Featured Maybe A Stupid Thread But Got To Say It.

I believe there’s already a campaign been started to erect a memorial for key workers who’ve sadly passed away through this crisis. There was a piece on the news about it last night Joe

 

Get where your coming from on this joe, I think this will and should happen for sure, but also being realistic we have to first win the war !!!

 

Exfooooookinzactly!!!!! far too early for this jibba yet!!!!!!

 

Joe, there are a number of Facebook groups planning national rides to thank and raise funds

 

VOTE BREXIT Oh! We did.

 

I'm pretty sure there will be memorials erected to commemorate the front line workers who have died (and are dying) but just like a war memorial I suspect this will be done after the pandemic has ended. Nice sentiment Joe.

 

Keeping it contentious.......

Can we please separate all of our care staff (clinicians and support) from the institution of the NHS? I cannot understand (I can!) how it has become such a Holy Cow and object of bizarre worship. The Italians are not clapping and cheering their ‘NHS’ but their health workers.

The true test of a health system is:

A) what it costs
B) its results/outcomes

By international measures the NHS is expensive and inefficient. The French and German models are marginally more expensive (but we tend not to include private health expenditure in our figures) and far more responsive to patient needs. Waiting lists?

And let’s not forget most of our elderly care already IS privately provided and the Care Quality Commission reports consistently has the publicly run homes at the bottom end of performance.

OK we were maybe the first with State funded healthcare in 1948 (created in various steps from 1909 and agreed under a wartime Conservative lead National Government whatever Labour would have us believe)
BUT
there is no way we would create anything like it today. It has all the classic problems of a nationalised industry with endemic political interference and bureaucracy inhibiting clinical outputs.

The PPE farce/scandal is the Government trying to avoid being on the hook for its predecessor’s and NHS failures to fund a stockpile. It clearly never existed except in name and the whole house of cards was built on just in time from China. Great and cheap until you have a pandemic.

 

Joe you continue your cause and keep us informed on its progress and I hope you have success with all our help take care mate

 

I agree with your post, but as you are asking the question it seemed inevitable after the political comment in the initial post. Best think twice before introducing politics that has no bearing on the subject matter.