RE: Brexit Brilliance29 Nov 2022 15:23
Theo
The main problem is having an idea as to what is the Uk going to look like in say 5 yrs time.
For the NHS this is particularly challenging. Ageing population, growing population advances in medical technology, staffing recruitment/ retention, litigation costs, new builds etc...overall cost pressures.
The armed forces can basically dovetail into what NATO deems necessary. We have seen the direction of travel with weapons in this conflict and the problems.. Too many types of the same kit for start. ( training , spares, lack of interchangeability of munitions etc.
No one can predict that far ahead where any country will likely be sitting. At the beginning of 2020 you could have said the next five years may have been a bit choppy due to Brexit but interest rates would be roughly the same and there should be improvements in certain areas. But then Covid threw a curve ball, buggers things up but that is life. Ukraine throws another curve ball in which some might have been seen but not by everyone and that just screwed everyone in the UK and Europe up totally. So what is third curve ball looming, China? Where will that put everyone then?
NHS is a mess as we all know. It basically wants dismantling from what it is now and rebuilding. Perhaps it needs to get back to grass roots as being a health system and not for procedures and treatments that are not life changing. If people wish to have these treatments then they should pay to have them privately. How much admin do we need in the NHS, there has to be a layer at least of admin that can be stripped out now. IT should help but the right platforms are not there to make it work smoothly, it is all clunky and inefficient. As to staff I have always believed that we should train people here in the UK but I seem to remember that you need a degree to become a nurse, I will happily stand to be corrected if this is wrong. We have many young people that will shine in nursing but we put barriers up for them. Vocational training to me is the way forward starting as an apprentice and developing from this point. The answer is not simply to keep throwing money at it. All these people that continue to spout the £350M needed due to Brexit do not understand bad management and corruption in the NHS is not just by this Government but the previous one as well.
The armed forces is a tough one, we haven’t really been in a real escalating war since 1939. In war you see large step changes of innovation and development as most of us should know about. We can see in the past we went from horse to mechanised vehicles to large battleships to planes to rockets and ended up with atomic weapons. All large step change improvements. Now the way forward seems to be multi role drones. What is next? Have we as a country invested in drones , probably not to the level that we should have, but then if life is cosy and you don’t see what is around the corner why should you.
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