NHS Reforms - what they mean for you

NHS reforms: Dr Ron Singer, retired GP from Edmonton, North London explains in simple language what the government's health reforms mean for patients and NHS staff. With over 30 years experience working in the NHS, Ron Singer speaks on behalf of many doctors who have serious concerns over the proposed privatisation of the NHS. Ron Singer leads the Medical Practitioners' Union, a professional section of Unite the Union and he sits on the general practice committee of the BMA.

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[m1trekker]

@TheNavigateur You must realise that tax needs to be raised to pay for health, education, welfare, etc. It must be sustainable (yes, no borrowing) Currently it is not and has not been for a long time. Unless this is corrected it will only lead to dramatic changes rather than gradual ones. I believe that the NHS needs stability, for far too long it has been a political football. Unfortunately in order to make it sustainable I believe its annual budget should be cut.

[TheNavigateur]

@m1trekker You're simply saying government shouldn't borrow and I broadly agree as they don't have to. But what principles would you use to set tax rates (the means)? Let me give you mine - the amount needed to create justice. What other methodology could possibly be justified? The only other way is let corruptors decide which has been happening for decades under your nose and you've been taking it lying down this whole time, like far too many in the UK. Perhaps you should wake up.

[m1trekker]

@TheNavigateur No I don't agree with that. I think the budget should be fixed and the NHS should work within that budget. It is the same in all aspects of life, When I buy a car I set myself a budget and buy the car I can afford. If it doesn't have air con or ABS so be it - cut your cloth according to your means.

[TheNavigateur]

What this GP Ron Singer misses out is these reforms were written by global corruption firm McKinsey so they could siphon off millions more in public money on top of what they already have - this reform would multiply it. It's sabotage, fraud and theft. The tories are simply the salesmen - letting global political corruptors, after public money, write the laws of the United Kingdom - and thus selling the NHS, just for some quid in return. Now that's cheap. They have no values. So easy to buy.

[TheNavigateur]

@m1trekker Great. So if after weeding out all the inefficiencies the NHS still doesn't meet your goals, you agree that more needs to be spent to get the personnel to be able to execute that, yes? So really, you haven't done any calculations at all, just letting the tories be your voice - the same people that are siphoning off millions in NHS money to global corruption firm McKinsey? The tories see equal opportunity itself as "inefficiency" as it doesn't make them personally richer.

[m1trekker]

@TheNavigateur Actually I strongly oppose the tory reform plans and the health bill. However, that doesn't stop me from thinking that too much is spent on the NHS and it needs to do more with less money. The country is 1 trillion in debt and we need to spend money in a sustainable way, a way that preserves the principle of treatment based upon clinical need, free for all at the point of delivery, in other words the core NHS principles weeding out the inefficiencies.

[TheNavigateur]

@m1trekker Don't you get it? The tories want to destroy the United Kingdom as long as it benefits their super-rich donors and/or potential donors. They're cheap, that's all.

[m1trekker]

@LCStreetPhotographer We all have to cut our cloth according to our means. All of us balance budgets in relation to shopping, clothes, heating, housing. All of these are essential but the average Briton still has to balance spending on them. So does the government in relation to the NHS. 120 billion is way to high, its 20% of overall spending, way too high. Housing, welfare and education are more important.

[LCStreetPhotographer]

@Stephanavich What a ridiculous comment. Does it matter where the point comes from as long as its correctly made? If you want an unbias source of info, with regards to this, why dont you look at a very right wing Conservative paper, the Daily Mail...even THEY are dead against this. WHY DONT YOU toddle along and have a good read up on what Lansley and McKinsey's (among many) have in store for the NHS. You blinkered heartless buffoon. The BMA among others have slammed this bill.

[LCStreetPhotographer]

@m1trekker Ridiculous comment. The NHS is a life saving service and therefore essential. Yes housing and education are essential too. Either way this current CONservative government is destroying each in equal measure.