O/T:- The CV19 Legacy

[TheBlackHorse]

... for the future, GP surgeries retain the telephone triage system to prevent time wasters visiting with broken finger nails; and cutting out the Friday/Saturday farce in A&E having to deal with self inflicted conditions of drink/drug overdoses. There, that solves SOME of the financial waste in the NHS.

[magpie_mania]

More people working from home.
More GP appointments by video calling / phone.
More getting online grocery shops.

Negative though, less smaller specialist shops and more online purchases.

[queenslandpie]

More people working from home.
More GP appointments by video calling / phone.
More getting online grocery shops.

Negative though, less smaller specialist shops and more online purchases.

Its a shame that the UK has allowed Amazon to get such a foothold. Its very small here thankfully.

[BigFatPie]

Yes, if there’s one lesson we need to learn from this crisis, it most certainly is;

‘How do we cut financial waste in the NHS’?

[The_Don_ORiordan]

Yes, if there’s one lesson we need to learn from this crisis, it most certainly is;

‘How do we cut financial waste in the NHS’?

Very good BFP. And I agree entirely. Whilst there is significant underfunding, there is also a fair amount of waste. Both need to be tackled, and have needed to be for some decades.

Or we need to rethink how we provide healthcare in this country.

[frenchmagpie]

No 1 - massive wealth tax on acquirers of vast fortunes. No-one earns a billion let alone billions
No 2 - cut off celebrity culture at the knees. Focus adulation on the people who make our lives better
No 3 - elect progressive governments who can implement this for the masses not just their pals

[BigFatPie]

Very good BFP. And I agree entirely. Whilst there is significant underfunding, there is also a fair amount of waste. Both need to be tackled, and have needed to be for some decades.

Or we need to rethink how we provide healthcare in this country.

Yeah, ‘tackling waste’. As a specific aim, it’s up there with McDonalds aiming not to poison people with their burgers. Online triage has been in my GP’s practice for quite a while and from a patient’s point of view seems to work well.

Frenchie’s post seems to capture some of the more ambitious aims we should be going for. But won’t.

[queenslandpie]

No 1 - massive wealth tax on acquirers of vast fortunes. No-one earns a billion let alone billions
No 2 - cut off celebrity culture at the knees. Focus adulation on the people who make our lives better
No 3 - elect progressive governments who can implement this for the masses not just their pals

3 kind of undercuts the lot. C'est la Ville with that bit. 1&2 absolutely will never happen.

[sidders]

1. Rid the planet of the scourge of Trump and Trumpism
2. Bring China 'to the table' and create fairer terms of global trade
3. Create a world that respects the Earth and all the creatures that dwell on it

[optipez]

The poor who have to go to work often on insecure contracts are going to get poorer. The keyboard bound middle classes are going to escape the worst of it while actually saving money.
The public sector will cruise through this, the private sector will be in real trouble in some sectors.
Amazon, Ebay, Twitter, Google , Facebook and Apple will become more powerful, our local home grown tax base will get hammered.
I don't blame the government for trying it's best to save the lives of the elderly and vulnerable, it's the opposite of the cliched heartless Tory narrative but the cost to our under 40s is disproportionately high and if this goes on its going to hit them for years to come.