Quote Originally Posted by EastStandRed View Post
The NHS needs some reforming and modernising .

It’s procurement needs to be totally overhauled and I’m sure they could save millions. I’d also abolish any treatments that aren’t medically necessary . Stop all the health tourists taking advantage. It needs to be just for the basics and do the basics well.

I agree with Yorkshireborn, you could tip an endless amount of money in and it would barely touch the sides never mind pay for pay rises for the staff .

Sort out the purchasing , strip it back to what it was designed to do .

Cut the foreign aid budget , that’s about £15b and what we pay into the EU which is about £9b net and put a large chunk of that £24b into it but only when it’s been reformed .
You'd think that a service as large as the NHS would have some real clout in procurement .

Clearly something is not right with their procurement policies .

I still have to wonder why it's possible to obtain free paracetamol on prescription when the cost in the shops is pretty insignificant .

Can't argue with much of what you say ESR and I'll defend the NHS all I can .

No doubt there will be some who will champion the privatisation = efficiency model and i suspect it's likely to be a factor with a reluctance to change things positively , sit back and let it burn may sit very well with the present government .

A fair bit of the NHS sectors are already privatised and this continues at an alarming rate
and yet we still see it move from one crisis to another .

You have to question the will here from the government to make it successful , admittedly it's a long game , privatisation of the NHS started under Thatcher but the potential profits are so vast it's clearly an end result worth waiting for in their eyes .