Grandad1943. You may know this others may not but our nhs is the result of the Beveridge Report of 1942 initiated by a coalition government of Conservative and Labour. It was written by a Liberal and it was to change the way we looked at social care and general standards of life post war. Labour came to power in 1945 and they took forward the intent of that report. Aneurin Bevan just did the job he was given, the man was no saint. It was going to happen.
That’s why we have the NHS it was never a Labour only project they just constantly claim that.
The NHS is a terrific institution that is run badly by top tier management with a confused overall plan of how it should work.
It needs to be run on a business plan approach not for profit but for the ability to sustain itself. As I understand it, it is run by a lot of people who have no idea of how to run anything. Key is care of the nations unwell to deliver that they need nurses, doctors, pharmacists, cleaners, cooks, secretaries, porters and many more job requirements. It’s a big business and it needs to be run as such. It’s buying power as a whole should be driving the price it pays for all its supplies and services.
If it was in a box I would shake it all up and scrape out the dead weight that fell to the bottom and re organise it toe to top because you have to start with the care required and then how to achieve it.
No doubt many reading this would totally agree some might not, those who feel that The NHS is too ‘special’ to mess with but it needs to be done and it’s the government that needs to fix it we cannot. It is a long term plan that’s needed and it’s going to take someone with some guts but we have good business leaders in this Country so let’s get one of those in charge.
One thing I do know anyone with the skill to do this will not be a Trotskyist. Labour is not made up wholly of them but sadly the leadership is and that’s it’s problem. People who spend their careers sh Tungsten from the back of the room, criticising constantly, never “doing” anything, causing anarchy over achievement, only know how to tear things down not how to build them up and are not capable of fixing anything let alone the NHS.
Is it me or am I getting mixed messages