Lunchtime #BBC news mobilised the #health editor of the #SundayTimes to discuss the #JuniorDoctors strike leading to loss of life...
I would hope that the BBC listeners would see behind this to the real fact that 12 years of #Tory defunding has been the real cause of loss of life, not the latterly attempt by junior doctors to force some better workforce planning (by paying hardworking doctors a reasonable wage)...
But this week they'll be a lot of this sort of nonsense from the beeb I'm sure!
@ChrisMayLA6
We might hope. The narrative has been that a further reorganisation will suffice.
If I were a young doctor I think I'd look at options outside the NHS.
But, in one sense that is also what the Tories want; the best & brightest to take jobs in private #healthcare, so by making it more attractive to wavering patients
@ChrisMayLA6
I doubt the long term decline in the NHS would be reversed by any political party.
It's occurring in step with the decline of our economy.
Was 2 $US to a pound when I was young.
Yes I would agree; anyone who has been attentive to the GDP/per capita data would have seen the decline in pretty stark terms over the last half century
aha, well there is a strange poetic justice in that I suppose; for some time the UK has scripted on triningin of medics & nurses and has instead drawn them in from poorer countries with reasonably function health services... now (as they say) the boot is on the other foot
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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