Still possible

Hence not inherently bad

But ideally avoided. Else we risk pushing up costs and getting less for our money

But, something which would be good

It's suited to stand-alone bulk work that can be contracted out

Like testing

Is allowing the NHS to do similar contracts that the military do

Thus getting the benefits of both the private and public sector

While still keeping costs relatively lower

Either way, the NHS is hamstrung by unions and lack of staff. You could significantly improve the viability just by filling the roles

Which comes from a lack of funding

It needs more money. Simple as.

Its hamstrung by people misusing it as well. Stop going to the GP because you have a headache.

More money and more home grown bodies into it we need to promote the NHS to people born here for job with better wages, benefits and pensions, the NHS is like an onion the more we peel back the more issues pop up and tbh we need leaders to fix it not corporate prostitutes or career politicians

You can improve funding by moving social care into the NHS - improperly cared-for elderly/vulnerable and the mentally ill are a huge drain on hospitals

They're also an impossible drain on councils who currently have to try funding it

Move social care into the NHS alongside it's funding, and sort out the training places, and most of the other problems will resolve themselves

Residential care should be free for all who need it, with an equivalent amount avaiable as a subsidy if someone wants to go private

I would agree with the social care side the lack of community nurses, occupational therapists and so on is beyond ridiculous.

The amount of hospital beds and A+E time taken up by elderly/vulnerable people because social care is shit is staggering

Its the same negligence, incompetence and mismanagement of the elected that has decimated the communities over the UK, a country that prided itself of people front and centre that had working communities and towns and flourishing cities has now became a dog eat dog waste land with little industries left and the ones we do are severely underfunded and failing.

looks like grenades being used in france now as well as sweden

this guys face got fcked up https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1197144589687238656?s=20

Not surprised really the system is crashing the structures are breaking and it needs a reboot possibly forced but looking at it i think the way things are shaping up in the next decade tops a totalitarian communist reform of Europe binding everyone together will be enforced.

Not what i want in any way shape or form but sadly i see them enforcing it.

Not convinced it will be communist in the form that people recognise

More likely to be a fascist state

Corporatist autocracy

>The GLI-F4 instant tear gas grenade is an explosive tear gas grenade, manufactured by the company Alsetex.

@wacka Why is france using explosive shit against protestors

Because the protestors are evil far-right terrorists, Loremaster

Ah yes

the Socialists

Would be the same in many ways surely then ? @Eccles

wheres that list...

of headlines over the decades showing the same old "NHS at crisis point"

since about the 50's

its still he best performing health service in the world

I would like to see them myself my wife was advised from the lecturers at University yo either go abroad to work or look at a different role within the NHS because of underfunding or lack of demand despite the cry out for help for more bodies across all fronts.

She changed her mind from midwifery to child nursing which she end up quitting in 3rd year for reasons im not sure would be appropriate in here if im honest.

real terms - https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/166A5/production/_101731819_chart-nhs_spend-srmmu-nc.png