TB63 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:58 pm
The "well run NHS"..
A close friend of mine set up a company that looked at all the equipment they had on lease/hire, closely. On the basis that they would pay him 10% of the money they would save by letting him cancel redundant agreements.
In his first year, just looking at the JR in Oxford, he found machines that were still being rented, which had been superceded 5 times, and rental agreements for the following 4 pieces of kit, all being paid for still...
Wtf are the overpaid number crunchers being paid for?
He's now a millionaire, employs 25 staff, runs a company that leases machines to the NHS with a garuntee that when the kit is superceded, they don't pay for it anymore.
Why didn't the money grabbing twats see that one coming? And, the cunts have had no come back to answer for their fuck ups whatsoever. What he did find, the companies supplying NHS hiked prices and allegedly paid handsome backhanders to the ones that signed rental agreements, annually, knowing the kit was not just obsolete, but no longer on site...
Woe there, if I can take your first premise 'The "well run NHS"..'
No one has said that. I'm not going to put words into anyone else's mouth so excuse me if this sounds "all about me", this is all just my opinion. The NHS is not well run, it is up against it at every turn, and it's mainly down to funding, or more accurately mis-management and underfunding.
As a fundamental, the NHS is where the money trail ends, there is no recycling, there should not be a profit to be made, money made elsewhere should be invested in to the service so that people are cared for, be it broken leg or broken mind.
The "profit" is making people well again, that's it, nothing else, that is what we buy with the money.
The benefit to society as a whole is that no one need worry about health care bills, no one needs to skip surgery or treatment because they don't bring in enough money to pay for it, or take a loan or miss surgery because of a couple of missed payments of an insurance policy due to a financial emergency elsewhere. No one has to remortgage their home to pay for treatment.
The knock on is that people go to school, go to further training, go to work all in the knowledge that they will be healed if and when they need it. The State pays for this, it pays for education of workers in the public and private sector, it pays for transport infrastructure, it pays for security via police force and military etc The state ensures private enterprise is protected via these agencies and with legislation regarding copyright, international trade agreements etc It makes sure the food we eat is safe, it makes sure we have recourse when we are stolen form or duped, it makes sure we have representation via the ballot box, though that is a work in progress
In short, the private sector is wholly underwritten by the taxpayer, the public sector.
The idiocy you point out in your post is not down to failures of clinicians or the ideology of the free-at-point-of-contact health care, that is down to a management that has probably been stretched to way beyond breaking point for many many years.
I've had a beer.