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[jtcod] 23/6/2018 10:39

The lack of funding in the NHS gets a lot of exposure and has always been a high profile political subject. Those acute shortages, bad experiences and abominable conditions for staff are mirrored in education but perhaps because the recipients of the service are children rather than adults the risks and events are less seen or heard.Imo there are going to be some horror stories coming out of primary schools in coming years because the system now forces schools to let go of key staff to balance the budgets. Critical staffing levels are now impossible to maintain. In primary schools I know of head teachers and deputies voluntarily going down to part time to balance the budget. Letting go of up to 70% of teaching assistants with the same aim. I heard of one Head teacher taking a pay cut by going down to 3 days and still having to cover permanently in the kitchen during lunch hours because they couldn't afford to staff the kitchen properly. These schools have budgets down to the nearest pound on every item and yet still cannot provide the basic staff cover.Primary schools these days have high levels of children who would not be there in times past. Autistic children who need one on one care. Severely troubled 6 year olds who will attempt to injure or stab a member of staff given the first opportunity. You think a 6 year old can be easily managed. Some are not. Education is next I think. Obviously not on as grand a scale as mid staffs but the public will be just as incredulous and horrified to learn of the circumstances when something goes seriously wrong.

[mr roper] 23/6/2018 10:24

Don’t forget the impact of population growth. The last 15 years has seen an additional 7m people added to the uk population.

I’d be all for taking health out of the political spectrum altogether and have it run by a non political independent body.

[jtcod] 23/6/2018 09:57

Hazl I think the NHS is not faring well because we simply cannot afford the original vision. It's a regrettable state of affairs that despite being obvious for decades has been left to fester because of things like the political bias of being shackled to an idea, blind faith in the people's 'right' to care and stubborn pride in the system and ideal.To me, Kiwi's suggestion represents a sensible approach to the problem but regrettably it would have been just as sensible 30 yrs ago.Regarding Mid StaffsI really feel for the members of staff who did care in that situation and made complaints which fell on deaf ears but soldiered on. Their careers will be forever blighted by the notoriety of events there.

[hazl] 23/6/2018 09:25

I usually enjoy M Teide's posts but cannot agree with the conclusions in the NHS post.
The NHS was, and still is, a great institution that should be preserved.

The reason it is not faring as well,as it used to over the last 'x' number of years,is because of continued political pressure to denigrate it.

[mr roper] 23/6/2018 09:19

The Swiss and French systems are both pretty decent. I’d say a superior experience to the nhs from my personal experiences of them both.

[7kiwi] 23/6/2018 09:09

SO, I specifically mention countries such as Holland, France, Switzerland and Singapore as ideas for how we might run our health service differently, and Bluster asks how America is doing.

America's health service is even worse than ours imho, and shouldn't be a model for reform.

[mr roper] 23/6/2018 08:51

Probably best to get our own house in order before pointing at others.

Mid staffs was like something out of a horror story.

[blusteradjuster] 23/6/2018 08:15

I was thinking of ways to remove sugar and saturated fat from our diets.

Apparently Mid-Staffs is an example of the evils of the state?!


Let’s look to laissez-faire America.

How’s their opioid-addiction/diabetes/gun-death/suicide stats looking?

[7kiwi] 23/6/2018 01:57

This is so on the money it hurts. pic.twitter.com/OMzBjKbfjA

— Tim Johns (@timoncheese)

[7kiwi] 22/6/2018 22:59

Yes, some people make poor choices. But that is their choice.

Scandals like Mid-Staffs and Gosport show a state-run monopoly service actively killing people.

[blusteradjuster] 22/6/2018 22:41

Preventative.

Regulation for the benefit of public health.

It’s clear that, left to their own devices - not at all swayed by saturation marketing/advertising - people make poor lifestyle choices.

Free markets don’t effectively safeguard public health.

[7kiwi] 22/6/2018 22:34

MT,

Good post.

The NHS model is so good, no other country has replicated the model.

Even the Commonwealth report that rated the NHS positively on a number of relatively irrelevant measures, rated the NHS very poorly on clinical outcomes.

I am not in favour of raising taxes (or borrowing) to increase funding to the NHS in its current form.

We need to take a long look at alternative funding models that preserve 'free at the point of use' principle, but also break the inefficient and ineffective state monopoly. The Netherlands, Singapore or Switzerland would be good examples to consider.

[mount teide] 22/6/2018 13:49

We are constantly reminded by disingenuous politicians our NHS is best in the world - it is so good most of them have private health insurance.

Harold Shipman managed to terminate the lives of at least 218 people over 20 years and now we find out that Dr Jane Barton may have terminated the lives of up to 833 patients at Gosport NHS hospital over a period of 11 years.


A report on the latest outrage claims the hospital, local and national authorities failed to act in ways that "protected patients and relatives - you don't say! How many people have been fired? No one. It beggars belief, that Barton, who was found guilty of "serious professional misconduct" and censured for a failure of care of patients between 1996 and 1999 was never prosecuted nor even struck off the medical record.

Imagine the reaction of the Labour party and liberal left if these monstrous outrages had been carried out in a private sector hospital!



The mark of all successful heath services if Preventative Health Care - so how is our marvellous NHS doing in this respect? Very badly!

Data published in the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) study indicated that 28.1% of adults in the United Kingdom were recognised as clinically obese with a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 30.

In 2014 62% of adults in England were classified as overweight (a body mass index of 25 or above) or obese, compared to 53% 20 years earlier. More than two-thirds of men and almost six in 10 women are overweight or obese.

WHO experts have predicted that by the year 2020 one third of the United Kingdom population could be obese. Rising levels of obesity are a major challenge to public health and a huge and escalating cost.

There are expected to be 11 million more obese adults in the UK by 2030, accruing up to 668,000 additional cases of diabetes mellitus, 461,000 cases of heart disease and stroke, 130,000 cases of cancer, with associated medical costs set to increase by £2.0Bn per year by 2030. Adult obesity rates have almost quadrupled in the last 25 years.

[jtcod] 22/6/2018 13:48

Greek Debt Relief DealhTTps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44573548

[jtcod] 22/6/2018 13:46

I mentioned recently that the Russell 2000 index of small cap companies had an average PE of 89 when the loss making companies were taken out. Well here's some data going back to 2008. It also includes the Cape calculation of 10year average earnings. Perhaps an explanation is that it is harder to short, being that the index is made up of small cap companies. I'm guessing but either way the values have gone bonkers!hTTp://siblisresearch.com/data/russell-2000-pe-yield/

[jtcod] 22/6/2018 11:38

Quite fascinating mroalan

[top tips] 22/6/2018 08:19

Pantheon (PANR) about to blow for easy 5x bagger.

[mr roper] 21/6/2018 06:01

I don’t think Froome and Sky would have gone the TUE route after the fallout from Wiggins cheating. Like it or not, the best cyclists over the years have been taking drugs. Froome and Sky don’t get the benefit of the doubt here. The only reason his test failure became public is because a Guardian journalist found out and told them to go public or he would. Brailsford et al at Sky have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and willing to do anything to win.

I fell for the Lance story. Post lance, no cyclist gets the benefit of 5he doubt from me.

[jtcod] 20/6/2018 07:30

The Shenzhen has started a new session and seems to have stabilised up 0.4%

[jtcod] 20/6/2018 06:39

Perhaps this is related? It looks like classic Trump administration diversion tacticshTTps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/44537372

[jtcod] 20/6/2018 06:33

On the same topic CFC, Microsoft staff are lobbying to have their employer pull out of the contract due to the parent/child separationshTTps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44543352