why does the uk government STILL deny the truth?

Question

the nhs is in crisis.It's so glaringly obvious.My Grandfather DIED because of cutbacks and post-op care.Patrica Hewitt still maintains everything is fine and dandy and the NHS is better because of her and Blairs sweeping reforms that are not only costing lives but jobs.Do these people live in an altered state of reality?You have to think so.
Time and time again,think-tanks,professors and very educated people are saying that this government's policys aren't working and are causing pain and suffering en-masse.Unyet STILL this bloody government DENY FACTS.Apart from waiting until the next election,what,just WHAT can we as the people of this country do to stop this systematic destruction of our country.Of course according to Blair we've never had it so good.So if him and his yes men ( and women ),deny what stares them in the face ( and they choose to ignore ),what can we do to change anything they choose to impose.

TO F,
Have YOU ever been to a coroners inquest that stated NHS 'services' were partly to blame

Answer 1

The problem is you can't have it all. Either the poor can't afford health service or we all get crappy service. Health care is expensive, who is going to pay?

Answer 2

The NHS is a sacred cow, and Politicians run scared of giving it the root and branch reform that it needs. As we have seen recently, pouring large sums of money into an unreformed NHS is a waste of resources. Blair uses the term investment, but what he is really doing is spending money, an entirely different thing. They always measure how good they are being to the NHS by stating how much money they have put into it. What they should be doing, of course, is measuring output, not monetary input. Targets should be scrapped, because they are meaningless, and because finding all kinds of underhand ways of achieving them exercises the minds of managers instead of getting on with their real work.

Because the NHS is a public body, it almost can't stop itself being inefficient, because it has, no competition, is unionised, is bureaucratic, politicised, riddled with committees and inertia. It gets away with it because it is never going to go out of business.

My wife died of cancer a few years ago, and our experience of the NHS wasn't a good one, although it would take too long to tell the tale. One thing that shouldn't have been done was to pass the training of nurses over to the universities. It is now far too academic and PC.

I don't think that the real problem with the NHS is lack of resources, it is because, like most public sector bodies as I have explained above, they do not use existing resources efficiently. I am afraid to say, that anything which is free at the point of delivery will be abused by some of those that use the service and some of those that provide it. Also, the NHS carries out many functions which a publicly funded organisation shouldn't be carrying out. Resources are also very much steered toward the female members of society. I make no value judgement here, just stating a fact.

There will always be resource issues as well, but that is why it is so important to have a radical re-think about how the NHS is run, and to determine what its priorities should be. In this regard, private medicine shouldn't be demonised by the political idealogues. The NHS also tends to shoot itself in the foot by appearing to promise more than it can deliver. Not a week goes by without some new discovery offering the possibility of a cure for various maladies, and these often don't seem to come to fruition.

Answer 3

I'm afraid one personal tragedy does not mean the NHS is in crisis. Fact is that there will never be enough money for the NHS because medical advances are always running well ahead of what can be afforded.

But only someone who is incredible naive, or refuses to accept the reality, would believe the NHS hasn't got better over the last 10 years. The (unbiased) evidence is that cancer detection and care has improved massively, waiting lists have gone down significantly, and the NHS has a lot more doctors and nurses.

Remember it was only 6 years ago that the Tories were proposing that we would all have to take out private medical insurance in order to get access to NHS care. So if you think things will get better when they are back in charge you are sadly deluded.

Answer 4

Imho the NHS has suffered since its early days from a lack of funding due to the enormous quantities of government money being directed into developing nuclear weapons and maintaining UK Armed Forces in various parts of the world because of the Cold War and other reasons that come under the umbrella of 'National Security'.

This is something for which all governments since 1945 are to blame, not just Tony's, though just to add insult to injury his government have just mortgaged £76bn of taxpayers' money on a replacement for Trident, a weapon system whose raison d'etre no longer exists (if indeed it ever did).

Btw to the earlier poster who seeks to blame immigrants for the decline of the NHS, please remember most immigrants to the UK work and therefore have to pay for their prescriptions.

What were you doing reading someone else's prescription sheet anyway?

Answer 5

Tony Blair as a PM is pretty smart to begin with especially when he 1st got elected.

However, for the last 5 years or so, his popularity and credibility down because some of the issues like the NHS are not getting any better. England needs a change in leadership style. Not someone who is busy sending British troops to the war to impose democracy but neglect majority of his own people especially for a better NHS standard and quality in England.

Look what happen in the USA. Does he learn anything yet? I mean the health care should be the right for everybody not for a big boss in any corporations for profits!

Answer 6

It doesn't really matter who you vote for. They are politicians and politicians are synonymous with lies and manipulation of the truth. If they admit they are wrong or do not know what they are doing or their policies are a failure they would be admitting that they were not up to the job. That is not deemed to be an acceptable approach as it is a sign of weakness and some other power hungry individual is waiting in the wings to metaphorically devour the weak.

After a period of time in power with a high majority (thank you partial representation) the government also has achieved an remarkable level of arrogance, thinking that they can get away with everything. You just need to look at the incredible self congratulatory, almost masturbatory, comments of the Chancellor during his recent budget to see just how this is true and will continue.

Answer 7

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.



Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap

Answer 8

More than a decade of chronic underfunding from the Tories is far more likely the cause of most of the NHS' problems. I do not think that the government says all problems with the NHS are resolved - but it is a long way better than when Labour took over!

Answer 9

You think it has been bad in England so far just wait until Robber Brown, with no parliamentary seat in England, gets into no 10. Then watch the tax all go North of the border to prop up his and the rest of the Scottish dictatorship's seats.

Answer 10

first you need to get over the idea that they are the government, they are actualy the enemy government, and you and the nhs are a toy for them to manipulate, how dare you complain while our beloved tony is trying to be president of the united states of europe, think of the ego of the poor man,
why dont you do the right thing by him and get all your psychiatrist together and officialy declair him mentaly insane, like hitler was, make a t.v. program about it. then he will listen to what you say.