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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The problems with the NHS are not altogether new and the current model is unsustainable. You do not acknowledge the way in which the NHS has been made less bureaucratic (with the abolition of the expensive Primary Care Trusts), the investment put in to train up new doctors (that will take a full decade from when this increase was implemented to come through), the changes that are being implemented to increase the hours of opening of doctor's surgeries, and so on.
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Strange how earlier you said Mr Hunt was doing a mighty fine job and that everything in our NHS was pretty fine and dandy.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Unfortunately, the NHS is so unwieldy that it takes forever to turn the ship around, but turn it will. And let's not forget that when the Coalition Government came to power, Labour said it would be reckless to put more money into the NHS.
So it might be worth a thought to consider what the state of the NHS would be now had Labour got in.
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Both parties have been pretty inept at running the NHS as sadly both put party politics and points scoring before anything else sadly.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
He inherited a mess, remember, and he is having to deal with a worsening situation in a post recession situation. You don't expect much, do you? As I said, Labour would not have done anything positive with the NHS.
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Good grief it would be a mighty fine day when some could think and look beyond their own narrow politics whatever colour that is to see things through unbiased non-partisan eyes and then they might actually learn something...