NHS waiting lists growing longer and longer has bedevilled politicians ever since the Covid years. The Conservatives couldn’t shake it off and now the Labour government is dogged with it. It seems like everything they try is doomed to fail. The Conservatives outsourced a host of services to the private sector, but that only increased demand.
Junior Doctors strikes then made the problems worse. The waiting lists grew to 7,000,000 plus! The Labour government then gave them a bung- a zillion% pay rise. They went back to work but it made little difference. The Labour party’s ratings in opinion polls continued to nose dive.
Time for something different.
The Last Laugh Looney Party had a radical solution to get the NHS waiting list down in a day! Walk-in centres.
No need for an appointment just go to your nearest new NHS facility based in an empty shop on your empty high street. There you will be able to see one of the richly rewarded Junior Doctors or maybe a Junior Doctors Assistant. The Assistants must have completed at least a weeks training on how to put on a white coat. They will be able to give you an aspirin, which should help your condition and will constitute the completion of your medical consultation. Waiting lists growing longer will fall overnight!
If by any chance the aspirin doesn’t work for your condition, you can begin the process all over again. You can make another appointment with your GP. It currently only takes about 6 weeks to see you GP and they can refer you to an NHS consultant. Appointments with consultants take less than 6 months to arrange, if you are classed as an emergency. It’s 12 months if you are not.
Of course if these delays frustrate you, you can always go to one of the newly created Walk-in Centres🤡
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OH My dear??? what is coming before us, a government of reseach questionaires? Who has ‘CASH’ ? for instance are the alledged medical practioners setting up and then operating in private clinics? Is the pay threashold in the NHS Too Low? But there again are or is the waiting lists within the nHS full of customers from little boats people- the elderly population, There again Have we all got it wrong including the goverment of the day?
Are we as an older generation having paid our taxes and stamp duties, demanding too much from the system? Has the system nHS served us so well up to now that we live in ;rude’ health and elderly and now cannot support our selves in our own dwellings, do we need more NHS ‘CARE HOMES’ rather thn hospital beds? Its maybe a problem for the immediate future and the distant future, as our NHS service provivde us with good health!!!!
OUr older and younger generation need to review carefully what ”OUR DEMANDS” will be from a universal Health service????
Maybe not NHS ‘Care homes; but there again ‘CARE HOMES for the elderly run and organised by cenral governemnt, managed locally by the ‘LOCAL COUNCIL’
IT may take some thinking but based upon care and needy, maybe a voluntary contribution is deducted if one on pension is in a tax group that can afford, that Local Tax band, which we have at present for house ownners?? DEEP Thinking something to benifit all the ;;old timers’ in a local society? How about That then!!! Please not BAH! Humbug!!