Posted on 01/07/2025 1:39:44 AM PST by blueplum
Millions of people will continue to wait months for NHS treatment despite a series of ‘radical’ reforms to be unveiled by Keir Starmer on Monday....
Sir Keir will hail the reforms as a ‘key plank’ in Labour’s bid to transform Britain.
But a new target slipped out by Downing Street last night suggests that at least 35 per cent of all patients will continue to face waits of more than 18 weeks next year, down only slightly from the current figure of 42 per cent.
The figures underline warnings from Wes Streeting yesterday that delivering Labour’s pledge to restore the 18-week standard by the time of the next election two years later will be a ‘big, tough challenge’....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Millions of NHS patients are receiving sub-standard care at hundreds of failing GP surgeries, damning report reveals
Inspectors found people are being put at risk of harm, treated in dirty premises and being given vaccines that have been stored in a way that may render them ineffective.
Alarmingly, practices have been allowed to remain open despite being rated ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’...given the average practice has 10,172 patients on its list - it suggests 2.97million people are registered at a below-par provider...
Render them ineffective? We need to start rendering useless bureaucrats around the world.
Only a 4 1/2 month wait. What’s the problem? You get to pay for healthcare through taxes. Isn’t it worth it?
It’s worth noting that these problems didn’t magically spring up as soon as Starmer became prime minister. The Tories are equally complicit.
Reform Party or bust for the UK, I suppose.
Last year my wife spent 4 days in the ICU,
I myself spent a Day also.
Out of pocket costs
$1100.
We paid for years
into Medicare(still do) and I’m a somewhat
disabled Veteran.
People expect to get Schiff for free,
well it don’t work that way.
Doctors and nurse spend a fortune in time and money to
get where they are at, and they deserve/earn just compensation.
People that think medical treatment is a “right” get just what the article is about.
Leftovers.
Socialized Medicine!
How do you “improve long waiting lists”?
DEI healthcare.
You die.
Not a cent for illegal immigrants, non-taxpayers or useless foreign wars.
Well, yea, that would solve the long waiting list problem.
Keir Starmer is leftist scum.
X is awash with stories of how his government protects bad immigrant sorts (like militant Islamists) and has conservative Britons arrested for even mild speech that is deemed offensive. He is the current head of the deep state snake there.
Many other stories about him like this health one abound on X.
https://x.com/SamanthaTaghoy/status/1876336076161470471
“Medicare should cover all of your medical bills.”
No, it should not. People need to have some skin in the game.
Those are OK ideas, but we are talking about the Brits socialist healthcare system here.
Justin Castro of Canada can help with long wait times. MAiD.
The mixed public/private healthcare system in the U.S. is deteriorating rapidly. Lead times for appointments run from 3 weeks at the GP practice to 3-6 months for a specialist. Hospital ER’s are overflowing. Waits to get a regular bed at the local hospital of 2-3 days are common. Non emergency surgery wait times of 3-4 months are common.
Assembly line medicine is the norm and no provider looks holistically at the patient or coordinates care from multiple specialists. Preventative care is a joke. The annual Medicare wellness check is not a physical.
Concern for the patient as a human being disappeared with the Affordable Care Act. Today the patient is a revenue source for big pharma and corporate hospital/physician networks seeking to herd the human cattle through a process at the lowest possible cost. Medical insurance providers have great expertise in avoiding and denying claims. The paperwork generated by medical care providers, insurance companies, and Medicare takes hours for patients to decipher. Appeal processes are extremely difficult to navigate and are deliberately confusing and slow with insurance paid physicians, who never see the patient, add validity to denying care or treatment recommended by the physician who is seeing the patient.
Eighteen week wait times will be the norm in the U.S. within a few years based on current trends.
Indeed, I should have added that we are headed that way on the current track. The one thing citizens over there and we have in common is paying for all the ILLEGALS on tax dollars. And here especially as most ends up on the out-of-control federal debt.
4.5 months? Either you are well or dead. Either way the health system saved money! Appears to be their plan.
Isn’t it great when socialism takes a firmer grip? It sounds like Great Britain is an absolute paradise. I think we’ll move there.
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