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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You see, that is the lie that those who are 'weaponising' the NHS want you to believe, and you've just sucked it in!
There are no plans to have people pay for NHS treatment, which will remain free at the point of delivery, whether the public or private sector is providing the service.
Tha academy schools are run by the private sector, but they don't expect parents to pay for their children to get educated there, do they?
As for private patients in NHS wards, you forget that whether you are a NHS or private patient, you still have the right to NHS care. It should also be remembered that private patients take a lot of strain off the NHS.
As for private ambulances, they are being brought in to take the strain of an overloaded health service, caused by an ever growing number of people using it. Without the private sector, you would have even longer waits following 999 calls.
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Yes I've been sucked in, I only spend part of my working week in hospitals and am a member of the London ambulance trust. A good friend of mines son works for a private ambulance company, he's all but a paramedic and is one of the best paid front line staff, he's on 10 pounds an hour, he's colleagues are mainly on less and to be frank mostly aren't even worth that, this was emphasized a while back when he had to tell another crew that their patient had actually died whilst they were quing at hospital without them realising, they agreed she was " very very ill". I brought this up at the future of the ambulance service meeting at st Thomas hospital for the trust amongst many other horror stories staff had told me and it did cause some shock in the room before it turned into the usual snake oil sale of shysters trying to flog their wares and networking. Yes I'm the one who has been sucked in, imo we are in a race to the bottom and the best advice I can give to anyone in London is don't get ill.