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As the NHS is running out of beds and places for graves in Cemeteries the answer is simple. 2 to a bed and 2 to a coffin. That's a soundbite that wins elections.
Don't believe a word I say. I'm only kidding. Or am I?
Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 22:03 - Jan 9 by Nthsuffolkblue
Did you mis-type the figure? That is per week I trust. Even so, it is only just over half of the overdue £350 million per week.
Sorry, I should have made it clearer. The £200 million I mentioned was to purchase care beds in the private sector to relieve bed-blocking. But I think I heard it said that care providers will be able to charge double what local authorities pay, so there are clearly some profits to be made.
As it turns out, I think the figure is £250 million and the money is also be used to make improvements to hospitals with a view lessening the need for the use of corridors. But MPs yesterday were asking how quickly the money will actually arrive, and were saying unless it arrives in the next 7-10 days, it will make little difference.
Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 21:58 - Jan 9 by Oldsmoker
As the NHS is running out of beds and places for graves in Cemeteries the answer is simple. 2 to a bed and 2 to a coffin. That's a soundbite that wins elections.
Yes, they could perhaps run a campaign along the line of the "share a bath" campaign during the drought of mid-70s.
And going back to my OP, perhaps the campaign slogan could be.
"An early grave, you know it makes sense."
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Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 08:49 - Jan 10 with 1553 views
Productivity improvements can be lumped in with things like "efficiency savings" which are ways of cutting funding without whilst being able to say you weren't cutting anything important.
Inevitably there isn't that much you can improve or save and you just end up making cuts that affect the front line anyway.
See also - why do we have this IT guy? Everything is always working anyway!
Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 21:25 - Jan 9 by factual_blue
'Productivity' and 'efficiency' are words tories throw around. They clearly understand neither.
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Of course they do. They know all there is to know about the syphoning of public money productively and efficiently away from wasteful public services and into their private pockets.
They'll keep doing this productively and efficiently until society collapses around their private estates and then they'll discover that what they've piled up has absolutely no productive or efficient way of protecting their privates from the public.
Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 20:51 - Jan 9 by DJR
There'll clearly be some off-shored/private equity-owned care home groups champing at the bit for a large chunk of the £200 million just announced.
I think you mean a pub landlord who knows an MP, or someone from the Lords who has been recommended by a minister (Gove)
No more evidence needed of the thought that there are two sorts of MPs - those who enter Parliament to help others, and those who do so to help themselves (Tories)
There’s a definite closing of the ranks in our politics. No doubt because everyone and his dog can see how screwed the UK looks like being. At least without a change to the neoliberal and status quo-leaning path that’s been decided for us.
Pronouns: He/Him
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Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 12:03 - Jan 10 with 1412 views
Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 11:45 - Jan 10 by HARRY10
I think you mean a pub landlord who knows an MP, or someone from the Lords who has been recommended by a minister (Gove)
No more evidence needed of the thought that there are two sorts of MPs - those who enter Parliament to help others, and those who do so to help themselves (Tories)
Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 09:18 - Jan 10 by NthQldITFC
Of course they do. They know all there is to know about the syphoning of public money productively and efficiently away from wasteful public services and into their private pockets.
They'll keep doing this productively and efficiently until society collapses around their private estates and then they'll discover that what they've piled up has absolutely no productive or efficient way of protecting their privates from the public.
The NHS has had years of having to find efficiencies so all the big gains have been made and there's little left to cut. There is always room for continual improvement but this isn't going to bridge the funding gap.
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Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 12:18 - Jan 10 with 1365 views
Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 12:04 - Jan 10 by jontysnut
The NHS has had years of having to find efficiencies so all the big gains have been made and there's little left to cut. There is always room for continual improvement but this isn't going to bridge the funding gap.
Presumably a higher proportion of NHS funding could have been spent on health, but for the various market reforms, and reorganisations, of the last 30 years. If nothing else, it would have saved the cost of changing the name plates on an NHS building near me when, say, Clinical Commissioning Groups came into existence.
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Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 12:31 - Jan 10 with 1357 views
Does anyone imagine that money is given with nothing expected in return. That Tory MPs have some special skill, other than having access to/influence over government ?
There should be no reason (other than certain medical qualifications) for MPs to have second jobs. And when caught deliberately flaunting the system repeatedly (as above) have them thrown out. How on earth can it be right having someone repeatedly in breach of the rules, being allowed to act as a lawmaker ?
Because voters only become excited about such matters when they are told to. And that is usually avoided by offering them some distraction that is usually fairly vacuous ie ginger boy was thwown woughly to the floor by his brother, Biggus Willus.
We get what others deserve
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Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 14:18 - Jan 11 with 1250 views
Does anyone imagine that money is given with nothing expected in return. That Tory MPs have some special skill, other than having access to/influence over government ?
There should be no reason (other than certain medical qualifications) for MPs to have second jobs. And when caught deliberately flaunting the system repeatedly (as above) have them thrown out. How on earth can it be right having someone repeatedly in breach of the rules, being allowed to act as a lawmaker ?
Because voters only become excited about such matters when they are told to. And that is usually avoided by offering them some distraction that is usually fairly vacuous ie ginger boy was thwown woughly to the floor by his brother, Biggus Willus.
We get what others deserve
This repulsive cretin is alread serving or has served a suspension for repeatedly taking 'bribes' - yet here he is affirming what most know about the Tory Party. It houses almost all the nutjobs in UK politics.
The chap this arzhole is associating with, is one James Delingpole who stated this summer
“EVERYTHING is an illusion, a construct of the Predator Class over generations of brainwashing. They faked: the Moon Landings, 9/11 […] Now please explain to me why these people, who are the embodiment of the purest evil "
A supposed learned brexiter, he was humiliated on the Andrew Neils late show.by having an obvious flaw in brexit thinking pointed out.
So what do you have to do to get thrown out of Parliament ? His views are obviously odious to almost all. However maybe they are the price we pay for 'free speech', though perhaps not views to be expressed by an MP.
Whereas he has been caught (repeatedly) with his hand in the till {i}he approached ministers and officials on behalf of a forestry company that had given him a donation, a visit to Ghana and the offer of an advisory contract.
Which was compounded by his claim the commissioner would accept a peerage from Johnson, and that this was dependent on her “arriving at the ‘right’ outcomes” when conducting parliamentary standards investigations " which amounted to an allegation of corruption ie he was only being investigated as the person leading the investigation had been promised a seat in the Lords.
He has avoided a recall by being suspended for only 5 days, not the 10 as required. That requirenent neds to change. Voters need to be allowed to decide if he is fit to serve them, even if the Tory party won't.
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Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 14:32 - Jan 11 with 1224 views
I always like to think of this in terms of the EADT head of photography terms.
The most productive and efficient way to run a fire service, is have exactly the same amount of fire engines and fire fighters as there are fires at any point in time, and then you can plan to have the correct amount of photographers to take action shots rather than use stock images.
So why oh why oh why, is it so difficult for someone to tell me where all the fires will be.
Look I know the flaw, sometimes animals will fall into ditches and things, but aside from that, I can’t see why the NHS can’t follow the same principle.
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Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 14:36 - Jan 11 with 1217 views
Productivity improvements in the NHS? on 14:18 - Jan 11 by HARRY10
This repulsive cretin is alread serving or has served a suspension for repeatedly taking 'bribes' - yet here he is affirming what most know about the Tory Party. It houses almost all the nutjobs in UK politics.
The chap this arzhole is associating with, is one James Delingpole who stated this summer
“EVERYTHING is an illusion, a construct of the Predator Class over generations of brainwashing. They faked: the Moon Landings, 9/11 […] Now please explain to me why these people, who are the embodiment of the purest evil "
A supposed learned brexiter, he was humiliated on the Andrew Neils late show.by having an obvious flaw in brexit thinking pointed out.
So what do you have to do to get thrown out of Parliament ? His views are obviously odious to almost all. However maybe they are the price we pay for 'free speech', though perhaps not views to be expressed by an MP.
Whereas he has been caught (repeatedly) with his hand in the till {i}he approached ministers and officials on behalf of a forestry company that had given him a donation, a visit to Ghana and the offer of an advisory contract.
Which was compounded by his claim the commissioner would accept a peerage from Johnson, and that this was dependent on her “arriving at the ‘right’ outcomes” when conducting parliamentary standards investigations " which amounted to an allegation of corruption ie he was only being investigated as the person leading the investigation had been promised a seat in the Lords.
He has avoided a recall by being suspended for only 5 days, not the 10 as required. That requirenent neds to change. Voters need to be allowed to decide if he is fit to serve them, even if the Tory party won't.
That's a great clip of Delingpole, which should mean no one should trust anything his says.
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