Gregory's Server@ChrisMayLA6 The logic seems straightforward to me. Take the NHS as an example. An NHS which uses more and more private resource will not cost us less as we still have to pay for everything we currently pay for but we also have to stump up for profits. As shown by water infrastructure, private big business is way more interested in bonuses than it is in investing in the business. So an NHS with more privatisation will cost more and get worse.
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 @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 very well put. And amply demonstrated by Englandβs experience with privatised water companies.  @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 When Labour comes to office it'll be full steam ahead for privatisation of the NHS according to Wes Streeting And if by some miracle the Torys get back in the NHS won't last the year We need to try for a coalition & get some of the smaller parties in office @staringatclouds @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 fingers cross Streeting loses his seat. Iβd love it if Lammy, Reeves and Starmer got binned too, but thatβs my Friday fantasy. I note Emily Matias and Lewis Goodall are also questioning whether Labour will be any different to the Tories @Lassielmr @staringatclouds @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6  @staringatclouds @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 that man is a traitor to the NHS and to Queers. I would send money to a campaign in his constituency for "Anyone But Wes", the gaslighting shallow prick..... @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 Whilst I am not in any way in favour of the privatization of healthcare services, the current privatization drive may nevertheless result in the massive slimming down of the hugely overweight bureaucracy currently absorbing a disproportionate percentage of the NHS budget! Hmmm... well, as I understand it, the bloated bureaucracy is directly linked to putting in places & maintaining the conditions for an 'internal market' in the NHS.... my guess is like US healthcare, more 'privitaisation' will result in more managers not less.... @Paulos_the_fog @ChrisMayLA6 A disproportionate percentage of the NHS budget is spent on servicing PFI debt. Yet another example of private sector taking from the NHS. Am not at all convinced anything will improve with yet more private involvement. @Paulos_the_fog @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 Managers make up just less than 3% of NHS workforce. Recent research by Institute for Public Policy Research suggested that the healthcare sector is under-managed, and this increases the burden of bureaucracy that falls on frontline professionals. @Lassielmr @Paulos_the_fog @IndyRichard Thanks, a little counter-intuitive, but I'm sure that's right - so then the Q. is what sort of management is actually taking place - clinical administration, or the required admin to make the 'internal market' work?  @Lassielmr @Paulos_the_fog @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 Excellent so all those middle managers universities don't need could move into the NHS and solve two problems at once. |
@IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 they don't care how much it costs, as long as they can cream off tax payers money into their offshore accounts.