Newsnight produced an asinine programme on the 75th anniversary of the NHS last night. It was bland, hyperbolic, and undemanding. It ended with a weird rendition of happy birthday which seemed wholly inappropriate for an institution.
What was not mentioned was the fact that on the very same day that they chose to celebrate this, consultants decided to go on strike for the first time, and junior doctors are also taking industrial action.
What a very odd oversight from the BBC. Is it that they deliberately wanted to overlook the state of the NHS?
You can see why so many good journalists want to quit the BBC.
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Class warfare demands dilettante and distorting journalists!
Can’t wait for the BBC programme on how the UK has become “world-beating” on tackling climate change!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/28/uk-has-made-no-progress-on-climate-plan-say-governments-own-advisers
Broadcasting Bollocks Continuously………………oh why do we put up with them?
I’m thinking of getting rid of my TV to be honest so they can stick their TV license where the sun does not shine.
Useless.
I got rid of my TV over 15 years ago. Not looked back. 🙂
Watched it also and agree completely, and selecting Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge which is hardly an average NHS hospital as location was weird
I am sitting in the waiting area of a large hospital. As I get older I am spending more time in the NHS. Tory cuts are slowly bleeding the service. It is deliberate policy.
Everybody can console themselves with the thought that in the event of vile-Liebore winning the next election……….nothing in the NHS will change. Nothing.
For a feel of how things will look with vile-liebore in power, one only needs to look to the other side of the world at Australia. Here is a factual short piece (& certainly more factual than the BBC puff-piece on the NHS) on the Auzzie Liebore party (aka “Shit-Lite).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHB0vDhdM3c
Those of a sensitive disposition should not watch.
The actual 75th birthday is next Wednesday. Newsnight and the BBC probably knew they would not be able to get a programme like that across next week because there are so many groups having demos in opposition to the privatisation of the NHS. They never had anybody serious about the NHS on that programme last night.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qcOysrzstEtYFtYHRbxnjOZmtFJssLyO6
Join this next Wednesday if you can. It’s SOSNHS
The more on there the better.
Did anybody see any of Hancock’s poor me exhibition yesterday at the Covid enquiry?
It was as if he was pretending he had nothing to do with it; he just did as he was told by everyone else, and took no responsibility for it. Last night’s Newsnight NHS made me think of that. They were pretending that what was happening to the NHS was nothing to do with them, even though the Lansley reforms came in ten years ago last Easter. We need more reform, they were saying, even though we are in the biggest reform, to ICS boards, since Lansley. Hunt was in charge when the Lansley reforms came in, but you wouldn’t know so now.
You know how every new PM pretends they had nothing to do with previous PMs and the tory administration starts with the new one? That’s the way I think those in charge of the NHS see things.
Hard to imagine what vile spin the BBC will put onto to the water authorities mismanagement. The BBC may as well be run by Rupert Murdoch with its current intent to distort and lie about matters important to the public!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/28/mounting-debts-and-public-anger-could-finally-sink-uk-water-companies
There is no NHS. It’s not National at all, it’s regional. There is no centralised purchasing or management and it’s run by regional and separate trusts. Many of the workers within the NHS are from outside contractors. It would be more honest to refer to it as the BHS ( British not Bulls**t) or UKHS. And it’s definitely not the best in the world.
But it’s not British or UK. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own systems, even though they are given money by the UK government.
That’s why Welsh and Scottish MPs get annoyed when their respective NHSs are criticised. They cannot raise money for the NHS themselves.
When the Lansley reforms came in the headed notepaper changed. In England it’s called NHSE.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/nhs-75-your-wish-our-nhs-its-75th-birthday
Just in case anyone wants to know what is happening in their areas.