medicine, or anything else, lurches from one crisis to the next.
Bureaucracies are inefficient and not flexible enough to match the rapidly changing world.
Five year plans are only deigned to take care of last years problems.
My cousin’s husband is waiting for surgery in Berkshire, but Operation Room are unavailable because of instruments are out of order.
I bet they’re not understaffed with office bureaucrats, it’s just the public-facing “doers” that get cut, they want public outcry to increase funding. It’s that way with every large bureaucracy facing a funding problem. Make the public squeal to get more money, never cut administrative overhead.
Nothing that a nice big tax increase won’t solve./s
Isn’t socialism grand? Enjoy your death, Brits.
Don’t worry U.K., we’ll give you some company in a decade or so.
They are already rationing care. No medicine for fat people or smokers. Who are they going to extend it to?
So are our rural hospitals. Just as we knew would ahppen
Maybe restricting health care costs to actual Brits-and foreigners who can pay-might help bring those debts down.
“Who are they going to extend it to?”
Hopefully to all of the MPs and Buckingham palace.
Just sayin
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Oh, come on. They’re killing patients as fast as they can it’s just tough to get ahead of the curve.
Translation: they have run out of other people’s money and they need more.
Just import a few more million sick uneducated aFricans. I hear that’s the number one way to boost economies.
His Arrogance will be leaving office soon, maybe he could go over there and show them how to successfully operate the NHS version of CommieCare!
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