To wish ATOS would leave me alone

How do you know I/we haven't already?

You know nothing about me or my family durhamjen. You're just making assumptions again.

This is actually a proper political thread.
Legal aid is important to some people. Hopefully you or your family will not need it, ever.

Sigh...

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Some should get legal aid, but not many.
Just putting this on here because Ana told me to.

Does anyone get legal aid these days….

And you will not get legal aid if they get it wrong.

https://blogs.citizensadvice.org.uk/blog/mps-hear-the-impact-of-legal-aid-reforms-on-society-and-citizens-advice/

Anyone on DLA who has to be moved to PIP should be worried about this.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/2954-untrained-staff-being-drafted-in-for-pip-decision-making

This is what the NHA thinks of Simon Stevens latest 5 year plan.

nhap.org/reaction-to-simon-stevens-nhs-report-unrealistic-and-will-fall-on-deaf-ears/

It's strange that he says that the NHS can save £22 billion while at the same time saying there is an £8 billion gap to be filled.
Tonight Norman Lamb says that the NHS needs another £1.5 billion soon otherwise it will fall apart, but Osborne says he's given it more money.

Nobody knows the full story about NHS finances. Surely someone should be able to tell us the truth.

A bill is going through Parliament at the moment to make the Secretary of State more responsible for the NHS. It will also alter the responsibilities of Monitor, and remove the NHS from the TTIP.
It would be good if all MPs supported it. The second reading is on 21st November.

Simon Stevens is in charge of NHS England. That is not the NHS as a whole. There are lots of other groups which oversee NHS England, such as Monitor and the CQC, with different people in charge of them.
All the people in charge of different aspects of the NHS seem to have been brought in from private companies, not from the NHS itself.

I have watched quite a few interviews with Simon Stevens and he would appear at first glance to be a decent kind of person.

I like the way he has tried to not allow partisan politics and spin to cloud his decision making, or so it would seem thus far. There is no room for that if he is to be taken seriously.

I wish him well, he sure will need it.

It looks as though it is Simon Stevens.

www.england.nhs.uk/tag/simon-stevens/

This is the problem with the NHS. Nobody knows who is in charge, and nobody actually wants to be in charge.

www.politics.co.uk/news/2014/11/10/it-s-official-no-one-knows-who-is-in-charge-of-the-nhs

I couldn't get through to these Americans either. Mind you they were all wealthy lawyers. The ladies diamonds made my pearls log cheap. Rings with stones that must have been at least half the size of a normal marble with earrings and bracelets etc. they were delightful people though. Very witty and charming but very shortsighted about Obamacare.

I spent a week in USA when Fox was rubbishing Obamacare. Time and again, the attack was against our 'socialised medicine'. I really wanted to go out on the street and show them the scars on my hip and shoulder and ask everyone if they could have got these replacements free of charge. Fortunately I didn't or I'd probably have been arrested.

Who are you referring to, jingle?
It's not like you to be vague.
You usually come out and 'tell it like it is'.

There doesnt seem to be any country in the world that comes that close to ours as regards healthcare of allits citizens.

Just had a quick read of this thread. Fine, until I got to Saturday 8th.

Why is it always the same people on here who have to immediately jump on anyone they feel may have made a point which they consider to be howible!?

Why bother?

That reminds me of the practice nurse telling me I could do with losing about 5lbs while she stuffing her rather fat face with crisps, [I kid you not]

Not wishing to be horrible, but there was a news item on the telly last night about the epidemic of obesity facing this country. But the woman who was chairperson of the group being interwiewed [can't remember it's name] looked very overweight .

American television is just one advert after another for different kinds of medication, telling the viewer to ask their doctor for it [there are then about 5 minutes of disclaimers] .

There was an article in one of the newspapers, Indie I think, from an American doctor who had believed all the misinformation put about in the US about the NHS at the time that ObamaCare was going through.

She came to the UK on holiday and one of her children (I think) had an emergency hospital admission. Her article was a paean of praise for the NHS, because she was overwhelmed by the speed and efficiency with which her child was treated and received the necessary specialist treatment without question of money and she compared what happened here with the much poorer service she would have got in the US.

papaoscar

I have friends in various countries who can't afford medical treatment even though they desperately need it. It's appalling and so hard to see them suffer just because they're too poor to pay.

When I've spoken to Americans they think the the nhs is abominable and that usa health care wonderful. They deny that anyone in the us of a can't afford healthcare and were dead against Obama.
I sometimes worry about about Yankee friends