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Is that straight from the press release ? 😀bringing new technology and expertise of driving process efficiency
just5minutes - MemberThe UK continues to have amongst the worst cancer survival rates in Europe...
largely due to late diagnosis, which is in no small part down to our national tendency to ignore symptoms.
just5minutes any particular ideas why we have the worse cancer survival rates in Europe (by a very marginal amount) is it because our NHS is shit or is it because our population are less well paid , or because the French and Italians have better diets or the Germans are more health concious or because of our massive drinking culture.
"Driving process efficiency" we have that in my world with GOAMY and G4S it means cutting pay alienating staff and inventing reasons why failure is some other organisations fault.
means failure anyway, doesn't it ?G4S
The contract didn't go to a "private firm". It's a consortium
Where did you get that from?
No mention of a consortium on the [url= http://www.alliancemedical.co.uk/who-we-are/our-story ]Alliance Medical website[/url] which proudly says it is [i]"Europe's leading independent provider of medical imaging services.... uniting technical excellence and exceptional service in a business model that delivers outstanding value for money"[/i]
Alliance Medical seem to be bringing new technology
They'll be using the SAME SCANNER that the NHS would use, the "[url= http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/NHS-fight-medical-scanning-outsourcing-decision/story-25850849-detail/story.html ]£3 million PET/CT scanner was installed a year ago at the Royal Stoke University Hospital thanks to a grant, a bequest and £250,000 from a fund-raising appeal.[/url]"
Incidentally, Malcolm Ri****d gets £60,000 pa for his position as a non-Executive Director at Alliance Medical, which [url= http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Ri****d-questions-North-Staffordhire-scanning/story-26083127-detail/story.html ]apparently involves going to ten meetings a year[/url]. I wonder why an ex-defence minister is worth so much to them? 😯
he UK continues to have amongst the worst cancer survival rates in Europe so maintaining the current status quo clearly hasn't worked.
Yup ruining the moral of Jr docs, spreading lies about them in the media, cutting their pay and getting rid of their pay increments whilst carrying out research and specialist training in cancer is obviously going to make things better 😳
Whatever the government has been doing recently they've been making a bad situation worse
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As for ri****d? After quitting after his cash for access revelations its obvious he was bent, and Jeremy Hunt refused to reveal whether he'd been involved in awarding the alliance cancer contract, even 5mins can't be gullible enough to believe that it wasnt dodgy 🙄
[quote=codybrennan spake unto the masses, saying]".... seem to be bringing new technology and expertise of driving process efficiency to the party".
Ex-oncology nurse here. What are these, can you elaborate?
In short, they believe in breaking down the historic boundaries and silos that get in the way of truly progressive and innovative community-based patient care. Forging collaborative partnerships both inside and outside the public sector is a natural and essential extension of this.
Or I could have just cut and pasted that BS from their website. You guess which 🙂
They're so convincing as the language they use is so accessible. You know you can trust people when they declare their commitment with such passion and simple clarity
In short, they believe in breaking down the [s]historic boundaries [/s]NHS and [s]silos[/s]social care that get in the way of [s]truly progressive[/s]neo-liberal ideology and [s]innovative community-based patient care[/s]Jobs for the boys. Forging collaborative partnerships [s]both inside and[/s] outside the public sector is a natural and essential extension of this.
:-)See I re-wrote it for them stripping out the BS.
Kimbers - there's a pretty good explanation for the CRUK trend above which is that there has been a very substantial increase in the number of patients being referred for diagnosis in Secondary Care.
This "front loading" and long lead time in increasing diagnostic capacity (Machines and skilled people to use them) leads to the %age of patients starting treatment going down i.e. more patients diagnosed but same number of staff available for helping patients to commence treatment.
Between 2010 and 2014 the number of patients referred for an urgent cancer diagnosis increased by 53% to 1.5m. The significant increase in the number of urgent referrals also has the effect of leading to small delays in first treatments for patients who have smaller / less aggressive cancers where the risk factors of starting treatment later are lower.
more patients diagnosed but same number of staff available for helping patients to commence treatment.
And the government driving Jr doctors to leave the country helps how?
I can only see the effect it is having on the Jr docs doing cancer research in my lab and 2 of the 5 that finish their PhDs are leaving the NHS, directly because of the government forcing this contract through (loosing the pay increments, despite still doing shifts in the hospital and the Ferdinando effect it will have on their family life) and the way they've tried to malign doctors and the NHS
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/120753
Petition
Parliament to sit on Saturdays which should be a "normal working day" for MPs.
Bout time MPs where on minimum wage the ****s.
Parliament to sit on Saturdays which should be a "normal working day" for MPs.
Many MPs are doing stuff in their constituencies at the weekend already.
Mefty, don't let common sense get in the way of some gesture politics and froth!!!
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Just think of me as one of these - taking off the excess.
The contract award was more than a year ago and Malcolm Ri****d is quite rightly no longer an MP.
Alliance Medical won the contract when Ri****d was an MP and a director of the company.
"Many MPs are doing stuff in their constituencies at the weekend already"
Made up fact of the day ? List 5 MPs who do surgerys on a weekend.
David Warburton, Byron Davies, Chloe Smith, Angela Smith and Khalid Mahmood to name a few, but they do more in the constituency than hold surgeries, my mother's old MP was out and about in the constituency attending functions all weekend.
So just googled all of them they top out at 4 hours a month on Saturdays maximum excluding Khalid Mahamood for whom there was no information. I actively avoid weekend work and I do more than that . Going to social functions does not count as work .
Continuing the spin on the consultants I see:
"When the Guardian interviewed Hunt last Friday he refused to rule out imposing a contract on consultants in England if they did not agree to work at weekends as part of their normal duties.."
The Consultant contracts allow them to opt-out of doing non-emergency elective work at weekends. Hunt has and will focus on this as a reason for "reform". The actual number of consultants that use that opt-out is tiny ([url= http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/1%2525_of_consultants_have_opted_out_of_elective_weekend_working ]less than 1%[/url]), but that won't be mentioned and the opt-out will no doubt be portrayed as a snidey loophole used by the workshy rather than an option built into their contract.
I think the Guardian stated that Hunt ford not do Saturday surgeries
I dont think its froth to mock our leaders for not doing what they expect others to do.....seems plenty opt out perhaps we should impose a contract on them?
Well I never - what have we here... gosh, it seems to echo what medics have being saying all along. 🙄
[url= http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/15/weekend-effect-on-hospital-deaths-not-proven-say-hunts-own-officials?CMP=share_btn_tw ]Jeremy Hunt’s key argument in his demands for a seven-day service in NHS hospitals has been called into question by his own department.[/url]
Surely a TV crossover between [i]Yes, Prime Minister[/i] and [i]Holby City[/i] cannot be far behind.
gosh, it seems to echo what medics have being saying all along.
His department must have been misled by the BMA or something...
my mother's old MP was out and about in the constituency attending functions all weekend.
Oh FFS!
His department must have been misled by the BMA
Maybe his [i]own[/i] department are the vanguard of a hard-left plot to destabilize and take down the Government*... gosh - this [i]is[/i] confusing... ooh, look, a photo of a junior doctor on holiday!
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t's all remember the [i]real[/i] threat... the reds under the HDU beds.[/url]
Be alert.
my mother's old MP was out and about in the constituency attending functions all weekend.Oh FFS!
Obviously you are underestimating the stressful nature of attending a WI tea AND a Scout's jumble sale in the same weekend!!
Obviously you are underestimating the stressful nature of attending a WI tea AND a Scout's jumble sale in the same weekend!!
The Horror, the horror
To be fair to MPs I think that while I over counted their hours for Saturday surgery to be on the safe side I forgot to add in the Friday surgery hours apparently Friday is viewed as a weekend day by many M.PS.
How times have changed, its almost as if politicians lie to the electorate to get into power.....
Many MPs are doing stuff in their constituencies at the weekend already.
I've a strong suspicion that our MP doesn't even know where his constituency is! Recently Connor McGinn stated that St. Helens was a major northern town. Clear evidence that he's never been there.
Cynicism aside, MPs have successively voted themselves several significant pay rises, they still have a [b][i][u]very[/u][/i][/b] generous and "flexible" expense arrangements, most do not do regular surgeries and recess from parliament (holidays) far exceeds any other profession.
Serving the people? Don't kid yourselves.
Serving the people? Don't kid yourselves.
Yes living in a Tory heartland I get to hear from landscape gardener friends just how they view the [s]voters[/s]great unwashed
I appreciate that I am in a small minority on here, but my experience is that most MPs put in a huge amount of hours, however it is one of the misfortunes of the role that as it is a relatively unstructured one so few understand what they do. To say their activities in constituencies are limited to holding surgeries is palpably nonsense. Essentially being a MP becomes a lifestyle where the line between when you are on "duty" and when you are not is blurred, you are constantly on parade, whilst this may not be particularly taxing - although being badgered would annoy me - it is not free time.
Different jobs have different stresses, MPs choose to do what they do so I have no tears for them, but attacking them for not putting in the hours is unfair and sadly the sort of shallow analysis typical of social media.
MPs have successively voted themselves several significant pay rises
The awards are made by an independent body now - as I say few people understand what the MP's job can entail.
My MP didn't even bother to campaign in last years general election and barely bothered to leave London as he knows that a dead horse with a blue rosette would win.
He is very busy with directorships though.
well said mefty
but my experience is that most MPs put in a huge amount of hours,
yep, mine does.
just not as an MP...
The awards are made by an independent body now.
Yes, of course they are. Totally independent.
but attacking them for not putting in the hours is unfair and sadly the sort of shallow analysis typical of social media
Thank you for your opinion, I'll try and think a little deeper in future. I would also counter your accusation of shallowness by suggesting that you; i) are an MP, ii) are a close friend of an MP, iii) are related to an MP, iv) have aspirations to be an MP. You certainly seem to have very high opinions of them. I'll concede that some probably do put in the hours and have had to work hard to get where they are. I would suggest that they are the minority.
To be fair, I do agree with mefty on this point, there are honest MPs, ministers and politicians that do work very hard.
I don't think it's the cushy number that some people think it is, for the good ones at least.
Even Jeremy Hunt barely has the time left in his day to see his children, manage his Hotcourses business, torture puppies or pull the wings off butterflies. 😉
He is very busy with directorships though.
Which companies?
I would also counter your accusation of shallowness by suggesting that you; i) are an MP, ii) are a close friend of an MP, iii) are related to an MP, iv) have aspirations to be an MP.
None of the above.
Two elections ago - Hunt was at my station at 06:18 campaigning early. TBH, I didn't know who he was and didn't really engage much as he represented the neighbouring constituency. Seemed very polite at the time 😉 The Lib Demmers were nice too.
Irrelevant anecdote I know, but I don't have twitter of FB 😀
On the day he imposed a morale-busting contract on junior doctors, the health secretary also announced... an urgent inquiry into the state of doctor's morale. Beyond satire?
A leap into the future- The eight key reasons for junior doctor’s low morale
1.One of the key drivers of low doctor morale is the way that the militants have stopped them from not being able to see how right Jeremy Hunt is all the time. To have their pay capped and to work dangerous long hours all seems so sensible until the 98% of militants come along and twist things with their socialist spells. Something urgently needs to be done about this.
2.Low morale is also directly related to being public servants. Junior doctors are desperate to work for private companies who deliver poorer fragmented care and where poor people have no access to comprehensive health coverage. It makes them so sad that payday loan companies aren't able make fortunes out of vulnerable people.
3. One of the big drivers of low doctor morale was the way that the academic communities insist upon people being careful about the conclusions drawn from uncertain research findings. More than one junior doctor has in the past had to be talked down from a ledge mumbling about “why can’t people just say what they like about uncertain research findings”.
4. When they while away the hours playing ‘throw the paper ball in the bin’ to relieve the tedium of underwork, some junior doctors have reported feeling really low about missing the bin. Longer hours for less pay would be an obvious solution for this.
5.More work for less money would also put pay to one of the most disturbing findings - the gang culture that has emerged among junior doctors in recent years, essentially out of boredom. This simply has to stop. In one hospital junior doctors were mugging patients with flick knives. When caught, one wailed “My morale is just so low due to boredom”.
6.On a related issue, junior doctors themselves feel very strongly about having too much money. Long before this recent crisis erupted demonstrations were found around the country outside hospitals. It was not uncommon to hear the chant "What do we want? To have our pay cut and hours extended? When do we want it? Whenever, we're free most days due to underwork."
7.Perhaps one of the key drivers of low junior doctor morale was not being given the chance to make a fatal prescription error due to overwhelming fatigue. Most junior doctors will tell you that falling asleep while resuscitating a motorcycle fatality was why they became a doctor in the first place. To have this taken away by bloody unions is a disgrace.
8. A survey of junior doctors carried out last year on the key challenges to their everyday working environment, found that top of the list was how frustrated our junior doctors were by the lack of vindictive and pathologically ambitious neoliberal poster boys to publicly and routinely denigrate them in the press.
Well well well, what's this? A private members bill snuck in to talk about removing ewtd protection from doctors.
Sure, it's all about improving doctors' lives with these guys...
Been away for a week & popped in to see what the Hunt and his mates had been up to in the meantime. You have to admit, that is treating people with top quality contempt 😆
Everybody's favourite -
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/2573911-Guest-debate-The-imposition-of-the-new-junior-doctor-contract