Just to be clear, this is not him saying he wants to abolish the NHS.
NHS England is an organisation that oversees the health service but Starmer wants it to be brought under the department of health.
The bigger problem, and this isn’t in the mainstream news yet, is that all integrated care boards have been told to reduce head count by 50% in December. I just got off an all hands briefing earlier today.
It’s probably good, except there will be no quality oversight and private providers will be able to run riot, as there will be no one there check they are doing what they are paid to do.
Wait . . that’s good, right? “NHS England” is a separate entity charged with running the NHS which the government essentially does anyway?
Wait . . that’s good, right?
It sounds like he’s just using the consolidation to downsize staff and reduce the budget, rather than reallocate resources to primary care.
Farage must be pissing his trousers from glee.
They aren’t axing healthcare rather the bureaucracy that oversees it and isn’t doing a good job.
I am aware they’re not dismantling healthcare now. Bureaucracy is a common excuse for a crawling privatisation. They’ll optimise here, cost reduce there. Once bureaucracy is gone it’s easy to remove context and say we just can’t afford those expensive treatments (“Overstretched, unfocused, trying to do too much, doing it badly,”). Social contracts will be broken and people will vote for fascists.
I thought these guys were supposed to be left wing? Not neoliberals “cutting” by gutting things?
“Supposed” if they’d ever looked at their parties name in the last 40 years, maybe. But just like the “Social democrats” and the “Christian democrats” in Germany these names have meant nothing for a looong time.
