NHS winter crisis looms

www.kingsfund.org.uk/press/press-releases/kings-fund-responds-letter-select-committees

www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/2017-make-or-break-year-forward-view

Well, what chance has the NHS if even you think like that, Daphne?
What are the Libdems doing about it?

Isthis the one Jane10 or is there a newer one?

www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/nhs-agenda-for-action

How many of you have written to your MPs about it?
How many of you have joined your local KONP to keep our NHS public?
How many of you have checked on your local STP and found out which A&Es are up for closure in the next reorganisation that can be seen from space?

Where is Jeremy Hunt?

No, they won't take any notice, because the Conservatives will walk an election. Corbyn & Co need to realise that they won't win just by being right (or righteous). They need to up their political game fast.

To be fair to him, Corbyn has been active on Twitter today signposting followers to Ashworth's BBC and LBC interviews. If Corbyn has indeed been shouting it from the rooftops, he needs to replace his PR team, because they're not doing a good job. I walked past a Daily Mail in the news stands this morning and the headline was that the so-called winter crisis is 'spin'. The DM has over two million readers, compared with a few hundred thousand Labour Party members. Labour needs to get its message through to the majority. At the moment it isn't.

www.hospitaldr.co.uk/blogs/our-news/select-committee-chairs-urge-pm-launch-review-health-social-care-funding

Clive Betts, Labour MP.
Meg Hillier, Labour MP.
Sarah Wollaston, Tory MP.

Will May take any notice? Will she heck.
Far too interested in Brexit to notice what's happening to health and social care.

For god's sake, another excuse to get at Corbyn!
The Labour party and Corbyn have been shouting it from the rooftops for ages.
Nobody bloody well listens.

I'm waiting for the outburst, too, Anya. Did anybody see the midday BBC News? Apparently Jon Ashworth was talking about the crisis. He's only been Shadow Health Secretary since October, so I guess he's till finding his feet in that role, although he's been around for a while.

There was a very detailed analysis of why the NHS is struggling and included some suggestions. I read it on Twitter but don't know how to copy it to here. I think the Kings Fund did it but I might be wrong.
Bottom line -increasing population, increasing percentage of elderly people, need to develop other forms of effective care. Privatisation not mentioned.

Too true Anya. How much worse do things have to get? The NHS is rapidly being dismantled and replaced by profit making companies, the elderly are being neglected, food banks in every town, many unable to afford a place to live. What a divided dysfunctional society we have become, and yet people apparently ok with this as Tory party 17% ahead in polls.

Labour needs to get off its collective backside and start shouting about the state of the NHS. If the Blessèd Jeremy can't be arsed then now's the time for someone else to show some leadership FFS.

Oh dj I saw this, this morning it is devastating. What is Hunt doing. Brexit seems to be taking up everyone's energies and eyes are definitely off balls.

I just can't believe that this government is allowing this to happen in our affluent country, and why everyone isn't out on the streets protesting, but I suppose until you are personally affected it doesn't hit home. God help us if there is a flu epidemic. Shaming indeed.

For heavens sake, is this what the Red Cross is for?

www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/commissioning/commissioning-topics/emergency-admissions/red-cross-deployed-to-cope-with-nhs-humanitarian-crisis/20033586.article

The government should be ashamed of this.

twitter.com/hashtag/DoHballs?src=hash

A shame it's behind a paywall in the BMJ. I'd like to read it all.

www.thecanary.co/2017/01/04/theresa-may-just-savaged-nhs-tory-health-chair/

www.welfareweekly.com/nhs-staff-morale-hits-rock-bottom-as-confidence-in-jeremy-hunt-plummets/

www.gov.uk/government/people/deborah-kobewka

I know all that, Jalima, but it doesn't tell you who is on the governance board. I can only find one name, and that does not make a board.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2017/01/02/there-would-have-been-no-social-care-crisis-if-half-of-all-qe-had-been-given-to-the-local-and-devolved-governments-of-the-uk/

This can solve the NHS and social care crisis, if there is the will to do so.

is it a Quango?

I thought there was going to be a bonfire of Quangos

Healthcare UK is a joint initiative of the Department of Health (DH), UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and NHS England.
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/healthcare-uk/about

There is a Governance Board

Can oyu tell me who governs Healthcare UK? As far as I can see there is only one director. Can't find out any more information.

Exactly, daphne. There are far too many bodies involved in the NHS nowadays. Use of the NHS logo in no way implies that the company is part of the NHS. Any company can buy the right to use the logo.
Completely wrong in my opinion.

Have a Happy New Year.
Off to celebrate now, with my son.

I don't understand the point you're making, dj. Healthcare UK has been set up as a separate body with its own governance. It is accountable to the DIT and DH, but not part of either, in the same way that outsourced healthcare providers often display NHS logos. The DH is not the same as the NHS either.