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Topic: Re:Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,
Posted by: George Knox
Date/Time: 14/10/14 16:31:00

Pickles got very prickly when challenged in Question Time about the huge top down costs. He said it had led to employing many more doctors and nurses. With well over one million employees in NHS how would mere mortals like me really know?

Not only are more medicines required. So are more hospital beds to shorten waiting times. Some beds are kept free to meet a serious emergency. If otherwise these empty beds are used, the hospital does not get paid by the NHS for filling these beds.

Some one needs to tell Minister Hunt that the population is going to increase by 1M in London, which therefore does not justify closing hospitals and selling the land, only to leave nowhere for new hospitals to be built when we are 9M. Tell him and all Tories till they get it.

Surprisingly the average age of residents is quite low in West London. However that will rise considerably in the next few decades we are told.

So how anyone can argue that the NHS should remain totally free with all these massive costs in the pipeline, especially as we are slowly getting modern technology, is not in touch with reality. And that before accounting for the so called 30 Bn shortfall.

I thought someone might come up with the same old ostrich obstacles to getting people to pay. Do the French still pay, and then reclaim? They certainly used to.

Give every one a card and turn them away if they don't have one. Just ensure that card charges profit the NHS or don't do it. Make a small number of exceptions to the rule of refusing people. Like when some one is unconscious.

Is it money that keeps patients away from the doctor when they bleed. They won't if Ebola hits this country. I would need to be very convinced about the factors which stop patients seeking healthcare..


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I am starting to lose faith in the NHS04/10/14 19:28:00 Susan Kelly
   Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS05/10/14 17:33:00 Vanessa Smith
   Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 09:07:00 Angus McPhail
      Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 09:29:00 Guy Lambert
         Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 09:48:00 Vanessa Smith
            Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 10:10:00 Nigel Brooks
         Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 11:42:00 Will Watson
      Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 11:22:00 Susan Kelly
   Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 11:36:00 Tomasz Keller
      Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 11:54:00 Iris Hill
         Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 12:35:00 Nigel Brooks
            Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 12:52:00 Angus McPhail
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 12:58:00 Will Watson
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 13:12:00 Iris Hill
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 14:21:00 Arnold Saxton
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 14:11:00 Vanessa Smith
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 14:23:00 Will Watson
                        Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 14:48:00 Philippa Bond
                           Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS06/10/14 15:20:00 Angus McPhail
                              Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS08/10/14 12:06:00 Will Watson
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS08/10/14 13:57:00 Guy Lambert
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS08/10/14 14:26:00 Will Watson
                                       Medical tourism08/10/14 15:27:00 Sandie Goodman
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS08/10/14 16:21:00 Susan Kelly
                              Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS08/10/14 15:28:00 Andrew Cumming
   Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,08/10/14 15:39:00 Richard Greenhough
      Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,09/10/14 10:13:00 Sam Hearn
         Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,09/10/14 10:46:00 Guy Lambert
            Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,09/10/14 11:31:00 Gerry Tan
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,09/10/14 13:16:00 Vanessa Smith
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,09/10/14 14:04:00 Philippa Bond
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,09/10/14 14:00:00 David Roberts
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,13/10/14 19:03:00 Kathleen Healy
                  :I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,13/10/14 23:40:00 George Knox
                     Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,14/10/14 00:18:00 Guy Lambert
                        Re:Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,14/10/14 09:31:00 Vanessa Smith
                        Re:Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,14/10/14 11:11:00 Kathleen Healy
                           Re:Re:Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,14/10/14 13:34:00 Sam Hearn
                              Re:Re:Re:Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,14/10/14 14:43:00 Vanessa Smith
                           Re:Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,14/10/14 16:31:00 George Knox
                              Re:Re:Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,14/10/14 16:52:00 Guy Lambert
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re::I am starting to lose faith in the NHS, the banks, the energy companies, the pension funds, insurers,14/10/14 19:18:00 Kathleen Healy

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