RE: General Election12 Jun 2024 16:19
Toogood2die,
"investing directly in recruitment and retention of NHS staff and investing directly in NHS services and not outsourcing!"
You should do some research because you clearly have NO idea how the NHS operates and has been operating since it's inception 76 years ago!!!
Gullible people like you believe the NHS is run purely by NHS salaried staff!!!!
The Labour govn created the NHS, allowing for doctors etc to work without being directly employed by the NHS. There are thousands of GPs, Nurses, paramedics etc working as self-employed/ltd companies/agency.
Ask your GP if he is salaried directly by the NHS. There's a good chance he/she will be employed by the GP Surgery and that GP Surgery is running as a business.
Whether the next party in power is Labour or Tory doesn't really impact the NHS use of private companies. The NHS model is widely misunderstood, mainly because the public believes that all GPs, nurses, hospitals staff are salaried directly by the NHS, which is not the case.
Labour created the NHS over 75years. Private companies have been part of the NHS since it's inception. Why would Labour exclude private companies when they created the NHS with them as part of it?
There are thousands of GPs who work as independents and are not directly salaried by the NHS. Ask your GP if they are directly salaried by the NHS and the chances are they are not. As well as GPs, there are thousands of locums, agency nurses, cleaners, caterers, paramedics as well as IT system providers and some local CCGs.
If you remove all private providers then the NHS will collapse. Those independent GPs, agency nurses, locum doctors etc will become entitled to NHS pension which would cripple the country.
This is a few years old but comments on the GPs who work as independents.
"It's time that NHS general practitioners became NHS employees to end the anomaly that left GPs and their staff independently employed when the NHS was created in 1948."
"However, salaried GPs are rarely employed by the NHS; generally, they are employed by other GPs or commercial companies."
https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i5064
Number locums..17,500
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locum
Number GPs.. 33000
https://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-on-the-nhs
Therefore, whoever is in as next government would have little or no impact on the NHS model to use private companies.
The NHS is used as a political football and successive parties who wish to gain power try and win gullible people's minds, like yours, by quoting they will 'save the NHS'.
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