Quote:
Originally Posted by heero_yuy
About as reliable as the internet rumour mill then. 
Let's see: Ed "Two kitchens" promises thousands of nurses but only £2.5m a year. DC promises £8m a year but you believe there'll be nurse number cuts under a Tory government because the Mirror says so.  |
Got it in one!
I continue to be amazed by those who keep saying the NHS is not safe with the Tories when it was Labour who oversaw Mid Staffs and tried to surpress the information. It was Labour who 're-negotiated' the doctor's contracts without thinking about the patients, resulting in the A&E crisis because patients can no longer get surgery appointments when they need them. It was Labour who went for the PFI initiative which has crippled hospitals with ridiculous maintenance payments (have you seen what they charge to change a light bulb?). It was Labour who said David Cameron's proposal to increase spending on the NHS was 'irresponsible' at the beginning of this Parliament.
Whereas, David Cameron is still committed to putting in £8 billion to the NHS, far exceeding anything that Labour is proposing, he has taken out a whole layer of bureaucracy that was the Primary Care Trusts and put it into doctors and nurses and when things go wrong at a local level, it gets addressed rather than swept under the carpet. He is pledging 7 day opening of surgeries. That will reduce A&E waiting times substantially.
And yet you cannot shake people from this old fashioned and no longer relevant belief that the NHS is safer with Labour.
What tosh! If Labour get back, I can't think how the hospitals will deteriorate under them. I'm guessing that drinking water out of vases might be the least of the controversies! Will they still be able to afford vases under Labour? They will be drinking out of toilets if the vases disappear.
I know who I trust, and it ain't Labour, who have run out of ideas and the ability to care. All they seem to worry about is tick boxes and increasing bureaucracy when they should be concentrating on improving medical services for people.