Well, no it isn't helpful to doctors. And, no it isn't helpful to patients. But it does make it easier for Wes Streeting to sell privatisation as the answer.
Health leaders are worried patients may be put off seeking help, the BBC learns.
No need to take my word for it, just listen to Wes who: "warned that the NHS will get no extra funding from Labour without 'major surgery' or reform, including more use of the private sector." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Health chiefs warn that Mr Streeting’s plan is not a ‘permanent fix’ to the NHS crisis
There's the rub. Same narrative used by the vermin Tories about the railways. #ToryCorruption#ToryCostOfGreed
The 2 tier health system is well underway. Private medical is a most valuable employee benefit but ordinary folk are signing up to companies like Beneden Health for basic health care including GP appointments. The NHS can no longer be relied upon. The Tories broke the training cycle. This is 1/2
I'm currently in hospital, waiting for surgery on two broken shoulders. The facilities seem fine to me, the staff are all great - there just needs to be more of them. It's taking 3 or 4 attempts to get anything done, because the staff are all trying to do 43 things at the same time Literally money
I think you'll find that poor Wes has only one song to sing.
That ship has already sailed
Every journo asks Rachel Reeves "Which taxes will go up?". Every journo should ask Streeting "Which surgery? Which reforms?" I suspect his reply will be on a par with Jenrick on "English identity". These are serious topics, which serious people engage with. Neither Jenrick or Streeting qualify.
www.thenational.scot/news/2425055... Streeting wrote in an article for The S*n that he would fight “the middle-class lefties” who have criticised his plans and push on with use of private health firms.
The NHS urgently needs a Health Secretary several orders of magnitude less arrogant than this Someone who doesn’t assume they are the cleverest person in the room Someone prepared to listen &, more importantly, to learn from what they hear My advice to him is look at the link in the next tweet.
Those I know on the NHS are deeply offended that they are being blamed for the failures of underfunding and the disasters as described in the Darzi report