Wen, to random
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

‘will extend child benefit to wealthier families

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/06/tories-pledge-to-raise-pay-threshold-for-child-benefit-charge

So at an estimated cost of £1.5Bn the threshold for will be extended to £120,00 a year.

They really are taking the piss here. usage the highest it has ever been, the on its knees, in crisis and now this.

Apparently it will be paid for by cracking down on . What thought this gem up? They really want to lose.

JugglingWithEggs, to random
@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social avatar

#Sunak in last 5 mins said he would use private healthcare and is proud to be privately educated.

Rich man who is part of the 1% has no idea how the rest live and no real interest In #NHS or state education for all.

#ITVDebate

Schnuckster, to random
@Schnuckster@beige.party avatar

These attacks should be treated as terrorism and investigated as such, and if the filth are too busy doing fuck all, use MI5. And jail those guilty for several decades.

https://news.sky.com/story/procedures-cancelled-after-cyber-attack-affects-major-london-hospitals-13147595

paka, to random
@paka@mastodon.scot avatar

94% of NHS outsourced contracts expire in next parliament

In April Labour pledged to bring our rail services into public ownership as their current private contracts expire

Labour can do the same thing in the #OurNHS

Take 1 minute to send our letter to Labour’s health lead & demand he commit to bring outsourced #NHS services back into NHS when contracts expire

#Healthcare is #devolved matter, what happens in England affects your nation

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/wes-streeting-commit-bring-nhs-outsourced-services-back-house-their-contracts-end

#SaveOurNHS #GeneralElection

ChrisMayLA6, to random
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

The number of people with private health insurance has risen to nearly 6m in the UK (the highest since the 2008 financial crisis) and the number of paid-for hospital admissions continues to rise (by 7% last year).

As we always like say... 'follow the money'.

If you want to see the aim of Tory defunding of the NHS & the crisis in public healthcare they have engineered in the last decade... all you need to do is look at who (which companies) are benefitting!

#healthcare #NHS

lovethisland, to GPS
@lovethisland@mastodon.scot avatar

Thursday’s Health Centre of the Week.

This is Roxburgh Street Surgery in Galashiels.

#healthcentreoftheweek

#healthcare #nhs #doctors #gps #scotland #lawyer #law #scotslaw #scotslawyer #andydrane

CarolineLucas, to random
@CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu avatar

RT by @CarolineLucas: PFI was a failure that still costs public service budgets dearly. And Labour’s NHS plans are full of MORE creeping privatisation.

In Brighton, concern for the future of the #NHS is huge. People here don’t want a Labour govt without Green MPs to defend it. #privatisationfail

[2024-05-29 07:52 UTC]

Geri, to random
@Geri@mastodon.online avatar

How awful and demoralising it must be to work in an industry like the to be told again and again that that industry is "broken"

Wen, to UKpolitics
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

A simplistic headline for a simplistic wanabee minister

Wes Streeting: Cultural rot means NHS puts itself before the public

http://archive.today/2024.05.25-173744/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wes-streeting-cultural-rot-in-nhs-has-put-the-brand-before-the-public-25wsdzvsz

NO. If you means some managers in a ‘reformed system’, instigated by the Tories and pushed hard by Labour maybe. What will increased privatisation do?

#NHS #UkPolitics #LabourCorruption #PowerSeaking

therightarticle, to random
@therightarticle@mas.to avatar

Labour already blasted by doctors over #NHS plans – and it’s only day ONE of the general election

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/05/23/labour-nhs-private-sector/

smaurizi, to Israel
@smaurizi@mastodon.social avatar

"The billions of our pounds that have been used to subsidise the weapons going to #Israel, that have been used to slaughter people in #Gaza, should be going into social housing, into our schools, into our #NHS", says #AndrewFeinstein

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Is the answer to 'dental deserts' to force newly trained dentists to work for the NHS for the first years of their career (or to pay back the costs of their training)?

Well, unless Labour adopt such an approach we may never know, but the crisis in NHS dentistry might be alleviated by some form of national service requirement from dentists (alongside a better funding model!)?.

It may not be the best answer, but these are desperate times in dentistry.

#NHS #health
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/23/new-dentists-could-be-forced-to-work-in-nhs-to-tackle-englands-dental-deserts

girlabtvillage, to UKpolitics
@girlabtvillage@mas.to avatar
ThyckHyde, to random
@ThyckHyde@mastodon.scot avatar

#BBCLauraK just stated that there are terrible problems with the #Scottish #NHS. What's she on about - of course there are problems after 14 years of Tory mismanagement and corruption but we haven't even had strikes here unlike the rest of UK.

sadgrove, to random
@sadgrove@mastodon.scot avatar

‘The Institute for Fiscal Studies: day-to-day #NHS spending grew by 2.7% a year during the current parliament, well short of the 3.3% annual increases pledged by Boris Johnson in 2019.’ No #Brexit dividend there then.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/14/the-guardian-view-on-health-spending-a-broken-promise-that-voters-are-unlikely-to-forget-or-forgive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

transactualuk, to random
@transactualuk@mastodon.social avatar

Trans inclusive healthcare starts with you. But don't worry, TransActual are here to help. If you're a healthcare professional we now offer access to our highly rated introductory courses. We're running An Introduction to Trans Inclusive Care for GPs on Wednesday 29th May at 1pm. For more info and to book, or to find dates of other upcoming courses, go to https://www.transactual.org.uk/training

#HealthInequalities #PrimaryCare #GP #NHS #HealthInequality #EDI #Training #CPD

dick_turpin, to politics

So, the theory being put forward by #ReformUK is a 20% tax relief on all private healthcare and insurance. The inference being that if more people take up private healthcare, there will be less demand on the #nhs. Sounds logical, right? The only problem is that we all know what will happen. If demand falls, so will the funding. Another "innovative?" idea is: "𝘊𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘜𝘒 & 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴." so basically shipping our sick and injured to another country. #politics

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

You'll be unsurprised that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed 'extra' NHS spending promised by the Tories was eaten up by inflation;

this is what happens when the focus is no nominal not real (inflation-adjusted) values.

Its been obvious that the defunding of the NHS was at least partly achieved by being publicly obscure (with media collusion) about inflation-adjusted funding & instead trumpeting absolute/nominal funding increases.

#NHS #health #austerity
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/nhs-spending-rise-lags-behind-tory-funding-pledges-ifs-finds

Uraael, to uk

The NHS is great but it has limits: yesterday was the first time I've ever heard a GP drop their official demeanour to let their anger at a lack-of-resource situation show.

My local area has very limited provision for mental health services related to Autism or ADHD; he got angry that they were failing patients, having to tell them to go private. (Meaning me in this instance, and another two people last week).

#NHS #UK

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Camilla Cavendish is too cynical about the BMA & its handling of the doctors' strike.

But she's right on the button when she points out much of 'junior' Doctor disquiet is not about wages but about working conditions.

And this, local Trusts can do something about by offering subsidised meals, free parking & better rests facilities (as has been done in Milton Keynes).

As she concludes, if we want Doctors 'to take care of us, we need to look after them'

#NHS #health #doctors
h/t FT

AnnaAnthro, (edited ) to uk
@AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social avatar

Five babies in #England reported dead after developing whooping cough.

Vaccines for expecting moms and kids exist.

First major outbreak in 20 years. #uk #nhs

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/09/whooping-cough-five-babies-england-die

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Its not just the availability of staff, or of beds/equipment that lies behind the NHS crisis, its a shortage of drugs too....

The Tories wrecking strategy has been multi-dimensional & has come together compounding each element to put us in the position where the political clients of private healthcare can ensure they can profit from the chaos (see earlier post on agency nurses)

The NHS is in real & present danger... and (now) not just from the right!

#NHS #health

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/09/medicine-shortages-in-england-beyond-critical-pharmacists-warn

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Another aspect to the staffing crisis in the NHS; the excessive billing for nurses (check out the surplus kept by the agency) providing flexible, emergency shift cover.

The mismanagement of the health service is draining cash out of the system & putting it in private firms' pockets....

And no, its not a bug in the system, its a feature; its classic Tory wrecking.

And any claims by the Tories they're going to end such 'profiteering' should be ignored!

#nhs #health
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68900203

pedestrians1st, to random
@pedestrians1st@mastodon.online avatar

“An agency providing last-minute freelance nurses to NHS hospitals is routinely charging up to £2,000 a shift.” Excellent business model for privatised NHS services. #NHS

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

#NHS trial uses daily doses of food #allergens to tackle severe reactions - https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/08/nhs-trial-uses-daily-doses-of-food-allergens-to-tackle-severe-reactions "‘Life-transforming’ trial giving children and young people with milk or peanut allergy small doses to train their bodies to tolerate it" makes sense

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