toonsy:
The problem is there’s never any long term plan for improvement. The NHS still uses fax machines ffs! But while the government of the day are quick to point out any increase in spending, its never done with a solid long term plan and every decision is based not on the best long term interest of the country but what is the best decision based on where we are in the election cycle.Something long term that can be looked at is support for training costs - a bursary if you like - so a nurse or doctor could get “sponsored” through university rather than being saddled with 60k of student debt for a wage. That is a massive barrier to getting newly qualified into the NHS, and doctors.
There something wrong when a ming ■■■■ who carts kitchen worktops around, or tins of coke around or whatever, is able to command wages that are above what a nurse who provides vital care in some of our, or our families, most neediest moments, who have taken years to study to be “newly qualified” versus a week with some old bloke in an old supermarket spec wagon.
In a way it is what it is, market forces and that, but obviously the pandemic taught nobody anything about the value of some workers and some seem quick to turn against the nurses, the railway workers (note NOT train drivers as the media try and paint), the bin men, the ambulance workers, and all those whose absence would actually prevent a service being delivered while all those slimy middle management types, politicians, jobs with no meaning worked from home, or got furloughed, saved a fortune doing so, and now sneer at those they manage.
What a pathetic country we are.
So exactly how does the truck driver or factory worker afford health care for themselves and their family in a system whereby doctors and nurses earn much more for their job ?.Something has to give.
Its clear that our system is based on the worst of all worlds combination of let em die rationing and screwing health care workers to keep wages low for the employer classes.
As opposed to Germany where they reached the correct conclusion that everyone has to earn enough to pay for and to provide decent health care.
