tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post5715218399892397218..comments2024-03-29T00:31:51.931+00:00Comments on HyperCRYPTICal: Saving our NHS ForesthyperCRYPTICalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-22505546660550606542011-03-26T16:19:19.965+00:002011-03-26T16:19:19.965+00:00Yay Northern Teacher!
Your wise comments have bee...Yay Northern Teacher!<br /><br />Your wise comments have been a miss across blogland! Hope you're well settled in your new home!<br /><br />Anna :o]hyperCRYPTICalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-20460316861292543172011-03-26T15:02:51.552+00:002011-03-26T15:02:51.552+00:00Thanks for the petition link, Anna. Duly signed. ...Thanks for the petition link, Anna. Duly signed. Am just catching up on my blog reading having moved house just 3 weeks ago. Hurray!NorthernTeachernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-56704722356043147002011-03-24T18:17:15.857+00:002011-03-24T18:17:15.857+00:00Thanks for your comment CC
I am vaguely(!) wise a...Thanks for your comment CC<br /><br />I am vaguely(!) wise and admittedly not learned and thus rely on your good self and others like you to open my eyes - and I am grateful that you do!<br /><br />I fear for my NHS and I fear more that the general public are allowing themselves to be 'dumbed down' and treat their world with apathy, believing all that they read in the tabloid press which seems to revel (indirectly)in anti NHS bilge published therein.<br /><br />Remembering 'The Winter of Discontent' and also 'I'm Backing Britain' I do so wish the general public would lift themselves from their apathy and begin an 'I'm Backing the NHS' campaign.<br /><br />If only.....<br /><br />Anna :o]hyperCRYPTICalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-46558209802562762002011-03-21T23:17:33.539+00:002011-03-21T23:17:33.539+00:00And yet it is not a true privatisation as it would...And yet it is not a true privatisation as it would not be much fun. The target victims would be the GPs and their consortia as the money is now with them. People will not even realise until it is too late. Private providers will cherry pick as they have to make profits or pay CEOs high bonuses. Monitor will be like the FSA; yeah and what did they do!<br /><br />Good Secondary care doctors are going to be a rarer commodity, yes commodity. They have always been as Private Insurers used to sign them on. Now they will buy up GPs consortia in order to channel cases to their own Consultants.<br /><br />Sadly, there is a group of MPs that could stop it and in fact they could become so popular. But would they do it?<br /><br />Thanks for your confidence.Cockroach Catcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440000294855006966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-23889167844585516662011-03-21T08:45:58.006+00:002011-03-21T08:45:58.006+00:00Thank you for your comments folks.
Frances: Sadly...Thank you for your comments folks.<br /><br />Frances: Sadly it is true that as a nation we have become quite apathetic and althought some of us protest re the rise of the 'nanny state', it would appear a lot of us are content with it and sit passively as our world falls apart around us.<br /><br />Nurses - Not so sure here for it is true that degree nursing students spend the majority of time ward based. Perhaps a visit to Militant Medical Nurse might be an eye opener? Her style is that of anger (I think justified), but look past it. Nurses appear to have become the scapegoat for all NHS ills, fired by the tabloid press and until recently, The Patients Association. I tend to think the Patients Association have now begun to open their eyes. The nurses on wards the general public think are nurses are often not nurses at all - but health care assistants, who are very hard to distinguish re very similar uniforms.<br /><br />Stafford: As the 'real' me I letter write - MPs, local rags and during the election time Tory HQ, The Blue Blog, etc; attempt to get local shops to display the above poster (image) - all give reasons why they can't, my GP wont(!) and belong to a certain 'group' but at a low key level.<br /><br />Unfortunatley as a nurse I cannot make myself high profile as I would 'bring my profession into disrepute' Highlighting starving grannies, folk waiting for ops, etc would be akin to committing professional suicide. Sadly it is the way things are and I have to be a realist.<br /><br />It is a truth that the coaliton government have only accelerated the steady privatisation of the NHS - the dreamchild of the previous Labour Government. This is the reason for the silence from the Labour Party.<br /><br />Anna :o]hyperCRYPTICalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-49539133450419487232011-03-19T20:19:28.507+00:002011-03-19T20:19:28.507+00:00Why do you presume any conservative government (wh...Why do you presume any conservative government (whose constituency is privately insured) would want to protect the NHS?<br />However, you do have a unique situation where Cameron is in coalition with a left wing party and would hate that, looking forward to winning a few more seats to govern without them.<br />So, he will be out to protect his seats at all costs.<br />So, you start by asking your local member, and the opposition party to respond to your demands for their policy on (list issues). You then start a campaign in the local press to whinge about the shortfall while continually quoting the opposition position. You keep that up for as long as it takes, repeating the message (include stories of real people waiting for ops, errors etc all down to harrassed nurses and doctors) and three things will happen.<br />1 Your public will become aware there is a better way.<br />2. Cameron will become jittery and eventually you will see it drag his attention away from Gadaffi, atomic power stations, his expense allowance etc.<br />3. The opposition will owe you, and having been quoted so often and widely, would not dare to renege!Stafford Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048757515249725540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3139696084392272622.post-53805156752007458992011-03-19T18:32:48.828+00:002011-03-19T18:32:48.828+00:00Replying in haste (babysitting grandchildren), I a...Replying in haste (babysitting grandchildren), I applaud your post, and agree with you. I think one of the reasons for apathy among the public is that people don't worry about something until it affects them personally.Until grandma is starving in her hospital bed because no-one has bothered to ensure she can feed herself, or until their operation has been cancelled three times, they simply don't seem to notice thath there's a problem. You're right. It really is time we all stood up to be counted and tried to do something about it.We cannot put the clocks back - sadly - but it would be a start if doctors were allowed to have a say in how the NHS is run (and nurses brought back onto the wards for their training - I've been banging on about this for years, and letters to the press have received a lot of support). <br /><br />People continue to refer to the NHS as "the envy of the world". Not any more, it isn't.Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.com