NHS Reform?

[Midnight_Fairy]

Opinions?

 

[Laura2919]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12200810

GP's are gonna have more control on budgets meaning some hospitals may have to close.
Not really good is it

 

[kirmal12]

Something needed to change but doing it this way, time will tell. No government has really got it right so will this one? who knows!!

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

So wrong!!

 

[kirmal12]

So wrong!!

What's "so wrong"?

 

[Serene123]

IMO some hospitals should be shut. MK for example. Horrid hospital.

Time will tell!

 

[Laura2919]

I suppose there are some really poor hospitals out there. We have about 4 in close distance to us but they are all full up whenever I need to go there.

 

[Nibblenic]

I think when you are looking at hospitals closing it will be more like really small ones that you barely know are there. Like theres one down the road for me and I have no idea what its for. Or why you would go there.

Im not sure it will ever work anywhere near perfectly. But I do agree with taking the huge amounts of burocracy (sp) out ofthe system.

 

[buttonnose82]

you think some hospitals are bad now, wait until they have their budget's cut further, I do think that maybe some kind of semi private set up is the way too go like car insurance, you have an accident you have too pay an excess, same with health care maybe. I know not everyone is going too like it but it seems too work in many other countrys

 

[tallybee]

Reform is a euphemism for devastating cuts, as per usual with the Tories. Unfortunately too many people can't or won't remember the Thatcher years!

 

[indy and lara]

I would like my GP practice to continue managing their own health centre and keeping their training up to date. I do not want time taken from my GPs' working hours managing hospital budgets. I would imagine that they do not want to do that either.

Many of the smaller hospitals here closed quite a lot of years ago now but I am not sure that has been a move for the better. There were many specialist clinics which have now been absorbed into other hospitals.

Sadly I agree that this is likely to result in more reductions and cuts in services.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8135265.Hythe_Hospital_closure_fears/

This is a small hosp near me, they already closed the birthing unit where babies in the wood was filmed

 

[PeanutBean]

I think it is going to be a disaster and is going to take us a considerable distance down the road of privatisation of the health service. I've yet to meet anyone in the medical profession who thinks it will be a good thing (I know nurses, doctors, MWs, HVs....). The professional bodies and even the Health Select Committee are all warning against it. The GPs don't even want it.

If there is to be reform I'd like to see more centralisation rather than devolution as it would contribute to ending the postcode lottery in healthcare. This is absolutely going ot make it worse. It already is.

 

[littlepne]

I agree that "reform" probably means "cuts" and also they'll have to employ people (on nice big salaries!) to decide how they're going to make these cuts and then employ people to implement them... more bureaucracy and even less money in the areas that need it most.