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Originally Posted by Taf
Hospital managers have learned that they cause "mayhem" by pushing departments to book procedures for the winter, knowing full well that they will have to be cancelled and cause a kickback against the government.
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The problem with the idea of not scheduling operations for the winter is that this is a 3 to 4 month period where the crisis can hit. Whilst they might have to explore this you can't have a quarter of the year written off for operations especially when for at least half of that time you will likely have the capacity to perform the operations.
As for the idea it's some sort of callous conspiracy from hospitals is there any evidence there is an abnormally high amount of operations booked for January?
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
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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Ultimately it's the politicians who are responsible for the running of the National Health Service. It's typically those who do not want to be held political responsible that urge something isn't politicised. In the end it is a political issue.
I think for a start it's would be easier to take the politics out of this if there were political consensus on how to reform the NHS. You can have a cross-party committee and I think there is a good argument for that but I can't imagine them coming to an agreement.