What needs to change in the NHS? Everything - Roger Watson ' | Robin Monotti Cory Morningstar

What needs to change in the NHS? Everything - Roger Watson

"THE NHS, a national obsession to which the country has been appended for decades, has become the emperor without clothes. It continues to be venerated yet disintegrates before us with a waiting list of more than six million, ambulance response times which are longer than some people take to run a marathon, advice to avoid A&E departments and to call 111 instead which many report as being ‘useless’. All against a backdrop of missed cancer and cardiac diagnoses. If you or a loved one have the misfortune to be admitted to hospital your chances of being visited or being able to visit are severely restricted. In some NHS Trusts, visiting is forbidden.

I have searched in vain for any evidence that the health systems in other countries have been similarly affected. In the USA they are concerned about increased costs of health care, but not about its availability. In Australia it seems that there is no problem making an appointment and seeing a doctor. In fact, Australians report being more satisfied with their health services now than pre-Covid.

Considering the international response to Covid-19, when some countries had far more draconian measures than we did in the UK, it is hard to understand what has happened to the NHS. Australia managed Covid-19 in an almost hysterical fashion second only in insanity to neighbouring New Zealand. In both countries elective surgeries were cancelled but I fail to see any evidence of a current backlog.

Here in the UK a myth, verging on a lie, is perpetuated that the NHS has all but ground to a halt due to the ‘coronavirus pandemic’ or the ‘Covid-19 crisis’ when, clearly, there is some other reason. On the one hand, no reference is made to the obvious fact that the measures introduced to ‘save the NHS’ have paradoxically compounded its failure. Who would have predicted that closing hospitals to all but the Covid-19 infected would store up problems for the future? All made much harder to swallow by the fact that the predicted lethality of Covid-19 was never achieved and that, as repeatedly demonstrated, none of the measures that were introduced had the slightest positive effect on the spread of the virus."

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/what-needs-to-change-in-the-nhs-everything/

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