Right, let me get this straight. Some part time surgeon, and Government arse-licker who got a peerage for playing tennis with Tony Blair, is announcing the end of traditional General Practice.
Two points to make for the edification of the Darzi Fuckwit:
1. Not every area can support a 'polyclinic' - there aren't enough patients to make it viable.
2. What the fuck happened to choice? Every fucking thing that Labour have done to screw up the NHS has been done in the name of 'ChoiceTM'. How about letting people decide which GP they register with - i.e 'choose', rather than be pontificated to from on high by a micromanaging control freak politburo.
All I can say is thank fuck they didn't make Lord Darzi the Minister for Breweries.......I'd have to go through all of this sober.
When I've calmed down a bit, Darzi's going to get both barrels. Until then, I'll leave you with some apt lyrics:
"You do nothing but socialise, and become a menace.
Put on your Reeboks man, and go play fucking tennis!"
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Darzi?
Is this the caridac surgeon bloke who mouthed Gordon Brown's words about getting rid of GP continuity of care?
Another bit of joined-up vote-grubbing?
Don't wait until you've calmed down, do it now. As the saying goes, 'strike while the iron is hot'.
People who know me personally hear me going off on a rant now and again. They don't always agree with the rant (fair enough), but they do always enjoy them - and by common consent, the best, most entertaining, rants are always straight off the top of my head and when steam is coming out of my ears.
When I was at school, the headmaster used to occasionally go off on a rant at morning assembly, to such an extent he used to literally foam at the mouth. Oh we kids did enjoy it when that happened.
And when I was a serviceman, sometimes a NCO would get going on a rant and really give someone a beasting. So enjoyable it really set you up for the day. Not so enjoyable for the poor sap on the receiving end, but great for the rest of us.
As Nike says "Just do it".
" In Brussels she is now being tipped for the justice or enterprise portfolios. An alternative is that she could be put in charge of the EU's expanding role in health policy. "
" The 60-year-old is a strong pro-European and is understood to have the support of both Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman, the Deputy Prime Minister, for the £200,000 a year post in the EU executive. "
That's right, your favourite ever Health Minister - our Patsy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/16/nhewitt116.xml
Anyone for Australia?
Just to set you up right for that rant you've promised us.
I look forward to your rant on the Darzi project.
The idea of "polyclinics" is one that negates to acnowledge two key issues:
1) Skills mix. A GP, somebody who is at the level of a consultant in any other field of medicine cannot be reliably replaced by any other person.
2) Polyclinics may indeed work well for minor illness. There have been Nurse lead minor injuries units working in my (admittedly rural) area for years now without too much fuss. The simple reason being that anyone with serious injuries/deterioration ends up having ambulance transport to the main A&E. However, the scope and skills mix (see point 1) simple will not equate.
Of course though, with the great NHS money saving going on, I guess Brown and Co think that patients are disposable.
While "no-one" often calls us socialist in the NHS, a chilling thourght occures from a quote from Stalin: "The death of one is a tragedy. The death of millions is just sadistic".
Mind you, here I am a qualified nurse now with my PIN number and no job. Not sure where he thinks these nurses to staff them will suddenly spring up from.
is it just me or does Darzi look like an alien?
Proberbly he is mutating after being infected by the government paracite. You mean you never heard of the subdural neurophone that the government place in tis minions to ruin the NHS?
Seriously though, I am surprised that as a medic, Darzi is not doing more to back up the medical profession. Odd that. There again, he did screw up healthcare on my native Teesside. Lord knows what national damage he will do.
What exactly does a tame surgeon know about General Practice? I have an experienced GP who would be happy to volunteer for a post as the government's newest minister - in charge of completely re-organising and restructuring surgical services in the NHS. I'm sure surgeons would receive this arrangement with the same enthusiasm as GPs have with Darzis contribution. I hope he and Chisholm and Fradd spent their 30 pieces of silver on something nice.
What next? A teacher employed to reform the armed forces? A TV chef as transport czar? A lawyer to run the country - oh, wait, we already had that. And look how well that has turned out!
Why they would get a surgeon to restructure primary care services, and not consult properly wiht hose of the front line seems bizarre.
All I can say is thank fuck I'm in Oz, and away from all this shite.
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Nursing student, you have misquoted the Man of Steel. It should read 'The death of one person is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic'
Somewhat changes the tone.
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