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Every General Election, #Labour trots out the same old crutch, the #nhs
He's clearly forgotten how Labour not only retained privatisation during their last government but is also looking to outsource even more NHS services if his party wins! It's a myth that only Labour can save the NHS.
#Politics #generalelection2024

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gg74…


General election: Starmer promises to cut Welsh NHS waits

Ahead of a campaign visit to Wales, Keir Starmer says he will work with Welsh ministers to ease waits.
David Deans (BBC News)
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Adam Dalliance
Adam Dalliance
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Labour absolutely will not save the NHS, they have been quite plain in their intention to make more of it privately owned and less of it national.

If they save the Health Service it'll be at the expense of the National part and shareholders will get big chunks of all money spent on it.

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dick_turpin
dick_turpin
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Contrary to what some people might think, I would like to see some form of Free Health service available and certainly one better than I believe America has. Still, I'm also a realist, and the NHS is no longer sustainable in its present form. It has little to do with money and more with a failure to increase capacity to meet demand. The NHS is a victim of its own success; if it weren't so good at saving people, it would be able to cope better.
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Adam Dalliance
Adam Dalliance
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It's broken and needs fixing, but anything that can be done with private capital can also be done with public capital only the latter case is more efficient due to lower interest rates and no need to pay shareholders a cut.
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dick_turpin
dick_turpin
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The major problem is nobody is willing to say anything harsh about the NHS; it's always the government's fault. I did seven years with the NHS, and my daughter is a sister within the service, so I do have a bit of an insight as to what goes on internally. To be fair to everyone, it's actually a job that very few people want to do. I think if they offered ÂŁ1000 a week, they'd still struggle to retain staff. This is why the government is now forcing visa applicants to do so many hours of community nursing if they want to stay in the UK.
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Adam Dalliance
Adam Dalliance
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Making the jobs private won't make them better. Quite the reverse in my experience, but the health-service jobs are indeed not jobs I'd want to do even with ten times the money and half the hours, whether private or public.

Maybe we think the plan is to make the nurses shareholders and give them stock options? 😆

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