It’s been an interesting couple of weeks dealing with the NHS. I strongly support the idea of a health system for the people. The NHS tries to fulfil his roll but is underfunded ripped off by suppliers, doctors, and surgeons. GP’s on 100k plus are now nearly all going part time. The result, surgeries are finding ways to prevent people getting appointments, instead of what should be happening. They should be finding better ways to serve “the people “.
We pay these doctors great salaries and because NHS management have put such pressure on surgeries to self fund. This they do through clinics and other services but these are at the expense of the appointments systems.
There needs to be a complete re-think of the whole system and not by those who run it. There have been recommendations by some very good business owners but these have been ignored. Funding needs to be increased. A few pounds per month from each of us would still be cheaper than private medical insurance.
The NHS is one of the UK’s finest creations and admired around the world. Let’s at least make it possible to get a doctors appointment and cut out all the obstructions to do so.
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