The number of patients not being treated within the NHS waiting-time limit has soared by 43% since the coalition took office, official figures show.
Interesting. The Daily Mail chooses to dedicate its leader on healthcare, but from a different angle :
[url= http://www.****/debate/article-2089142/Health-unions-care-themselves.html?ito=feeds-newsxml ]Health unions care only for themselves[/url]
They seem apparently very concerned that threaten industrial action by the British Medical Association would lead to countless operations and appointments being cancelled.
So I'm assuming that if any industrial action by the BMA caused an increase in the number of patients not being treated within the NHS waiting-time limit waiting-time by, say 10%, they would be furious. If it caused an increase of 21.5% they would be seething with anger. And if it caused an increase of 43%, the Daily Mail leader writers would be ready to explode.
But if a bunch of ex-Bullingdon Club vandals are responsible for the number of patients not being treated within the NHS waiting-time limit to increase by 43%, then it doesn't even warrant a comment.
Go on strike and you're selfish and don't care about anyone but yourself, but kick the country in the guts and make ordinary people pay for the cock-ups of your greedy incompetent banker, spiv, and speculator mates, and it's coz you care.
And people fall for that crap - which goes a long way in explaining why the country is in such a mess.
deviant - MemberJunkyard, the numbers are comparable....its why private firms are taking so many NHS contracts at the moment (and were doing so long before this Government)....because they are able to approach the PCTs and undercut the NHS tenders.
Nope - the numbers are fiddled because if they are not there is no chance of teh private healthcare being granted contacts as they are almost always more expensive
One major cost omitted - the cost of training the staff tht thy poach.
there are assumptions made about NHS costs that deliberately and artifically inflate them to make it look cheaper to have private contracts.
teh extra managerial costs of these reform are not considered either