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| Topic Started: Nov 22 2015, 08:19 PM (506 Views) | |
| Jonksy | Nov 22 2015, 08:19 PM Post #1 |
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You’ve been asked to have your say on the NHS. You just don’t know about it Oh dear do you think they were worried about what peeps preferred.? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/19/nhs-mandate-england-consulation-deadline |
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| Deleted User | Nov 23 2015, 06:33 PM Post #41 |
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Researchers say the main reason for low survival rates in the UK seems to be delayed diagnosis, underuse of successful treatments and unequal access to treatment, particularly among elderly people. However, patient factors are not accounted for, such as the level of smoking, alcohol misuse and poor diet in the UK. It could be the case that poor cancer care in the UK is not solely to blame for the below average cancer survival rates, but may also be related to the factors listed above. OK so the best way to reduce delayed diagnosis and promote equal access to treatment is to charge patients to see their doctors and make them contribute towards their treatment?
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| Jonksy | Nov 23 2015, 08:36 PM Post #42 |
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Wasn't hospital parking charges going to be used to bolster NHS finances? Private firms getting up to 100% of profits from hospital parking: Companies walking away with millions patients wrongly believe is being invested in vital treatment http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3037724/Private-firms-getting-100-profits-hospital-parking-Companies-walking-away-millions-patients-wrongly-believe-invested-vital-treatment.html#ixzz3sLhFlmPe |
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| Tigger | Nov 23 2015, 08:47 PM Post #43 |
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Perhaps you are unaware of the costs involved in running a car park? Firstly you need a grumpy and unhelpful pensioner to patrol the place and harass sick people, then you need someone to empty the ticket machines, and if you think vehicle licence plate recognition software writes itself and automatic fine billing is child's play you have another thing coming. And it's always wise to make sure the hospital pays for any illumination in the evening. A few thousand pounds a week is nothing to a parasitical wankstain "businessman" who runs a very important sector of the high tech and booming er...economy. |
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| Steve K | Nov 23 2015, 08:53 PM Post #44 |
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Indeed
This very recent OECD link to an Excel file may help http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/OECD-Health-Statistics-2015-Frequently-Requested-Data.xls Seems outside of the third world only Estonia has lower than the UK which supports your point However several seem higher in public expenditure per capita (although they do use a $PPP modifier) |
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| Steve K | Nov 23 2015, 08:57 PM Post #45 |
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Wouldn't reading an expert view make sense From requests for glasses to concerns over colds, it’s frustrating when people book GP appointments unnecessarily and it undermines our work
But then he's only a GP |
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| Deleted User | Nov 23 2015, 09:11 PM Post #46 |
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Expert or not this...I have also had patients return after 24 hours to complain that their cold had not cleared despite being clearly told that it could take 7-10 days and reminded that antibiotics do not work on viral illnesses. is either bollocks or is presented out of context. Any surgery that would allow a patient to book an appointment in those circumstances just 24 hours after an initial appointment is hardly busy. At best they are going back to the surgery only to get an ear full from the receptionist. There is a lack of awareness about what GPs do. I have had bizarre requests from patients including a request for me to “prescribe” new shoes for a woman from Afghanistan and a man from Slovakia asking me for a prescription for new glasses. Requests to prescribe (yet to be invented) “energy boosting medication” are not uncommon either. Well once again he doesnt say how often this occurs but in our surgery you need to tell the receptionist roughly what the problem is if you want a quick appointment and if you ask for glasses or shoes she will gently lead you into the right direction. I am not sure that the article has any great value. Just a GP pointing out some annoying traits of his patients not an evaluation of how much actual time is wasted by them. |
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| Affa | Nov 23 2015, 09:46 PM Post #47 |
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Of course! There is also some question as to its accuracy/integrity ........
If he had said 'a patient' instead of the plural I would not doubt his word .... but he's obviously egging it up. |
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| skwirked | Nov 23 2015, 09:50 PM Post #48 |
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One gp's opinion wow, I could get other opinions. Are you going to provide proof that charges to see drs make fiscal sense in the long run or just another 'wild arsed guess'? |
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| Deleted User | Nov 23 2015, 09:55 PM Post #49 |
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My surgery texts you 24 hours before an appointment. Makes you phone in at a certain time for urgent appointments and has online appointments available for three or four weeks ahead. They also have an online surgery where you tell rhem your symptoms and they advise you via email. I dont know how widespread this stuff is. |
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| Rich | Nov 23 2015, 10:02 PM Post #50 |
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I have spoken to my wife on more than one occasion regarding GP's surgery's, she is the office manager at our local Surgery, she tells me that DNA's (did not arrive) are an every day occurrence, along with trivial matters that could have been dealt with over the phone, they also have a system whereby the computer automaticall texts the "patient" on the morning of the day of their appontment to remind them, this also fails to make them come in at times. The surgery opens at 0800 and closes at 2000 hrs, their are queues outside the door when she gets there at 0715 and sometime she too does not finish until 1900 and at this time of year I pick her up as it is dark and cold. Sometimes the locum doctors do not turn up and the backlog very quickly builds up meaning that other doctors have to share the load, there are 10500 patients on the books with only 5 fulltime doctors and 3 locums, 3 nurses and 2 triages, the car park is a nightmare. the surgery has been without a practise manager for several months now and my wife has to try and juggle both jobs as well as keep the doctors in line (no easy task) I have tried to explain to her that stress is like electricity, you cannot see it and it can kill, but she carries on doggedly and hopes that things will improve.
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| skwirked | Nov 23 2015, 10:08 PM Post #51 |
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Some more facts then. http://www.gponline.com/patients-miss-5-appointments-gp-practices/article/1359317 - 5% of all appts missed 2015 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/expat-health/11384780/Netherlands-tops-health-care-rankings-with-UK-in-14th-place.html - uk performance lags |
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| Deleted User | Nov 23 2015, 10:11 PM Post #52 |
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I can only convey my genuine admiration for your wife Rich.She and others like her are the backbone of the NHS. Your post describes a difficult situation but not one that is entirely the patients fault and one that I can ( as a patient) relate to. |
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| Affa | Nov 23 2015, 10:22 PM Post #53 |
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Got to smile ...... when reading that 'locum doctors' are also frequently DNAs. |
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| RJD | Nov 24 2015, 09:45 AM Post #54 |
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Thank you. Saved me some time. Undertaking a few sums gives us Current Health Expenditure per capita, US$ purchasing power parity (2014) Denmark $4553 85.2% = $3879 France $4124 77.7% = $3204 Germany $4819 77.2% = $3720 Italy $3077 Holland $5131 85.8% = $4402 Sweden $4904 81.2% = $3982 Switzerland $6325 65.8% = $4161 UK $3235 USA $8713 48.6% = $4324 I do not have the factor for the UK, but suspect it is ~95% State funded. Here we see the amount the State spends per capita from taxes and clearly that is a lot less than most others. However it is also true that most others see a greater contribution from other sources. My point that with the parlous state of the economy little more can be obtained from the State to make up the gap and I see no reason why dogma should be put in the way of obtaining additional funding from other sources than just taxation. |
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| RJD | Nov 24 2015, 10:21 AM Post #55 |
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Very useful file. I have drilled down a bit further: Public Expenditure on health as a % of total expenditure (2013 or nearest) Denmark 84.3% France 78.7% Germany 76.3% Italy 77.4% Holland 87.6% Norway 85% Spain 71.5% Sweden 84.1% Switzerland 66.1% UK 83.3% USA 48.2% Must admit to being very surprised by the UK figure which I thought a lot higher. |
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| Steve K | Nov 24 2015, 12:45 PM Post #56 |
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same here I got their 2013 UK figure per capita of state funded to be $2802 PPP (Purchasing power parity) and 87% of all UK healthcare But UKpublicspending tell me in 2013 population was 63.488 million and Health spend £124,259 million and that's £1,957 per capita or $3204 at the year end exchange rate of 1.6373 So PPP seems to introduce a 14% distortion
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| papasmurf | Nov 24 2015, 12:53 PM Post #57 |
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Interesting chart on page 2 of this. The UK is well down the spending list (I can't copy and paste from pdf files, if someone has that ability please feel free:- Figure 2. Health spending (excluding investment) as a share of GDP, OECD countries, 2013 http://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/Focus-Health-Spending-2015.pdf |
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| skwirked | Nov 24 2015, 12:57 PM Post #58 |
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Holland has the best outcomes and its public spending is the highest of the lot listed. Edited by skwirked, Nov 24 2015, 12:58 PM.
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| Steve K | Nov 24 2015, 01:24 PM Post #59 |
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Yes posting images from pdf is so long winded and life is too short I believe this is effectively the same data though as I saw this on route to the OECD data
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| papasmurf | Nov 24 2015, 01:27 PM Post #60 |
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Cheers, same data used. |
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| RJD | Nov 24 2015, 01:36 PM Post #61 |
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But as we know spending per GDP is not the evidence required, it is spending per capita that counts as that is supposed real money spent on counted real individuals. Saying we must have to spend a greater greater portion of GDP that Chickycafurka is just a macho statement. Yes conversions from currencies will distort results as they attempt to find a method of normalisation, also the count of what is or what is not in the public or private accounts across countries will be a grey rather than black and white decision, but one can judge the drift of things. Yes many find it good or acceptable to get the private providers to contribute more. |
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| RJD | Nov 24 2015, 01:38 PM Post #62 |
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An additional note: looking at the graphic baldly would indicate that the USA is top of the League when it comes to health provision and we know that is not true. |
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| papasmurf | Nov 24 2015, 01:41 PM Post #63 |
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Another interesting table:- http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/total-expenditure-on-health-per-capita_20758480-table2 Edited by papasmurf, Nov 24 2015, 01:42 PM.
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| papasmurf | Nov 24 2015, 01:45 PM Post #64 |
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and another one:- The underfunded NHS seems to be doing rather well.
Edited by papasmurf, Nov 24 2015, 01:47 PM.
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| skwirked | Nov 24 2015, 02:02 PM Post #65 |
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Old data that shows bad outcomes re 'healthy lives'. |
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| papasmurf | Nov 24 2015, 02:11 PM Post #66 |
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A bit difficult to counter bad outcome re healthy lives:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34777348 Malnutrition causing thousands of hospital admissions By Helen Carter & Daniel Wainwright BBC News 23 November 2015 |
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| Tytoalba | Nov 24 2015, 03:25 PM Post #67 |
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The Government has just announced that there will be another 4 billion pounds additional for the NHS. No talk of privatisation or additional fees there. I like to see them shooting the Labour party rabbits before they are released.
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| papasmurf | Nov 24 2015, 03:42 PM Post #68 |
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That does not mean the sneaky underhanded bastards aren't planning it or are already in negotiations about it. |
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| skwirked | Nov 24 2015, 03:42 PM Post #69 |
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I've been one of them (not a joke). Unpleasant illnesses. |
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| RJD | Nov 24 2015, 03:47 PM Post #70 |
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If doing rather well then why the need for more funds and why are cancer outcomes not top of the league? "Rather well" is just another one of those fuzzy meaningless statements. Considering there is going to be ~£2b shortfall this year 2015/16, so they claim, then this increase in budget will soon be swallowed up. I would like to see the efficiency gains promised by the NHS Bosses. Where are they? |
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| ACH1967 | Nov 24 2015, 03:52 PM Post #71 |
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There is nothing remotely fuzzy about interpreting all the "1"'s in that diagram as doing rather well.
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| papasmurf | Nov 24 2015, 04:19 PM Post #72 |
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Quite. I expect he does not like his hero countries doing rather badly. |
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| jaguar | Nov 24 2015, 07:26 PM Post #73 |
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Since 1948 the NHS has survived Tory governments. It survived 18 consecutive years of Tory governments and under Thatcher, for 11 of those years, there was just as much right wing agenda as now. The only difference is that New Labour set in motion the PFI which is costing it dear now. So, considering that since the NHS was created we have had a conservative government way more times that any other, the NHS is still here, doing more than it has ever done before, and is receiving more funding than at any time in its history. I have no reason to believe it will not be well looked after. Private involvement in the NHS grew more under Labour than the Tories. Does that mean Labour destroyed the NHS more than the Tories? So to sum up, there was more privatisation on Labour than the Tories. Labour voted against spending increases for the NHS, also bearing in mind Labour has taken the NHS in Wales to the brink. Why should anyone trust Labour with the NHS? |
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| Deleted User | Nov 24 2015, 08:15 PM Post #74 |
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Depends what Labour. New Labour was different from the Labour party of the 60s/70s .IMO it was further to the right than the Tory party led by Heath. |
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| Tytoalba | Nov 24 2015, 10:53 PM Post #75 |
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Nor does it mean that the are. |
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| Affa | Nov 24 2015, 11:21 PM Post #76 |
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£3.8bn I believe .......... and on the same day announce £12bn for defence spending to combat the threat of Islamic terrorism. A thread was started asking if the UK, we the people, should be afraid of IS. I think this spend is proof that the government is more afraid of IS than it is of the NHS collapsing. |
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