The Office for Budget Responsibility made a presentation on the financial risks facing the UK yesterday:
The OBR considered health care issues as a cause of financial risk and presented this data:
The data shows that as a result of continual underinvestment by the UK government we have well below average numbers of acute care beds, and so limited capacity to manage crises, below-average numbers of doctors and nurses and below average numbers of CT scanners.
And you wonder why we have a massive Covid crisis in the UK and an NHS which may well not be able to cope?
Don't blame those who work for the NHS.
Blame Cameron, May and Johnson: they underfunded the NHS and created this crisis.
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If you don’t mind, David Cameron is just a moron.
He was egged on by a real bastard: George Gideon Oliver Osborne.
Completely agree PSR.
There will still be plenty of money for the ‘favoured few’
Ministers have published the health and care bill. This will see section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, which requires all contracts to be put out for competitive tender, repealed. Unfortunately this won’t be a rolling back of privatisation. Quite the contrary. The bill will replace Clinical Commissioning Groups with 42 new regional Integrated Care Systems. These new ICS boards which will include private healthcare providers and be responsible for commissioning and bringing together NHS and local government services, and could see companies handed contracts without going through a tender process.
Correct
That is my fear