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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You can't just keep chucking shedloads of money into the NHS. We need a thorough investigation into the way this organisation works, including how better use of technology, less waste, improving home care services, more use of volunteers and adopting ideas from the best health care services operating abroad could make it more efficient. We also need to look again at what the NHS provides free at the point of delivery. Visitors to this country should be charged and to assist the process, they should be required to have health insurance before passing border control.
As a temporary measure, perhaps the NHS should arrange for more operations to be carried out abroad to reduce the backlog.
I think the reckless waste of taxpayer's money should cease. Nobody would seriously run a business the way the NHS is run. The whole thing should be decentralised, with hospitals, surgeries, etc running independently of government bureaucracy.
It is essential that we take the politics out of this. You cannot manage the NHS from the House of Commons, and 'weaponising' the NHS is a disgusting concept. This is about people's lives, not politicians and their egos.
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That's why I said as a short-term measure, we need to spend more money on social care and the NHS.
I don't know what you mean by the weaponise jargon but it's an important issue that comes up at every election so shouldn't be off limits in discussions and elections. You will never get the politics out of tax-payee/NI-funded organisations unless you're in a country like North Korea.
The NHS is quite a decentralised organisation. Local hospitals are independent trusts and GPs surgeries, dispensing pharmacists and opticians are all independently run. Some say this is part of the problem with different systems from one NHS provider to the next.