If we continue to bury our heads in the sand the NHS wont improve at all the front line services up and down the UK do an incredible job with the very little they do. It doesn’t get the gratitude it deserves imo.

Yea we have a great foundation

But it’s being mismanaged

the could probably reduce a lot of demand by utilising technology more... everyone has a smartphone these days... for simple things they can use video chats with central GPs

That is being introduced

But it’s slow across all GPd

And not advertised

sure... mostly theyre just going to say "that looks bad you should go see the local GP"... but at least it will cut out the.. umm thats just a rash, heres a prescription for some antibiotics

Ya

theres only a private service that does it at the moment

as far as Ive seen...

I think if we look at the reasons for people leaving to go to Canada New Zealand ect and address those it can help with GPs at least

Well GPs themselves are private

er... whats it called... keep thinking lidl for some reason....

They’re a very weird system tbh

its named something stupid like that... its scandanavian

livi

thats it

Ah I don’t know much about it tbh

they keep posting leaflets through my door https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4596

ah thats why... its for here only at the moment.. "LIVI, which trades as Kry in Sweden and Norway, has signed a deal with a federation of 40 practices in Surrey to allow patients registered at these practices to access NHS GP consultations, prescriptions, and medical advice on their smartphone or tablet."

I think it is weird there isnt a panel of NHS staff that look at it as a whole and work and run it overall like a panel body that is elected within the NHS and puts in the request of funds ect to the government and they run it overall

I dont know if there is or has been before

Just envision videochats with GPs and them telling you to stick your own finger up your own arsehole to check your own prostate

But these people know what needs fixed and know what to do best for it

GPs are generally pretty rubbish here

God i just had a flash back of family guy when Peter got his prostate exam

😕

> You can throw money at the NHS doesn’t mean it’s going to be more functioning
Compared to it being left as it is now. Shit wages, staff requirements, etc. @PureEvilPie

Money WILL make the NHS better.

Money by itself will not

It's going to go a long way towards fixing it

LIke I said, you need to move social care into the NHS and sort out the staffing crisis

Money training staff and real leadership

Hiring more staff and higher wages to retain them

Less sex changes and diversity officers

That's literally a meme

Hiring more staff by itself will help retain them since they're overworked right now

its not like they arent throwing money at it https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/166A5/production/_101731819_chart-nhs_spend-srmmu-nc.png

thats adjusted for inflation too

Higher wages will help retain them, because the private sector offers higher wages @Eccles