🦇 Jennie Rigg 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)Dec 22, 2022

If I hear one more person wittering on about "efficiency savings" in the #NHS I'm going to scream. The NHS has been pared to the bone in the name of efficiency savings and it does not work because you can't predict exactly when or how people are going to need the service.

I don't want the NHS to be efficient. I want it to have the capacity to deal with whatever gets thrown at it. I WANT there to be empty beds, because that means there's nobody waiting for a bed. I WANT Doctors to spend a certain amount of their day twiddling their thumbs, because that means people aren't stuck waiting in pain and desperation.

Am i weird?

Show threadJudi Sutherland
@miss_s_b There are empty beds, because there are wards that have been closed and mothballed. There are inefficiencies - check out the money spent on PFI, check out the ‘internal market’. Ask what ‘NHS Property Services’ does, or how it controls what happens in hospitals in terms of money rather than clinical need.
Dec 23, 2022 at 9:35pmWeb
Show thread🦇 Jennie Rigg 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)Dec 23, 2022
@judisutherland yeah I live in Calderdale, you don't need to tell me about PFI, but that's not what tory ministers mean when they say "efficiency", is it?